That's not correct. A local sorority does NOT have to go through this process. A local can contact the sororities they are interested in directly and invite one or more to present. Obviously, you do need the support of the administration, but if you have formed an interest group of 25 girls, you have basically proven to them there is a market for another chapter on campus. (If there is no Greek life at all on campus, that is anothe story.)

Well Jen,

I am forming a sorority for HS so I know how hard it can be! Point of advise. Please take everyone's advise at least listen.

have you started looking into letters and crests (coat of arms) yet? There is a book I would recommend "College Fraternity Heraldry" by Emily Helen Butterfield. It has information on starting stuff like that .

Also, get a copy of Roberts Rules of Order. It goes over making bylaws and constitutions and stuff like that. Especially good for someone who has never done it before! I know you can get one at any Borders or Barnes and Noble.

I wish you luck with the sorority!!! Keep us updated as you go.

At some point, she will need to go through Panhel's "Clearing House Procedure", if you will.....
I will amend what I posted earlier...if the young lady who posted is interested in ZTA, she should contact the NPC's Extension Committe *AND* Zeta's Director or Extension/Expansion.

If there is a pre-existing Panhellenic on campus, a new group must be unanimously welcomed by the campus Panhellenic. If any campus group is dead set against a new group coming to campus, it will not happen. From what the original poster has written, it sounds like there are a few sororities already at her campus (and I am making the assumption that they are NPC groups) so she would need unanimous approval from all on campus NPC's, in order to bring a new NPC onto campus.

For example, at my alma mater, one NPC with a closed chapter wants to come back and they can't because 1 group out of the 7 NPCs on campus is dead set against it (due to their low numbers...a new group would likely finish them off). So that has scuttled that decision.

Also, I should tell you that for the first 2 years of university, I went to a different uni from the one that I graduated from. I tried to get a colony going and there was no exisiting NPC on campus. I still had to write to the NPC in Indiana to get "permission". I approached one NPC group and one group only, but was still told by them that I had to write to the NPC to make sure everything was above board.

yes, for a new group to come, it must be unanimously approved by the groups of that campus' Panhellenic....