[FuzzieAlum]

The problem is her school doesn't have a Panhellenic, because it only has one NPC sorority. (It may have a Greek council of some kind, but it wouldn't take on these extension issues.)

The fact that the one NPC group has lots more girls interested then they can accommodate and that there are two NPC interest sororities, NBO and Alpha Psi, would suggest to me that expansion is in order, but there's no systematic process to facilitate it - other than NBO and Alpha Psi themselves.

In any case, if a vote to expand is made, it can happen two ways - as TrisigmaAtl describes, where Panhellenic feels expansion is necessary, it votes, and all/some of the sororities are appealed to - or where a local group petitions to Panhel to join and ask for a national charter, in which case they choose the national organization themselves (with the national's agreement of course!).

This case is the latter but with no petition to Panhel required, and here's one more complication ... if NBO or Alpha Psi gets a charter first, that triggers the formation of a Panhellenic Council, leaving out the other local. That council then could vote not to expand! Unfair, yes ...

We haven't talked about Alpha Psi much on here, but I think it's worth noting that they have been around a little longer than NBO and have been pursuing one org themselves the whole time, and they haven't gotten it yet either, or we'd be calling them the AB colony rather than Alpha Psi!