Fraternity Men Are Best Suited for Today’s World
Every spring, I watch another class of young men cross stages, shake hands, and step into the next phase of their lives. As President and CEO of the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), I have had a front-row seat to this moment for two decades. This year, the young men graduating will face an even […]
Commentary: Raising a young man in 2026 isn’t easy
Raising a young man in 2026 is not easy. Most young men describe life as stressful, pressured, and uncertain. When an 18-year-old leaves home for college, those feelings only intensify. Many parents search desperately for the magic formula: something that will help their newly adult children overcome isolation, find purpose, and set them on an upward trajectory […]
Fraternity CEO: Rutgers hazing case becomes test of whether Greek life can police itself.
In October 2025, several students at Rutgers University engaged in a late-night hazing activity that endangered the life of a new member. The conduct was particularly unconscionable given that these former members of Alpha Sigma Phi had completed comprehensive anti-hazing training mere weeks earlier. Their deliberate circumvention of the fraternity’s medical amnesty policy represented not simply a […]
Opinion: I was a COVID kid. My fraternity has made all the difference.
Growing up as an only child wasn’t bad — just quiet. No chaotic Saturday mornings, no backyard tackle football, no older sibling to show me the ropes, no hand-me-downs. Small losses, maybe, but they added up. I learned early on that, even absent siblings, I come alive around people, whether it be through school or […]
Digital isolation is crushing young men — fraternities hold a proven solution
Throughout recent decades, the gender conversation in the West has blamed one consistent villain: men. When times were good, masculinity was dismissed as an unearned privilege. When times turned darker, it was rebranded as toxic. Beneath every hashtag and viral moment, the same warning echoed: collectively and individually, men are an impediment to women’s safety, prosperity and […]
In Praise of Fraternities
To an alarming extent, American men are afflicted with loneliness. Social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have increasingly supplanted meaningful human connections, while limitless access to gambling and pornography have deepened men’s isolation and eroded their mental health. Worsening matters is the loss of male friendship. A 2021 American Perspectives survey reported that 15 percent of […]
For Men’s Health Month: A Greater Focus on Living Charitably
In June, the U.S. commemorates Men’s Health Month, a time to consider the unique needs of males. In recent years, this has thankfully included a focus on mental health, a long-overlooked facet of well-being, especially for boys and men. Unfortunately, this sudden interest is due in part to the fact that America’s men face real […]
I’m a Gay, First-Generation College Student. My Fraternity is Where I Belong
Modern culture pays a lot of attention to demographics. Everywhere you turn, people are classified, arranged into groups according to characteristics and factors they largely don’t choose for themselves. Stereotypes, no matter how untrue or unfair, are a common part of our everyday lives. I’m a first-generation American born to working class Mexican immigrants. I’m […]
Fraternities Are a Cure for What Ails Higher Education
Greek culture stands for patriotism, civility and camaraderie, virtues embodied by the courageous young men who defended the flag at UNC. Fraternities and sororities have long gotten a bad rap. Those who dislike Greek life would have the public believe that sordid stories of hazing are typical. In reality, the overwhelming majority of fraternity and […]
The Post-Pandemic College Experience Needs Greek Life
Your recent article, “Why Campus Life Fell Apart” (The Chronicle, January 26), examines post-pandemic student engagement as a key to both retention and graduation. Their piece failed to note one of the greatest programs which retains college students generally but especially after Covid-19: fraternity and sorority life. In Summer 2020, Ronald Yates, a math professor at […]