Prevention, Outreach and Education Department
Office for Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance
Program Description
The Greeks Take the Lead Program is a mandatory workshop series for all fraternity and sorority chapters that are currently registered student organizations (RSOs) or are hoping to become a RSO. The Greeks Take the Lead Program serves as a way to help fraternity and sorority students feel empowered by providing further education on how they can intervene and end sexual violence in their chapters and greater community. All chapter presidents and a council member involved in risk reduction (or a leadership member interested in risk reduction) participate in leadership-based interactive trainings and all general members are required to choose a workshop focused on a specialized topic.
The "Greeks Take the Lead" Program serves to:
Information about current offerings for credit will be communicated out to members of the FSL community directly each semester. If you did not receive this information or are having trouble accessing it, please email gttl@msu.edu for assistance.
You can either contact your chapter President for the registration form or visit the site provided at the start of each semester for the most up to date information regarding workshops.
Greeks Take the Lead is offering an array of workshops on different days and times to accommodate varying schedules. We encourage you to register as soon as possible, as workshops will close once they meet capacity. Do not wait until the last workshop is offered, as it will fill up quickly. Makeup sessions are not offered.
No, Greeks Take the Lead is a specialized training that is a different requirement from a student's annual RVSM training requirement. Students who are assigned their RVSM Prevention training through Ability, should still attended as required. Required trainings would include SARV, Bystander Network, and Undergraduate Online Prevention Refresher course.
Yes. Please email gttl@msu.edu to express your concern and we will send you information about alternative education for the Greeks Take the Lead program.
Sessions are offered in both Fall and Spring semesters, and each student is required to attend one session per academic year. Therefore, if a student attends a session in Fall semester, their requirement is complete through Spring semester.
Yes, two leaders from your chapter (most often, a President and a Risk Manager) must attend at least one of the special leadership trainings provided at the start of the Spring semester in order for your chapter to maintain or regain their RSO status. Failure to attend these sessions compromises your chapter’s RSO status.
Contact your chapter president. They have access to your chapter’s attendance record for Greeks Take the Lead and will be able to let you know if you received credit.
If you need accommodations to attend your workshop, please email gttl@msu.edu as soon as possible before your workshop date. Please contact our staff at least 14 days prior to your workshop to allow time to implement your request.
For the 2021-22 academic year, all general member sessions (except for the keynote session) will be recorded and shared virtually with fraternity and sorority members. Contact your chapter president for detailed instructions on how to engage with recorded sessions for credit on D2L.
Email your question to gttl@msu.edu to contact a POE Prevention Specialist.