Getting Better Communication from PHA
 

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I second that-- you need to make sure that you are taking good notes at Panhellenic meetings and going to every possible event.

One of the things a lot of chapters on my campus did to build involvement was to actually 'assign' sisters to attend Panhellenic meetings (basically split everyone into groups and rotate through). That helps to get the individual chapter more visible in the Greek community and to get each of your members to understand a little better and encourage them to attend other things rather than just seeing minutes. Having a large contingent of your sisters at the meetings shows obvious interest on your chapter's part tp become involved and hopefully it won't take very long for everyone in Panhellenic to warm up to you as new associate members!!

You are already on the right track by seeking associate membership at your school.. Congratulations and great job working with your Campus Panhellenic already! That is an extremely valuable link that will help your chapter immensely in the coming years as long as you can learn to capitalize on it and take advantage of it.

Thanks for the insight! I appreciate it.

Our PHA Exec Board had actually been feeling the same thing from our chapter. Consequently, the VP-New Member Education and our Chapter's Mem Ed worked together to create a "Panhel Buddy System". They assigned a PHA Exec member to every active chapter sister so that they can ask us questions about how our chapter works and we can ask questions about how the NPC works (because not all of my sisters are lucky enough to frequent GC....:D) and more specifically, how Panhel functions at my school.

It was a really warm, friendly gesture and will be very helpful for both of us. We're the first new chapter to be added to the PHA since the 60s and the first ever associate members, so there is a LARGE learning curve.

They've also promised to be more prompt about responding and we've reminded our delegates to take excellent, excellent notes. Hurrah!