We're doing informal recruitment currently, but don't have a panhell so we're always doing it on our own. It's hard, but this semester our recruitment chair and the rest of the chapter really got down to business and we had 15 girls at our last party. For us, this is huge, as traditionally winter recruitment is a lot smaller than fall. Our avg is usually 6 PNM.
Here's what we did this year:
Put flyers up off campus in the mall parking lot (yes, we only have one small mall) and in local businesses frequented by undergrads
Printed and distributed business cards with our name, chapter email address and recruitment chair phone number
Painted the snow. Yes, we did! It totally worked, the words really stood out. Traditionally we paint a cannon on campus, which serves as our message board. This time we did it and the surrounding snow. Whatever works!
Chalked classroom chalkboards
Put classified ads in the student newspaper. Pretty cheap, but effective since many people post ads for a variety of events there
Somehow, this all worked together to bring out a great group of PNMs. I'm excited to see how things turn out!
Hope this sparks some ideas for you...
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