I think they are all failing to understand just how much the NPC delegates (on the inter/national level, not collegiate) communicate with each other. If, in fact, chapters are not at total and the general environment is not good for expansion, even if a Greek Life Advisor votes to expand, it doesn't mean that any NPC groups will actually send in packets, present, or follow through with an expansion. A Greek Advisor cannot force an NPC group to open a chapter on their campus.

Thank you! Very well said.

Well said, and from what it seems, the campus isnt' in need of a new chapter. if not all groups are at total, and NM classes are a reasonable size... why would you vote yes ?

For the most part, another chapter should be added only when all groups are at or very close to total. If the majority of groups are significantly below total, then perhaps total needs to be lowered.

The only exception (and I could see this being a good exception at a small school in particular) is if a niche is not being filled. If there are a lot of women cross-released (but still have a reasonable GPA) or these interest groups have something different to offer (and if they actually have a group wishing to affiliate), such as a Jewish interest group where there are no Jewish sororities on campus (just an example), then why not let them affiliate?

ETA: With that said, most of these women have not been through recruitment, so I am not sure how they know there isn't a place for them.

Y'all have FIFTY girls who went through rush at 4 sororities and didn't get a bid?? Do y'all have the kind of rush where rushees can decline invites to 2nd Round (or later), and those 50 girls only accepted invites to the groups that were close to total, and declined the smaller group's invites?

If not - I know we have the right as GLOs to be picky - but the smaller groups couldn't find ANY of those 50 girls that met criteria?? The only other reason I could come up with is that those 50 were all under GPA requirement.

No no no no!! Barely ANY of them went through recruitment. The girl who started the second group wasn't bid and asked the 6-8 or so other girls not bid if they wanted to form some sort of interest group. It expanded from there with a Facebook group with freshman who have not been permitted to go to recruitment yet [deferred rush] and other girls who have never gone through.

Round 1 is mandatory; round two is not. We don't do invites to round 2, so they can choose whichever parties they wish. We tell girls if you don't go to all four, it's probably gonna bite you in the butt. Next round is pref; they can choose up to two, and we still recommend not suiciding. This was also informal recruitment, so girls who were pref'd are *not* guaranteed a place on a bid list, as they usually are for formal.

Total right now is 50, and we discussed lowering it, but just this semester, one organization is up to 48, another 46. Lowering it may be considered within another year as in one semester one org has 20 girls graduating and another 22. Quota is usually never above 13.

I'm sorry - I misunderstood. I read it as she rallied the girls who didn't get bids, and that was the complete makeup of that group of 50.

Are y'all allowed to do informationals with the Freshmen??? It might not be a bad idea to get all of the Greek-hopefuls together and let them know that these two groups are NOT university approved and NOT NPC groups, and do not (yet) have the approval to become NPCs. If you're a freshman and can't wait to rush, someone luring you in with "join our group NOW because you can" is probably pretty tempting if you are only fed BS and don't have the whole story.

We've never done anything like that [as far as I know]. We are concerned about them being manipulated about all of this, and although these groups aren't even Greek [yet], a stretch is to consider it dirty rushing. The freshman girls were told that should something happen this semester, they wouldn't be included since they don't have the credit & GPA requirements yet, but they will be included in future semesters. They were told all of this, mind you, after we cracked down on the groups for not telling them those rules and even for using the letters of the organizations they are 'going to become' on their web pages. :rolleyes:

Formal begins the middle of February and we get back to school at the end of January, so I'll see if I can arrange some sort of informational session at the beginning of the semester. I just want these girls to actually come so they can hear it all.

Maybe make it "mandatory" for any woman who is considering going Greek (including future Greek groups:rolleyes:). I'm sure if you include some anti-hazing/PC junk in there, your Greek Life director will agree to it.

I would make sure to get this clarified ASAP. This is the case at many schools, where the final decision is with the administration.

And from my own collegiate expansion experience, NPC groups will come, will present, and the school will expand-even if the vote was against it, but adminstration wanted it. And our campus was similiar to yours tpa in terms of total and avg quota.

I agree with AlphaFrog, market market market, get a lot of girls interested in the process and give them the CORRECT information to avoid these groups interfering. Information sessions do work and they are a great place to get girls to sign up right there and give them the information right there.

The situation at your school, though, was that the entire character of the SCHOOL was changing - going from commuter to residential, or attempting to, and the admin saw a larger Greek system as a component of that.

Without outing luv n tpa, I'm going to say I don't think that's exactly the case here. I don't think the school necessarily WANTS to go against the recommendation of NPC or the individual groups, or expand the Greek system, they're just asserting that they CAN. The only reason I think they would approve this is if they're afraid of an unrecognized local sorority running underground, and if, as AlphaFrog suggested, it's made clear that these groups are not sanctioned or approved in any way by the school, the likelihood of that happening would decrease considerably.

Do these organizations know these groups are using their letters with the claim of becoming a chapter? I would think most if not all NPC groups would make complaints to said group(s) about that. Arent our letters copyrighted material?

We advised the girls to remove them, and they did. I believe that they truly didn't know that it was wrong and weren't aware of the proper sequence of events. After talking to them and had they not removed it, I would have gone further up.