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Originally Posted by psy
OTOH, the NPHC did expand with Iota Theta Phi after 60 years of dormancy (yeah, I know they are different lanes and trying to make any generalizations across them is probably not a great idea), so old, long "stable" (read: same member organizations for decades) national councils have expanded in the recent past.
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"Different lanes" but councils and conferences may consider similar things when making such decisions. Here is what came to mind when I read your post:
1. Are there any newer organizations (or older organizations) that want to be a member of NPC and are sustainable and have something substantive in common with the other NPC sororities?
2. Iota Phi Theta was founded in 1963 and joined NPHC in 1997. They had 34 years of longevity and sustainability as an historically and predominantly African American fraternity. The other NPHC orgs joined in 1930 or 1931.
3. The NPHC consists of
both historically and predominantly African American fraternities
and sororities, of which there are 9. In other words, the context of the Divine 9, a relatively small number of historically and predominantly Black GLOs, is different than that of the NPC's 26 sororities (and NIC's 75 fraternities, including 4 of the 5 NPHC fraternities). That's a lot of sororities and so much that the NPC and NIC are separate conferences, unlike the NPHC.
4. I'm always interested in how organizations withdraw membership from councils and conferences; and how some organizations rejoin councils and conferences. When reading about fraternities that withdrew from NIC, I always wonder what the "disagreement" was.