New Chapter of A Sorority
 

I am thinking of asking one or two sororities into looking into expanding to my campus. its a very large campus, but there hasn't been a sorority expansion there since 1985, and i am kind of scared.
how many people would i need minumum and what are some of the things i should [or could] do to recruit people?
and approx. how long will it take to become a colony?

and more questions to come when i can think of them...

i have no idea where to start.:confused:

Start by contacting the national headquarters of the sororities you would like to ask to come to your campus, and ask them. That should be pretty helpful, and they will be able to tell you if they are interested in expanding at all. Just google the names of the sororities you want to ask, or just go to the umbrella organization's website (like NPC or NPHC). Good luck!

NO.

The very FIRST step is for the campus PHC to vote to open for expansion. If the campus is not voted open for expansion, there's nothing that ANY of the 26 NPCs can do. Secondly, you contact NPC, NOT the sororities directly.

The steps are outlined on www.npcwomen.org. Look for the section on expansion.

^Agreed...as long as you interested in an NPC. There is no point talking to groups if you don't even know yet if it is even possible from a campus perspective. Just because there hasn't been expansion in more than 20 years, doesn't mean that it wasn't considered in recent years, so you may get your answer quickly.

That said, if you did contact a group, hopefully they would tell you the same as AlphaFrog.

Whoa, calm down! I told her to contact the umbrella organization, too, meaning NPC. Contacting the individual sorority can be helpful, because they will often let the person know if they are currently in the process of expanding to that campus in the first place. Just to avoid confusion, the section is called "Extension," and is located at http://www.npcwomen.org/college/c_extension.php on the NPC website. Good luck, again, to you!

I thought an interest group of sufficient size (like a local sorority) could contact an NPC group themselves...

guess I better read up.

They can but only after the school is declared open by the Proper Authority.

Assuming that her campus already has a College Panhellenic Council in place, according to this (page 4!), the local sorority/interest group MAY NOT contact the individual NPC group without proper permission.

Isn't the "Proper Authority" usually designated as the authorities on campus? So, she might want to contact the administration at her university, too.

Yes, I just read that, too. Thanks!!! :) So, the people to contact first, then, would be the "Proper Authority" on campus, which neither one of us mentioned.

PHC=College Panhellenic Council

I'm aware of that, but the OP never explicity stated that her campus was an NPC campus in the first place. So, if it isn't, she would have to contact another group. It's good that this information was posted for her, however. This process is very structured and will take a lot of patience to complete.

Redraidergirl,

Your first step is to talk to the Greek Advisor, or similar position, at your school. That way you will know what your options are. Be prepared to answer a few questions. For example, have you participated in sorority recruitment? What are your reasons for bringing a new chapter to campus?

If the Proper Authority agrees to a new colony, a letter will be sent to NPC announcing the opportunity. (A university letter would also need to be sent to the non-NPC HQ if your selected organization is non-NPC. It shows university support for a new group.) NPC will announce it to their members and those interested will send in packets. The packets are narrowed and groups are invited to present their organizations. After the presentations, one group is selected to colonize. If specific NPC groups are in mind, the announcement still goes out to all NPC members but only those requested may respond.

The requirements for colony status vary from organization to organization. A colony will receive its charter after it has completed all of the requirements. The minimum that I have seen is 8 weeks but some I have seen are as long as 2 years. It just depends on the colony’s motivation and the sorority’s procedures.

Good luck to you!

aopirose thank you for explaining that so well. :)

No, not explicitly, I think she pretty much implied it though. But, if you want to go there, she never actually stated that she wanted to contact NPC sororities either.

True, but I was simply trying to help her with the sororities that I am familiar with. This thread is hers, and should be about her. I'm not sure why it has evolved into a one-sided conversation between us. If she wants information from either of us, she can message us. :)

It's most likely a post-and-run anyway. Oh well.

Hahhaha @ post and run. It's a run-by posting! Duck!

Given her username, I would guess she is at Texas Tech.

Good investigative work... :) :cool: She could just like the school, though. One never knows!

Oh for crying out loud.

SHE POSTED YESTERDAY.

Don't be so quick to label her a post and run just because she hasn't replied back yet. :rolleyes:

wow....
 

wasn't expecting soo many replies....

I do go to Texas Tech = ] good sleuthing to whomever figured that out.
And it is an NPC campus....
and the two sororities i am looking at are Gamma Phi Beta and Phi Sigma Sigma.

So the Proper Authority in my case... a NPC Campus whould be.... the other sororities? or actually the NPC themselves?

DUCK? WHERE :p

The proper authority would be the campus Panhellenic. Contact the Panhellenic advisor and see if expansion has been brought up recently, and if the campus Panhellenic was in favor of it.

Have you gone through rush at all, to check out the 11 sororities that are already there?

:D The NPC would be the "Proper Authority" on your campus. Duck!

I didn't realize that "post and run" was at all insulting. OH WAIT...IT'S NOT. For crying out loud.

The "Proper Authority" would be the CPC not the NPC. CPC = the local governing body on her campus. NPC = the national governing body.

I THINK it was Tech I heard about last year--someone said something about them considering expansion and it was voted down....not positive though. So check with the Greek Advisor.

Or it could have been that they should expand... I am getting old and can't remember.

That said, at a school like Tech, you will likely have to keep an open mind and consider presentations from any of the groups interested...not just the two you have highlighted for some reason.

No sluething involved, really -- just some familiarity with athletic team nicknames. I don't know of any school that calls its teams the "Red Raiders" except for Texas Tech, so I assume if there are any other schools that use that name, they are fairly small. But you said in your first post that you go to a large school, so unless you were using your high school teams' nickname . . . . ;)

I remember some rumblings about that too and I thought that it was MY imagination.

I sent her a private message about this. I am fully aware that she should contact her CAMPUS Panhellenic Council. I know what NPC is and I realize the difference. I meant to say to contact the NPC on YOUR campus. Whatever way you look at it, they are still NPC sororities, but I could understand how that could be misconstrued after re-reading my post. She knows from reading the website who to contact by now.

I am a guy, but my IGC just voted to possibly expand (More then likely with a sorority) last night and I would love to get a bit of information on this as well. What do you guys think would be the best way to court sororities to come to my University? Also, as a somewhat smaller-mid size school who do you think we should be going after? Our whole Greek community is only around 150+ members and 7 organizations. Any good info would help,

-Alex-

If your campus is thinking of adding an NPC member group, this page will help tremendously especially since there is an NPC member on campus already. It explains in detail how the NPC process works. http://www.npcwomen.org/extension-info.aspx

Your campus will not be able to court any other NPC group until the NPC Extension Chairwoman has received an official letter from the Proper Authority. Since your campus doesn’t have a specific College Panhellenic Council, the Proper Authority maybe either your school’s Greek Advisor or maybe the Dean of Students. It just depends on the hierarchy of your school’s administration.

Basically, when an NPC member evaluates a campus, there are a few things for which they look. A growing Greek System, support from the administration and students, and the support of area alumnae are just the tip of the iceberg.

Good luck to your campus! Expansion can be a very exciting experience.

So mens groups were involved in the voting at UW Stevens Point? That does not sit well with me or any NPC woman. Only the women's groups should be voting on extension.

Really? And why is that? There are schools that have begun doing this and other, bigger, schools that are looking into something like this.

When a new organization comes on campus it affects the entire Greek community, not just the local IFC or PC.

Sometimes the local Panhellenic is unfair and votes for an NPC that is weaker nationally and may not do as well on their campus in order to limit competition, and that's not very "Panhellenic" is it?

And since when did you become a member of Panhellenic to know what goes on in Expansion Voting? :rolleyes:

I don't need to be to know what goes on. :)

Ladies, meet Earpus Version 2.0.

This makes no sense. If Panhellenic doesn't want competition, they don't have to vote for expansion. And no NPC group is going to go on a campus where the majority of NPC groups do NOT want expansion. I feel pretty secure in saying that - it is WAY too much time and money to establish a chapter if you don't have at least the nominal support of other NPCs.

And wear the Earpus banner with pride. Do you like gooey buns?

Because it is an NPC policy that only NPC chapters vote on expansion. More than likely, others have a voice but not a vote. This is starting to become a problem where others are involved in the "vote" and NPC is addressing it.