When you joined SigEp, you entered a brotherhood that, as our founders said in 1901, “will be different.” If you’ve brushed up on our history like I have, you know Sigma Phi Epsilon is also the “Fraternity of Firsts.” Time and again, we’ve proven this Fraternity is different through bold and impactful decisions and innovative clarity of vision. I’d like to ask you to participate in our plans that will lead to SigEp’s next first — Raise Your Bar: A Strategic Plan for Every SigEp. Our objective is clear — we will be the largest and best fraternity on every campus where the SigEp flag is planted.

Today, and in the coming years, I’d like to ask for your support in achieving that bold goal. The Fraternity’s leaders set this goal because we believe that today, college-aged men are at a crossroads. They are falling behind in academic performance, mental health, relationship building and professional preparedness.

SigEp can and will bring more men inside the walls of our welcoming chapter homes and SigEp Learning Community spaces — where development, in-person connection, friendship and brotherhood are alive and well. Through our chapter experience centered on the Balanced Man Program and national leadership events, we will raise a generation of men who go on to lead their communities after college.

Raise Your Bar: A Strategic Plan for Every SigEp calls for increased financial investment and unprecedented volunteer support. It challenges us to meet the needs of this and future generations of young men with development opportunities that are essential to success. It demands that we grow and share the SigEp experience with more men than ever before in our history.

If you haven’t been connected to the Fraternity recently, I ask that you get reconnected. Make sure your contact information is up to date on mySigEp.org. Attend events at your chapter and make connections with alumni in your area. Consider making a gift this Nov. 1 on Founders Day of Giving, or consider the rewarding experience of mentoring undergraduates at your home chapter or a chapter near you (sigep.org/volunteers).

Our new strategic plan demands the involvement of every SigEp, and it is for each of us. I’m working with our National Board of Directors — and relying on all of our 250,000 alumni — to pursue the peak performance that will make us the largest and best fraternity. I hope you’ll join us, in whatever way you’re able, in supporting SigEp’s bold vision.

Brad Nahrstadt, Monmouth ’89
Grand President