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expansion
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The Greek Affairs or Panhellenic office usually recognizes a need for a new sorority and that decision is most often made when the other chapters on campus are doing reasonably well and getting quota every year either through Formal Recruitment or COB. Another factor might be whether there are PNM's not getting bids during formal recruitment, which may indicate the need for more groups.
I think an "interest group" or a local sorority may also initiate the process, but the campus Panhellenic must agree, and as far as I know, they will ask for input from the existing groups. Someone feel free to correct this if it is incorrect, please.
Once a decision is made to expand, then the campus can ask certain groups to make presentations or they can just issue a general call for presentations through National Panhellenic. If there is a local sorority interested in going National, or an "interest group", they might ask the groups directly if they have particular ones they are interested in.
If there is no interest group formed, the National that is selected for the campus will then interview all women who are interested in them and make selections from applications. I have seen posts on GC where they do an interview process then actually have a Pref night.
This is not very detailed, but is generally the way it works. There is a wonderful thread in "Rush" by a woman is going throught the process make a local sorority national. She knows the process inside out, I am sure.
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