Anchor Alumna - thanks for sharing your experience! We are fine with a new NM process. The plus side of being small is that the girls who are active are all pretty new, and have made changes to the process themselves (every semester we incorporate different things to make it more personal to the sisters and NMs.) So they aren't very attached to one way of doing things or another and would be excited to have the development for themselves as new members as well.
irishpipes - Sorry for the confusion. Xidelt is correct. We have never stopped functioning as a chapter on campus, but last fall the number of active sisters dropped below the required amount and so our chapter was given a "dormant" status. It's not a move to shut them down, but to give them more space to recruit and focus internally. They still attend Panhel and IGC meetings, and my actives are on as many committees as they can handle, but there aren't any repercussions if they can't make required meetings. Come next month, when we induct our new members, we will meet the required minimum and be an "active" chapter once more.
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Originally Posted by 33girl
I think this depends on the campus. For someplace like Ole Miss, they really don't need it. For a place where the percentage of "always joiners" is miniscule and "maybe joiners" not too much larger, taking in women who have already shown a commitment to the Greek system AND been accepted by the college Greek community is a positive. I don't think it should always be assumed that local traditions = hazing, because I honestly don't think that is the case most of the time. But at the same time, an NPC shouldn't pull a bait and switch just to get a colony. Don't say "oh, we'll take all your current members no question, we'll AI all your alumnae and give them advisory roles, we'll let you keep your big/little tradition" - and then the colony director comes in and does NONE of that, tells them everything is XYZ from here on in. If that's the way it's going to be, be straight up with the group and let them talk it out and deal with it internally rather than causing a conflict like AA described. It's in a group being absorbed's best interest to get all this in writing - from the individual groups AND from Panhellenic.
And if it turns out that ABC is picking up colonies left and right because they're a little more open-minded about things than XYZ or PQR, well then, that's something for XYZ and PQR to think about.
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Thank you, 33girl. These are our feelings, exactly. Combining with the other local doesn't work for us (we're too different and I really don't think they're interested in absorption no matter the cost to them.) And very good advice about making sure everyone knows where they stand before the colonization happens.