CPC and NPHC Sororities: An Official Study on the Differences and Silimarities

[sfksfl07]

Hello Everyone!

I am senior anthropology student and I am working on my senior assignment. My project is a study based on the differences and similarities between NPC and NPHC sororities. For the purpose of my study I am in the process of gathering surveys from members of these two types of sororities. If you would like to participate in this study there are two options.
A. You can visit my website to learn more about why I am doing this project and then you can be directed to the survey
My website can be found at:
http://anthsenproj.tripod.com

B. I have below posted links to the surveys and you can go straight from this page to the survey.

If you are a member of a NPC sorority (Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Zeta, Chi Omega, etc.) Please follow this link to take the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=202933574130">

If you are a member of a NPHC sorority (Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Sigma Gamma Rho) Please follow this link to take the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=630553574769">

Thank You!!!

[CutiePie2000]

I think you mean an "NPC" sorority, not "CPC" sorority.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

I think you mean an "NPC" sorority, not "CPC" sorority.

yea I was wondering what CPC was which was why I clicked the link to see what this thread was all about.

[sfksfl07]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

I think you mean an "NPC" sorority, not "CPC" sorority.

Thank you so much CutiePie2000 for pointing out my mistake in such a respecful and helpful manner. I am doing this study because I want NPC and NPHC members to have a better understanding of each other. I, myself, am a member of an NPHC sorority and I have heard multiple terms for NPC sororities used:
NPC-National Panhellenic Conference
CPC-Collehge Panhellenic Conference
CPH-College Panhellenic

I did do my research and it seemed that on my campus the general term used is CPC. If this is wrong then I apologize and meant no disrespect. Thank you for your help! If you would like to participate further in this study (i.e. help me with other terms used in NPC sororities) please PM me and we can exchange email) .

[AKA_Monet]

sfksfl07- GC folks would be more supportive if they knew who you were. You have not posted in anybody's forum and this is your first one that you started. So we are all wondering, huh? Some of use are WTF? Or WTH?

But, I am wondering, what is your hypothesis, specific aim and the goal of your survey because the questions you ask are not directed and extremely hypothetical. You cannot do any kind of statistics, even if it is multivariate with ANCOVA.

If your goal is establish why NPC organizations do not strongly interact with NPHC sororities, besides the fact they are mostly of 2 different ethnic groups, then you are going to have to ask pointed questions:

I.E. The type of college/university you attended. How was school paid for: financial aid or parents or other. Did one work during school.

Most young ladies joined NPC organizations during their freshmen years. Other young ladies must have more than a semester GPA with fulltime student status to join NPHC sororities.

So you are dealing with a different dynamic between the two.

I can tell you your questions on your survey must be honed down to simplicity.

[sfksfl07]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

sfksfl07- GC folks would be more supportive if they knew who you were. You have not posted in anybody's forum and this is your first one that you started. So we are all wondering, huh? Some of use are WTF? Or WTH?

But, I am wondering, what is your hypothesis, specific aim and the goal of your survey because the questions you ask are not directed and extremely hypothetical. You cannot do any kind of statistics, even if it is multivariate with ANCOVA.

If your goal is establish why NPC organizations do not strongly interact with NPHC sororities, besides the fact they are mostly of 2 different ethnic groups, then you are going to have to ask pointed questions:

I.E. The type of college/university you attended. How was school paid for: financial aid or parents or other. Did one work during school.

Most young ladies joined NPC organizations during their freshmen years. Other young ladies must have more than a semester GPA with fulltime student status to join NPHC sororities.

So you are dealing with a different dynamic between the two.

I can tell you your questions on your survey must be honed down to simplicity.

Thanks again AKA_Monet. I am so happy that you are so interested in my project. I truly appreciate your concern. I am working closely on this project under a professor of anthropology who has her Ph.D and has done plenty of research. I respect her experience and position enough to utilize her as my only advisor concerning my senior assignment. I am very well aware of all of the facts that you have given here and I again appreciate your concern!

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by sfksfl07

Thanks again AKA_Monet. I am so happy that you are so interested in my project. I truly appreciate your concern. I am working closely on this project under a professor of anthropology who has her Ph.D and has done plenty of research. I respect her experience and position enough to utilize her as my only advisor concerning my senior assignment. I am very well aware of all of the facts that you have given here and I again appreciate your concern!

Is she greek? And if she is, is she NPHC or NPC? Yes, it matters because it biases the kind of questions you are asking and you have lost some objectivity regarding your subject.

What if someone who is a member of another organization wants to the other survey? What are your control values?

[DSTCHAOS]

I hated that survey. I especially hated the part where you asked people to write their Founders.

Was that to see if people remembered the Founders or cared enough about your survey to write them down? I didn't care enough about your survey so my response reflects that.

[AngelPhiSig]

The survey has a lot of questions that all depend on how the greek life is on certain campuses. I knew all of my sisters pretty well, but we had a small greek community. I have friends who were in large chapters and didnt know ALL of their sisters as well as I knew all of mine - but thats just our campuses, nothing to do with the organization. The questions also dont leave room for MANY reasons why people join a sorority - yes I joined because my friends are in the organization, but there were other reasons that I joined that werent listed in the survey.

Yes I think a member needs to remember where they were founded etc... Its not something hard to remember. Do I think they need to remember the 45 founders of their chapter? No. Its not really THAT important, especially long after graduation. Do you need to know/remember that the president who was there when you were initiated's favorite color is pink? No. But your founding information is important to your organization. I also think that yea, knowing that my sorority was founded in 1913 is important, but also knowing the ideals we were founded on and knowing the reasons why our founders didnt just join one of the many organizations available to them - that is the real reasons for our sorority becoming our sorority. Dates and locations, secondary to the WHYs...

Oh and the survey was geared toward ACTIVE members and not ALUMNAE. You should specify that in your post.

Eh just my two cents, ALSO can you tell Im BORED? Our school system is on spring break.

[sfksfl07]

Originally Posted by AngelPhiSig

The survey has a lot of questions that all depend on how the greek life is on certain campuses. I knew all of my sisters pretty well, but we had a small greek community. I have friends who were in large chapters and didnt know ALL of their sisters as well as I knew all of mine - but thats just our campuses, nothing to do with the organization. The questions also dont leave room for MANY reasons why people join a sorority - yes I joined because my friends are in the organization, but there were other reasons that I joined that werent listed in the survey.

Yes I think a member needs to remember where they were founded etc... Its not something hard to remember. Do I think they need to remember the 45 founders of their chapter? No. Its not really THAT important, especially long after graduation. Do you need to know/remember that the president who was there when you were initiated's favorite color is pink? No. But your founding information is important to your organization. I also think that yea, knowing that my sorority was founded in 1913 is important, but also knowing the ideals we were founded on and knowing the reasons why our founders didnt just join one of the many organizations available to them - that is the real reasons for our sorority becoming our sorority. Dates and locations, secondary to the WHYs...

Oh and the survey was geared toward ACTIVE members and not ALUMNAE. You should specify that in your post.

Eh just my two cents, ALSO can you tell Im BORED? Our school system is on spring break.

Thank you so much for your response AngelPhiSig! Being a Greek myself I am well aware that Greek Life on different campus varies and that is exactly why I am trying to have a large surveying sample.
In response to your comment that my questions leave no room for many reasons why people join sororities: In anthropology we have a certain type of data gathering in which before we administer a survey, we administer a freelist. In a freelist, I take a sample of people (in this case NPHC and NPC sorority members) and I ask them to list as many reasons that they can possibly think of as to why they joined a sorority. I then tally the results and determine the most common choices and I use the most common choices on the survey. I then administer the survey to a far larger sample of sorority members. Unfortunatelty you are unaware of this method. Perhaps because you have never taken an anthropology class (or any research class), or at least not one where you learned anything.

I find it interesting that you seem so hostile at the question on the survey regarding how you feel about members memorizing their sororities foundation. Rememer AngelPhiSig: the purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding between these two particular types of sororities-not to say that one type is better or one has a better way of doing things.

Finally, I noticed that you were quite annoyed that the survey appears to be geared towards active members and not alumni. Unfortunately your assumption was not true and I do need to add an option to the question I believe you are referring to. Furthermore it is evident to me that you have a poor understanding of NPHC sororities because NPHC sorority members who have graduated and are involved in a graduate chapter are called active (as well as alumni/graduate members). NPHC members who graduate and choose not to be active are called alumni or graduate members not active. I am well aware that the terms are different for NPC sororities. It may be beneficial for you to read my final report. You might just learn something .
Thank you for your time and yes-I can tell you are bored.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by sfksfl07

Thank you so much for your response AngelPhiSig! Being a Greek myself I am well aware that Greek Life on different campus varies and that is exactly why I am trying to have a large surveying sample.
In response to your comment that my questions leave no room for many reasons why people join sororities: In anthropology we have a certain type of data gathering in which before we administer a survey, we administer a freelist. In a freelist, I take a sample of people (in this case NPHC and NPC sorority members) and I ask them to list as many reasons that they can possibly think of as to why they joined a sorority. I then tally the results and determine the most common choices and I use the most common choices on the survey. I then administer the survey to a far larger sample of sorority members. Unfortunatelty you are unaware of this method. Perhaps because you have never taken an anthropology class (or any research class), or at least not one where you learned anything.

I find it interesting that you seem so hostile at the question on the survey regarding how you feel about members memorizing their sororities foundation. Rememer AngelPhiSig: the purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding between these two particular types of sororities-not to say that one type is better or one has a better way of doing things.

Finally, I noticed that you were quite annoyed that the survey appears to be geared towards active members and not alumni. Unfortunately your assumption was not true and I do need to add an option to the question I believe you are referring to. Furthermore it is evident to me that you have a poor understanding of NPHC sororities because NPHC sorority members who have graduated and are involved in a graduate chapter are called active (as well as alumni/graduate members). NPHC members who graduate and choose not to be active are called alumni or graduate members not active. I am well aware that the terms are different for NPC sororities. It may be beneficial for you to read my final report. You might just learn something .
Thank you for your time and yes-I can tell you are bored.

The problem was that your options for "why I joined my sorority..." is that most of them were very superficial. There was nothing along the lines of "because they showed true sisterhood", which would have been my answer, and I don't think I'm the only one.

AKA Monet had some great points in her post, I think, that would make a difference in your survey. No matter what classes you have taken that make you think you know more about this than we do, your survey really was hopelessly geared toward the stereotypical, and TRULY understanding Greek life is being open to individuality, actually, and not the stereotypes. But then, maybe that's what you're going for.

Also, for your question regarding founders, two options were much the same, and the first was two harsh. Most would probably feel that they fit in the middle...that sometimes people forget, but that it IS a big deal.

[AKA_Monet]

Okey,

You need to matrix up your survey question regarding reasons for joining with a range of 1-5 strongly disagree to strongly agree.

Then you will get percentage numbers of who will reply to those that did not answer the question.

Then there was a transition in 1990's for all NPHC sororities to an actual above ground pledging period to a "membership intake process". Do you really want questions about underground processes that may be inaccurate for the National organizations.

Are you asking WHAT are the differences and similarities? Or are you asking for PERCEPTIONS of the differences and similarities?

Those are 2 different questions. I think you are looking for the PERCEIVED differences and similarities.

One huge similarity is we are all women first...

Then you need to list the school you are doing this for because has this survey been academically reviewed?

[mccoyred]

I am in the middle of the surevy and I can see what folks are saying. The first question asks whether I am in a sorority. If I wasn't then I would not be taking the survey, right?

I clicked on the NPHC link and it says NPHC at the top of the page but the questions are reminiscent of NPC orgs.

Also, for some questions, you would get better data if you allowed multiple selections.

I put n/a on the sorority history information because I am not sure of the point to this section of the survey....


Your project needs a lot of help. Please listen to the sage advice you have been given.

[AlphaFrog]

I still say messageboards are not for homework, but once I clicked on the link I was blinded by Barbie-pink (stereotype, much?). Please. Make it a more normal color, that way you won't blind people.

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I still say messageboards are not for homework, but once I clicked on the link I was blinded by Barbie-pink (stereotype, much?). Please. Make it a more normal color, that way you won't blind people.

Yes, the pink was a little blinding.