Help Restart Sigma Phi at Cornell and Michigan

Phi has a timely opportunity to re-start strong chapters at two flagship universities:

Cornell and the University of Michigan. Both efforts are moving forward now, but success depends on quickly identifying the right people. We need to connect Sigma Phi with motivated students and responsible graduate-level or young alumni leaders in Ithaca and Ann Arbor to ensure these chapters restart on a solid footing.

Specifically, we are asking for referrals, introductions, or self-identification from those who may be a good fit.

What the chapters are looking for

• Names of current undergraduates (freshmen or sophomores) or incoming freshmen

  who may be interested in participating in a restart of Sigma Phi at Cornell or Michigan during the 2026–27 school year. These students would be candidates to live in the respective chapter houses during the 2027–28 school year.
  

• Graduate students or young alumni who may be willing to help with new member recruitment efforts at each campus and (at Michigan) to serve in a house stewardship role during the 2026–27 school year.

University of Michigan additional detail At Michigan, graduate student involvement may also include a house stewardship

component, with the following parameters:

• House stewardship responsibilities for interested graduate students will be reasonable, clearly defined, and compatible with graduate study. Depending on circumstances, highly subsidized (potentially free) housing arrangements may be available.
  

• There is no predetermined cap on the number of graduate brothers who may participate; housing arrangements will be structured based on group size and stewardship responsibilities.

Contact – Karl Gigante, M’86, President, Alpha of Michigan Alumni Board,

(313) 671-4082 | karl.gigante@gmail.com

Cornell additional detail

Contact – Glenn R. George, C’82, President, Epsilon Association, Inc. (Cornell Alumni of

Sigma Phi) (215) 620-0355 | ggeorge001@yahoo.com

Timing Matters

Students entering both undergraduate and graduate programs in the fall are actively

finalizing school and housing decisions now. The window to connect with the right

individuals—before commitments are locked in—is short.

Even a single name or introduction could make a meaningful difference.