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but if seniors graduate in december or members drop due to hours, or grades or financial reasons and the chapter goes below total, the chapter could pledge new members (up to total) in the spring.
why have pnm numbers declined? has the female enrollment at your college declined?
i am not targeting your campus per se, because as i said i see this at my daughters campus(and other campuses)too. it is tiresome to feel that you are continually planning and holding recruitment events-you get burned out on recruitment. believe me i know! since no one on your campus is at total, it is not as big a deal right now. but i do think that panhellenic should re-evaluate the total figure and possibly lower it.
the chapter i advise went thru cob as a colony and i was with them as an advisor then. they had x amount of girls pledge the colony and our international office wanted us to maintain that number. girls would drop out and we would have to hold a series of recruitment events. they would pledge back up to the number they needed, a few more girls would drop out and we would have to hold some more events. even after the colony was installed as a chapter, they had some girls drop their membership , which put the chapter below total and we had to pledge back up to total. this went on for the first 2 years of their existance, but due to their hard work they have been over total their last two years. they are 4 years old.
now granted, there are only 2 npc sororities on campus and the campus enrollment is growing every year, but fgcu started out as a mainly commuter campus, there is no greek housing or suites or lodges, and both sororities overcame those obstacles. a third sorority will be coming on this fall.
the point i am trying to make is that when sororities first fall below total and do not get back up to total, and this is allowed to continue, they will find themselves falling farther and farther behind in the membership game, while the bigger sororities go that much more over total. then it becomes almost impossible for the smaller chapters to catch up.
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