Longwood University IFC

03/20/2024

TODAY is the day! Please consider supporting the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life’s campaign during

12/05/2023

Bill Fiege, the school's chief academic officer, was named the college's eighth president Monday.

11/23/2023

Join us by giving thanks !

11/20/2023

Recruitment will be here shortly! Sign up today!!

07/29/2023

03/30/2023

FSL Alumni Newsletter - Spring 2023

03/30/2023

https://youtu.be/1nh69kzXkps

COMMCast is a student production of Longwood University where we talk to members of the COMMunity, past, present, and future. Julie Ramsey is the Director of...

12/29/2022

As we prepare to welcome students back to Farmville, this week we are highlighting some of the new faces around campus. Whether it’s a new academic dean, new professor, or new staff member, these individuals are ready to hit the ground running as we begin the new academic year. Some have long Longwood roots, while some bring a brand new perspective. We are happy to welcome them into the Longwood community. 💙
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For 22-year-old me, this was my dream job. Ever since I graduated from Longwood in 1993 I wanted to be working in fraternity and sorority life. But life had other plans and, for one reason or another, I couldn’t get into it. Now I’m at a place in my life where my children are in college or have graduated from college and I had the freedom to apply for that dream job.

Previously I worked at Old Dominion University. I was the program coordinator of Monarch Teach, so I worked with the math and science majors who were getting teaching licenses. I was a math teacher for 17 years. I got my master’s degree in higher education at ODU. While I was working on my master’s degree I got a teaching job. But I kept volunteering for my sorority and kept involved in the fraternity and sorority world.

My daughter, Madison Levine ‘22, just graduated from Longwood this past May. She works for the Target Distribution Center in Suffolk. My husband and I own a couple of properties here in Farmville so the whole plan was to retire here. I had been joking with Tim Pierson that I had a five-year plan and he needed to help find me a job. I keep telling people he took my five-year plan and made it a five-week plan. I was the first student Tim met at Longwood when he arrived in 1992, so this is a very full-circle moment for me. I am excited to work with the students in general. They come with what they think are problems and they just need to talk it through with you. Sometimes students need a supporter and cheerleader—to feel like someone is in their corner.

In many ways, this is a lot like coming home. After I graduated from Longwood I worked for my sorority, Alpha Sigma Alpha, at the national level. I was a leadership consultant so I was traveling to 37 college campuses a year. I’ve been on a lot of college campuses in the past 30 years. There’s just something about the friendliness of this campus. You walk by somebody and they at least look you in the face and say hello. Even at ODU I’d walk by students and say “Good Morning,” and they would seem startled that I had spoken to them. Coming from here, I thought everyone spoke to each other when you walked by. I didn’t know that people didn’t do that. It’s very nice to be back on campus and to have that welcoming feeling and kindness that is here again. You don’t realize how much you miss it until it’s happening again.

Julie Wiley Ramsey ’93
Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life

09/08/2022

Great speech at Convocation today!!

03/24/2019

Come out to Uptown Cafe this wednesday and help support IFC with our spirit night! 5-7pm, catch us there!

09/04/2018

IFC Recruitment Events this week! Kickball tonight and Moe's Spirit Night on Thursday!

Men interested in recruitment can sign up at: https://piedmont.longwood.edu/GreekLife/

10/10/2017

If you are in one of the IFC regulated fraternities and you are interested in joining the IFC Executive Council, here's the link to apply!

Once you have completed this form, Canon Cochran, IFC president will send you a time slot for your interview on Thursday, November 2nd. If you have any questions or concerns he can be reached at [email protected]. This application is due on October 31st at 11:59pm.