The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life is launching a pilot program for FSL housing at Quinnipiac University beginning at the start of the 2025-2026 academic year.
FSL housing will be located in the Crescent suite-style dorm building on the York Hill Campus.
Sixteen of the 22 FSL organizations were invited to participate in the program. The organizations were either given one or two suites based on their size.
Fraternity and sorority leadership were presented with the idea this past summer, according to senior criminal justice major and Kappa Delta Sorority President Isabella Celiberti.
“I think it would be a really good opportunity for people to make friends and just get to know each other a little bit better and spend time with each other outside of chapter on Sunday,” Celiberti said.
Pi Beta Phi Sorority President and graduate public relations student Morgan Bloom agrees with Celiberti’s sentiment.
“I think one of the benefits that I could see it having is just bringing people together from different organizations,” Bloom said. “Right now, there are some chances for people in sororities and fraternities to meet each other and talk with each other, but they’re pretty limited.”
Many universities are moving towards on-campus housing for FSL, according to Avery Moses, director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Quinnipiac. The university is on its way to becoming one of those schools.
“They’ve identified that this provides these groups with the necessary space to call their own while eliminating the added elements of an off campus/privately owned house,” Moses said.
Celiberti said that FSL organizations having their own private space is a key benefit of the program.
“So if there was any small group meetings that we had to have, we wouldn’t have to book a room outside of a classroom,” Celiberti said.“We could book it in our own room. We could have the meeting in there instead of having to find a space.”
FSL members emphasized how the program would bring them together and strengthen relationships between organizations.
“I feel like there’s, there’s not too much of a connection between fraternities … that’s something that they’re always striving for, but fraternity to fraternity relations are something that always could be worked on,” said Izaias Sardo, sophomore finance major and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. “I feel like it’s a great opportunity.” Sardo is living in the Beta Theta Pi suite next year.
Bloom also mentioned that it would be a good chance for FSL members to have a “communal experience.”
“Having these friendships that could be potentially built is going to do a great thing for that,” Sardo said. It’ll actually kind of give incentive to it, because not like you’re going to an event with a bunch of random guys, it’ll be like you’re going to an event with, like your neighbors.”
The program will not negatively affect housing for non-FSL students.
“This pilot will impact unaffiliated students positively, as it will open more favorable and sought-after residential spaces as the current spaces where FSL affiliated members live are spread across campus, while this will be centralized on York Hill,” Moses said.
Bloom described how the suites given to FSL are “typically ones that people don’t love to get.”
Moses also mentioned how the housing will free up bookable meeting spaces on campus because FSL meetings could be held in their new private spaces.
“Recognizing the high demand for on-campus housing, our goal is to maximize utilization while avoiding vacancies,” Moses said. “If the pilot is successful, there may be more suites added to the fraternity/sorority block, as well as additional pilots for other affinity groups, depending on student interest, collected data, and overall housing occupancy.”
There is a chance for expansion in the future if the program is successful. However, there are no current plans for expansion of the FSL housing program until it is run and assessed.
