Safety & Accountability

Over the last five years, Indiana University has made changes to its Sorority and Fraternity policies and programming to make campus safer, including:

• Elimination of hard alcohol at Sorority and Fraternity social events
• Required guest lists for all events that involve alcohol.
• Creation of a required Event Monitor Training for sorority and fraternity members.
• Required professional live-in resident advisors for all housed chapters.
• Educational programming focused on drugs and alcohol, sexual violence prevention, and bystander intervention.

All sororities and fraternities have chapter advisors that are trained by their inter/national sorority or fraternity and are responsible for actively advising the chapter leaders and members. Chapter advisors are expected to attend educational workshops and trainings provided by the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life. Organizations are required to submit the names and contact information for all chapter advisors to the university annually.

In addition to chapter advisors, sororities and fraternities are also required to have at least one IU faculty or staff advisor, as outlined in IU’s Student Organization Policies. Housed sororities and fraternities are required to have a professional, live-in advisor, as outlined in the University Recognized Housing Policy.