As your son transitions into college life at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, many challenges and opportunities await. Along with rigorous coursework, your son will have the choice to be involved in a vast array of campus activities and groups. Among those groups are college fraternities.
Simply put, a fraternity is an organization of men bound together by friendship, aspirations, and common goals. At UNCC your son will find many opportunities to get involved in an array of different fraternities, whether they are solely based on academic honorary, academic major, community service, religion, ethnicity; or whether they are social fraternities such as Kappa Sigma.
Far too often a parent may have a preconceived notion that a fraternity is based purely on an "animal house" party atmosphere. It is not within Kappa Sigma's ideals to promote the “party”, but instead our four cornerstones of Fellowship, Leadership, Scholarship, and Service. Through these principles a male student will enhance his college career and become a better man for joining the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Kappa Sigma encourages members to become highly involved in campus activities and student organizations, both as participants and leaders. In addition, Kappa Sigma’s commitment to local and national philanthropy and community service inspires our brothers to reach beyond the UNC Charlotte campus to the fulfill the needs of their community and their world.
If you son so chooses to consider membership in Kappa Sigma here at UNCC you as a a parent will find your son meeting a whole new social circle which will put him in contact with various student leaders, teachers, and alumni in the community. As your son begins his membership in Kappa Sigma, he will initially begin as a pledge. The term pledge is in no way meant as a degrading term, but as a term to describe his period of membership in which he evaluates Kappa Sigma. During the pledging process, your son will be considered a prospective member and will undergo a pledging period.
At the end of the pledging process, your son will be asked by the chapter if he would like to join the members and undergo initiation. In no way is the initiation to be construed as hazing or degrading, but rather the opportunity for the pledge to learn the founding and history of Kappa Sigma. Again, your son will be given a choice of which he is free to choose from; and his answer will be respected.
As a National fraternity and as a chapter here a UNCC we have a strict No-Hazing policy. We require that all members, pledges, initiates, undergraduates and alumnus abide by a strict Code of Conduct that is set forth by our National Headquarters in Charlottesville, VA.