FuzzieAlum, it sounds like your campus has bigger problems than the quota total system. Most of my campuses have about 65% or 75% retention rate b/w sing-up and pledging. As a Panhellenic you guys should really meet and talk about why these women are not showing up for rush or are dropping out. Are the chapters dropping more people than they should be? Does being unhoused make the smaller groups even less desirable? If these discussions don't lead to anything your group should consider contacting your NPC area advisor and talking to her about your concerns. If Panhellenic has the money to fund it you can even request a visit from an NPC team to review what is going on and recommend changes to improve greek participation on your campus. [/B][/QUOTE]
This isn't something I really want to talk about on a message board, I hope that makes sense. I am an alum and I don't live anywhere near my university, so it makes it more difficult for me to find out what is really going on.
I can state these things for sure: Six, seven years ago, quota was regularly around 12-13 girls. Ceiling hasn't changed. The number of girls going through rush has dropped. The campus still hasn't switched to a no-frills rush, and it's not exactly a frilly campus. I wouldn't trust the Greek Life advisor as far as I could throw him, either.
I can tell you that being unhoused is a HUGE problem. When that chapter was founded, no sorority had a house. As Greek Life gave chapters houses, they were last in line because they were youngest. But as more chapters got houses, they used it as a selling point and not having a house made recruitment more difficult. Now rushees regularly say, "Oh, you don't have a house. What makes you a real sorority?" The other small chapter has the least desirable of all the sorority houses.
On the other hand, not all the problems are external to the smaller chapters, and that's not the kind of laundry I want to air in public.
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