There's a very loosely organized group of women now who didn't get their first choice out of the 2. They may be the third group on campus to approach nationals!

Carnation:
Wow, wouldn't it be fabulous if you went from 2 hazing orgs to three NPC sisterhoods! I am so rooting for you and your campus. College-age women deserve all the great aspects of ethical, NPC organizations. Please keep us updated on the progess, I think expansion is so exciting!
violets

Expansion Opportunity (my favorite topic!!)
 

Carnation & GPhiBLtColonel

Your opportunity has not appeared in the NPC bulletin yet (to my knowledge) so there is probably not much to report. The NPC officers just switched and the new person has not sent out the next bulletin to the 26 groups advising us of opportunities yet. I think my last bulletin was late August. As soon as we all get notified of your campus opportunity, I am sure several groups will be sending lots of information about their groups to you to review. Usually campuses invite a max of 3 groups to present. If there are three distinct groups by then they can, through mutual selection match up with the three groups which present. This is how our colony at Texas A&M Kingsville came to be. Two nationals presented to what we thought would be two locals. By the time we got there (about a month later) there were three groups. We chose one and Theta Phi Alpha chose the other one. We colonized on October 12 with 27 women and total has been set at 35 for now.

Best of luck in seeing this through to a new era of non-hazing sororities!!!

Denise_DPhiE

I have never been involved in the process when an estabished local sorority joins an inter/national sorority, so can anyone explain what happens to the local sorority's members.

For example, what happens to the local sorority's alumnae? Do they automatically become alumnae of the national sorority, or do they have to come back and be initiated at the chapter installation?

Also, what if there are women in the chapter who do not want to go with the national? Do they deactivate before the local sorority begins the new member process with the national?

The local sorority's alums are not "automatic" national sisters, since they have not gone through ritual. They have to come back and be initiated. Depending on the age of the local and the policies of the national group, sometimes this entails just the girls who were in school when the national colonization started, and sometimes the national invites ALL local alums to become national sisters (I think they have to pass a basic info test).

If there are women who don't want to go national, they don't have to "deactivate" since when the local colonizes with the national, it ceases to exist. they can still wear letters, etc, but it's like if their chapter closed. When they graduate, the local dies out.

Any updates?

The local NPHC alum group has agreed to sponsor a collegiate chapter! As for NPC, a member of the bigger local sorority has said that a member has been assigned to work with the Student Activities Director on nationalization. They've been independently contacted by nationals, but I only know the names of 2.

This depends on the org.

I'm the maintainer of the ADPi Valpo page that ValpoKD mentioned earlier (hiya!), and I graduated in 1995. At that time, the sororities had wanted to go national for years, but it was always "we want to go national, but we don't want others to go national." (Well, duh!) So in 1997-1998, everyone pretty much went national.

I was sent a letter of invitation, as were all of the alumnae of Delta Chi Epsilon and Phi Omega (the previous incarnations). All I needed to do was to pay for my pin and show up. I went though Alpha/pledge initiation, Delta/member initiation, and Pi/alumna initiation all in one fell swoop! (And we were initiated by Mrs. Dickey, woohoo!) But, I didn't have to take a national test. Other GLOs probably have different standards.

I will say, though, that those alumnae who go through and become alumnae initiates *tend* to be more active. That pin ain't cheap! I've felt that it was well worth it to become an alumna member, even though I live 1.5 hours away in Illinois. I serve as webmaster of their site, and try to get out there for Homecoming and Founder's Day. I may try to go out for Bid Day this year, too! I'm having fun watching and helping these girls recruit members by getting their message out to others.

It is a shame that we're only down to 7 sororities from 8; Delta Phi Kappa was small before it went national, and they just weren't able to make the full transition.

We've lost some fraternities over the past decade (1 last year, 3 others in the years between 1992-1998 or so), but I have heard *RUMORS* that another fraternity will be joining the campus, and that it's possibly going to be Lambda Chi Alpha (which is one of the three that closed while I was graduating, the only one of those three that didn't lose its charter, but just got too tiny after the house went substance-free).

So yeah, greek life seems to be very much alive and kicking at Valpo! Makes me proud.

NPC bulletin
 

It was listed in the latest bulletin so things should be heating up there!!!

Oh boy, you made my day--this is getting official! At least 2 NPC groups are going to get some fabulous sisters!

Oooh, carnation, so happy to hear the news! I'm sure you will have so much to tell us in the next few months!

Too bad Pi Phi is so busy with the Western colonizations! You have advisor/AAC/CHC written all over you!!!