Local in need of help!
 

I'm in charge of new member intake for my sorority. We http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/im.../separator.gifhave been around since 1995 and I'm afraid we might be dying out. We went a year without any new members and our new class is three juniors, if any one has any suggestions on how to bring in new girls that would be great!

Some suggestions that have been previously posted mention, that a key way to promote your organization is to constantly wear letters around campus. Allow fellow students to see your group doing positive things around school and the community and invite them to join you. It's a good way to give back, show you care, and to get people seeing a positive side to greek life.

Some have also suggested to take advantage of campus resources such as the campus paper, cafeteria or union tables, and flyers posted in dormitories and hallways.

Another idea you could try is to work with alumni who may be able to guide you in the right direction. They would know the campus very well and could be able to determine the best ways for your group to expand the way you want it to.

Recently our recruitment chair read, I heart recruitment, and it really helped her. This last semester we had our largest pledge class initiate and so far this semester looks like it will be about the same size!
What seems to work best is making a personal connection. Don't rely on just putting up fliers and hosting events. You need to personally invite people and not on facebook, but over the phone.
I don't know how your campus works, but at the beginning of each semester they give us a list of women who are new on campus that have our required GPA and within our age range. It take a while, and you get a lot of no's but it's a great way to contact women that otherwise may never hear about going greek.

we go door to door in freshman dorms and some sophomore dorms (and bring candy and flyers)... its a lot of work but its worth it .. a lot of girls like to have a face to connect with

on top of all these ideas, some other thing you could do is
1. Get ahead of other by making connection with new incoming freshmen before they have even started school. A good way to do that is during orientation.

2. Make facebook group and add the potential pledges in those group.

3. As a group show that you care and plan events that will attract people .

Do you participate in a formal recruitment on your campus or do your own COB period?

My personal opinion on what adds to good recruitment is a personal relationship with the student body. I am involved in many extra curricular activities on my campus and so are my brothers but the #1 pull that gets us interest is a true personal interest in everyone.

Being very social and open minded is a big part of this. The general student body population take notes of these kind of things, and if you connect to them in a real way and (truly be) an open hand to them... interest will come.

One of my biggest advice is to never have your group fall into the category of a click. If you are able to do this you will be able to attract people from all walks and interests of life and should never run short on interest.
Good luck and much GLO love to you.