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"Its a shame the school itself isnt trying harder to help us survive, but we dont have very many options left."
it is not the schools responsibility for your(or anyone's) sorority to survive. it is up to you and your fellow alumnae, and your collegiate members.

"We recently in the last 5 years had a second national house join, which forced us to become part of National Panhellenic."
I would guess that you became a part of your college's panhellenic council;if you are a local you are not a member of the National Panhellenic Conference(NPC).

There is an entire forum dedicated to local sororities and fraternities and if you look thru that forum you may find something that would pertain to your problem. In addition, you might find helpful information by looking in the recruitment forum threads.

i would imagine that you wouldn't be able to "go national" unless your campus was open for expansion, and the sorority that was invited to colonize agreed to accept your sorority as a group for membership.