will there ever be a new NPC member?
 

I am wondering what people think about this. It's been years since a sorority has become a member of the NPC. I'm curious if anyone knows of a national sorority has enough chapters to even qualify.

Just seeing what people think. :)

Plus there are so many different sorority types: social, professional, multicultural, etc. And many have formed their own councils. The AES sororities became members of the NPC...but I am unsure if all the different councils would want to merge. As a member of a social and a professional I don't know if it would happen...

What are your thoughts, oh Greekchatters? ;)

I doubt it. Not in my lifetime.

I can't find it right now, but there's a fairly long thread on this subject already.

With the bar being so much lower to enter other councils, doubtful.

Is the bar lower or just different?

I'm sure there's a bit of subjectivity there in what I said, but okay..whatever... "different." That's just a bunch of assumption on my part. And there's the fact that MCGLOs probably have no interest in operating like NPCs because there are so few similarities.

But who knows? Some local may turn into a national and actually petition.

I think with the NIC, we have an outside shot of seeing some of these newfangled "Christian" GLOs like Beta Upsilon Chi petition.

One group that I think might be a *possibility* is Alpha Omega Epsilon.

Do the Christian sororities and fraternities have their own council?

Isn't AOE an Agricultural Sorority? I thought they might be a member of a professional council...

I heard that Kappa Gamma Beta was thinking about petitioning...but something about their chapters--like they almost had the required number.

KBG and AOE would seem like potential choices to me but since the NPC rules are different than NIC (basically the male counterpart of NPC for you newbies out there) I don't know how that could happen. AOE has the right to take specific members based on professional aspiration but that goes in conflict with NPC rules against discrimination. I wouldn't plan on NPC changing their rules to accommodate that.

I think, if I remember from previous threads, that KBG is a true social sorority and would be the most logical addition, but AOE seems bigger to me and more able to take on the issues of scale that NPC membership would require. But remember, there are campuses all over the country where NPC and non-NPC sororities rush together. I think schools can (and do) require their local and smaller nationals to function under NPC or NPC-like rules to minimize hazing, discrimination, etc.

If they did work out something to bring AOE into the fold, SAI would probably fall into the same category. IF they wanted to, which is a pretty big if.

NPC limitation by major?
 

According to the Wikipedia page, Triangle Fraternity (which is part of the NIC)

"limiting its recruitment of members to male students majoring in engineering, architecture, and the physical, mathematical, biological, and computer sciences. It is the only member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference to limit its membership recruitment to these majors."

So a sorority which did the equivalent limitation would not be eligible for membership in the NPC?

Correct. But remember, our rush process is very different. We scream from the mountain tops to "keep your options open" and to look at each sorority with equal importance. You are required to visit every chapter during formal rush and you are required to accept an invitation from each one through the process until the end. It's just not the same with fraternities. The rushees are told (in most cases) to rush a few of the available fraternities. So whereas NPC functions to a great extent to help each of its member sororities achieve parity on each campus, the NIC has no such goal. And I think this is why NPHC couldn't merge with NPC either. Aspirants are told (from what I can gather) to choose A sorority they want to join and work toward that membership. Even-steven isn't part of the protocol.

If anything, members will probably leave, not be added.

This made me chuckle. Please explain?

Really? What makes you say that? Are there members of the NPC that don't seem too happy with it?