{"id":15307,"date":"2025-09-09T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=15307"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:50:57","slug":"tau-kappa-epsilon-expecting-largest-recruitment-class-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/09\/09\/tau-kappa-epsilon-expecting-largest-recruitment-class-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tau Kappa Epsilon expecting largest recruitment class in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Ryan Talton \u201927, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fraternity at LVC is setting itself up for a comeback after years of low recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As rush week approaches, Collin Schick, Tau Kappa Epsilon\u2019s new rush chair, is learning from past mistakes to make this year\u2019s recruitment class the chapter\u2019s largest in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEspecially in the past two years or so, recruitment classes have been really small, and a lot of our recruitment has been upper classmen, so member turnover has been really high,\u201d Schick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schick gave insight into his plan to turn around slow recruitment after holding the position for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking to recruit earlier, get a recruitment process started earlier, so that we can make a bigger connection with more of these guys that are either freshman or sophomores or others that we don\u2019t know as well\u201d Schick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite not being able to directly recruit first-year students, Schick is optimistic about recruitment this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m predicting a ten-man class, hopefully higher, but I think that\u2019s a safe bet,\u201d Schick said about his predictions for this year\u2019s recruitment. \u201cAnd then in the spring, I\u2019m hoping for a larger class of hopefully fifteen, including freshmen and others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schick encourages any male student interested in joining Tau Kappa Epsilon to reach out to the chapter on Instagram at either tke_px or collinschick52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Ryan Talton \u201927, staff writer A fraternity at LVC is setting itself up for a comeback after years of low recruitment. As rush week approaches, Collin Schick, Tau Kappa Epsilon\u2019s new rush chair, is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/09\/09\/tau-kappa-epsilon-expecting-largest-recruitment-class-in-years\/\" title=\"Tau Kappa Epsilon expecting largest recruitment class in years\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-front-page","9":"category-homepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15378,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307\/revisions\/15378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}