05-03-2014, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
Very few chapters anywhere actively recruit any specific target group because they are dependent on which women the College Panhellenic in general recruit to participate.
To make this a productive conversation- let's ask - What could College Panhellenics do to get more women of color to go through recruitment? Since most schools promote recruitment through the organization fairs at the beginning of the school year or at freshman orientation, what would help?
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I agree with you and asked a similar question earlier in the thread in response to tld221:
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Originally Posted by tld221
Also. As someone who was interested in NPC greek life (well, being greek generally, but initially exposed and sought out NPC first) I couldn't have told you WHERE to find an NPC alumna. I had enough white teachers but how would I know, as a first-generation college hopeful, how to navigate all the preparation to become greek? I legitimately did not consider greek life until I got on campus. Thankfully I didn't attend a school like Alabama (super informal, no big houses, etc) but if I had, I'd have been SOL. Who would've primed me on tent talk, recs, and what to wear?
Especially since the Internet (and having access to a computer) wasn't something anyone I knew growing up had easy access to. An hour at a time at the library and maybe at lunch time. So tell me, in my largely AA, poor urban neighborhood, would I even have began?
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I think that is a conversation we should be having.
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Women who come from families or communities where sorority membership is common are privy to the unsaid rules, social norms, and expectations that are key parts of sorority recruitment.
http://afa1976.org/Portals/0/documents/Oracle/Park%20Fall2012.pdf
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In my earlier anecdote, the young lady attended a large predominately white high school where discussion among UofA-bound girls concerning recruitment would be common. While she had no family connections or privileged background, she likely had many friends who were at least somewhat knowledgeable about recruitment. The PNM of interest last fall attended a small predominately white private school in Tuscaloosa (97% white), and her grandfather is a prominent UofA University Trustee. She would not be representative of a typical PNM - or of a typical AA PNM.
This is not an easy issue to address in a system with – in almost every way imaginable - a turbo-tacular recruitment. I’m interested in hearing what others think. How has this been addressed elsewhere?
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Originally Posted by AGDee
I agree that the photos on a group's web site may not be representative of the chapter's actual demographics, that is a place to consider making changes. Photos on websites and in brochures should show women of color (with a variety of physical characteristics, I might add) because someone going to those web sites wants to see that there are members "like them" in some way. If you go to a site and see a bunch of thin women with long blonde hair, blue eyes, all in Lily and you do not fit that mold, you're going to think you wouldn't fit in with them.
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I agree. It appears that Alabama began to address that concern in this spring's Panhellenic Preview slideshow:
http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/047/206/0d...rpoint-PDF.pdf
Last edited by Hartofsec; 05-03-2014 at 04:33 PM.
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