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Originally Posted by goodie2shoe
I am the panhel recruitment chair on my campus and I am looking for some help. I guess this is obvious by my thread I started.
The greek life on our campus has been struggling in the recent years to recruit girls to go greek. Our total which was once 65 is now down to 45, which was lowered about 4 years ago, and at least half of our 11 chapters are not at total.
I have set my formal recruitment goal to have one pnm for every greek sister by the start of formal recruitment. Obviously we are going to have some pnms drop out but even if we make it through with 50% of the girls that sign up; we will have increased our size our size by 50% and total would be twice that of what its been since I started school here.
Any ideas on how I can help implement this plan would be great. I would like to start making a recruitment booklet to send home to incoming freshmen, but don't know what I should include in it. Also is there a certian company other colleges use.
I would also like to have members possible the executive board of each chapter to setup a table and talk to girls during orientation weekend, but I am worried the President of the University won't allow it because he is very anti-greek.
Any help or advice you can give would be great! Thank you!
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If other recognized student orgs are allowed to have tables during orientation (College Republicans, newspaper staff, Dungeons & Dragons club, what have you) you should be allowed to have tables as well - if not for each group individually then for Panhellenic as a whole.
If the pres is still a dick about it even if you point out to him he's discriminating, make a facebook group (again, for Panhellenic as a whole so there's no favortism or dirty rushing) for incoming freshmen.
Have you guys gotten any sort of a new space since the suites were torn down?
Your books should be maybe 2 pages for each group (make sure to specify the type of photos you want and what you do and don't want in them - no drinking photos, no hoochie mama looking photos etc) and then an overview of how the rounds go and answer questions about what to wear, etc. Don't make it so fancy that it'll scare people into thinking they can't afford it.
As a note to everyone who mentioned the website, the student orgs site (which the Greek Life site would fall under) has a note that they are rebuilding their site. NPC can't "override" anything that Student Orgs is doing.
Outside of formal recruitment - remember that
no matter the letter, we're all Greek together. If there are problems with trash talking, dirty rushing or inter chapter rivalries - they need to be handled and stopped. Women aren't going to join when they hear everyone saying "we love being Greek!" at rush and then hear someone saying "I hate those XYZs, they are bigger hos than Paris Hilton!" at a party on the weekend. If you absolutely must vent, do it behind closed doors.