I think a teeny school isn't a problem- how many of you had honestly heard of Wisconsin - Platteville before I came on here? I think the bigger issue a NPC group would have is your size. I'm not what the requirements are, but I believe most sororities have a minimum size to charter, do they not? I know when we chartered back in the day, we had to have at least 30 girls. I have no idea what the current numbers are, but that might be something to look at.

I think some of the issues with size of the colonizing group will be the size of the campus and how many are greek, etc. I know our campus has 13,000 plus students but we aren't not a hugh greek campus so we only needed 30 sisters to colonize. Now at Syracuse the Pi chapter rechartered with close to 100 members. Other campus with smaller numbers of students may not need to have so many members to colonize.

Even if it is summer, you might want to contact a couple of groups that you're interested in to see if they would be willing to come out and check out the campus. You have at least two groups that have chapters closed there and they may be interested in trying to recolonize so I would say definitely contact them to see what they think. While they're checking out the campus all of you can work on recruiting more members, especially if you have summer session going on right now.

Small size may not be all that big of a problem. My local became a colony of AEPhi with 10 members. We were told we had to get up to 25 before being chartered, but we took in 12 new members and were chartered at 22.

With a small size, you may be a colony for a while, but I doubt national sororities would dismiss you out of hand.

You're right. My colony had to have about 90, I think, to get our charter, but that is a competitive size for a sorority on the campus I was on. Other campuses are smaller and the size of each group is much less, so not as many members would be required. If 100 members were always required for chartering, nobody would have chapters at smaller schools.

I take it you're no longer in school?

Oh, please check my "Rio Life Part 2" in Chapter Operations for updates, 'cause damn, I've got some! :D

Pss: On the school size deal...I think we have less than 3,000 student...it's a pretty small school guys :(

My school has less than 3,000 students and we have 6 national sororities (no locals at all, though). HQ's will most likely look at each campus and each expansion situation individually instead of always going for the big-name, large universities. Just continue working on your sisterhood and things will work out.


BTW, I like the name, too! ;)

well, my college had 1200- 1500 students (when i started - when i graduated...now it is closer to 2000) and we have 4 NPC groups! the size of campus may not be as big of a deal as you might think. there maybe a group or two who are not interested in colonizing on a campus of that size right now because they may have their resources elsewhere. once NPC is contated, you will at least have a list of groups that are interested in expanding. you can't start eliminating if you don't know your choices!

No, sir, I just graduated this Spring! Notice the little "alumna" after the DZ in my signature. ;)

Size of the school is less important than percentage of Greek involvement (i.e, my school is twice the size of DW AlphaGam's and hers probably has 3 times as many Greeks). There are other factors too.

This thread is nearly 6 yrs old, so yea.

When did Greek Chat become a professional medium to make trademarking announcements?

FWIW, all the other organizations can contest the trademarking if they so choose.

That's nice.

The trademark process doesn't always work exactly like that...

Ok, I know I'm gonna get some crap for this because it's such an old thread, but hey, I didn't bump it!
I don't understand how people can encourage someone to take a name that's already in use even if it's not close to their school. Yeah, it isn't that likely that they'll meet another KGD or whatever, but I'd rather pick a new name that sounds like an NPC, NIC, etc than have the exact same name as someone else. I know someone posted here how many Greek letter combinations you could make. Yeah, they aren't all pretty sounding but...still!
Maybe I'm just sensitive cause we have a Kappa Gamma Delta chapter here (the pre-med sorority).