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Originally Posted by Titchou
As a former International Director of Housing for an NPC group, I have to agree with you here! I've talked with several folks at various NIC groups about how we do housing.
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In the past few years, I've assembled, elected and written bylaws for a BOD with no house--just waiting and ready to act when things are right. Adding an NPC person with housing experience, probably someone who is also on a local NPC house corp is a priority of mine.
When talking with white hairs from another chapter about how we need to set things up, the advice has been to figure out what the sororities are doing and then copy them.
We have a pretty horrible system which requires each chapter to essentially reinvent the wheel. After having been established for over a decade on our campus, spending days in drafting contracts, organizational documents, bylaws and leases, I just had a sorority outbid us on a house we had overbid on to begin with just betting that they can fill the beds. I have every expectation that they will. They apparently have access to some major outside capital contributions from their HQ. We're on our own.
Organizationally, I think there are going to be fewer and fewer NIC groups in the future. Our NPC counterparts have really shown us how and where we need to evolve.
So back to the OP... you're foolish if you exclude what someone can offer simply because of their gender. We may be single-gender organizations, but that doesn't mean that the best ideas are always going to come from within.