NPC Recruitment & Chapter Listing: Fall 2013-Spring 2014

[33girl]

Originally Posted by mlanderson

St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI just announced they are going to change from spring deferred recruitment to a fall formal recruitment period. The interest in Greek Life has definitely gone up and they want to keep those freshman interested before they get too involved with other on-campus organizations.

Dates are September 25-27th, 2014 with Bid Day on September 28th, 2014.

This is horrible reasoning. If the choir or AMA or hall council honestly prevents someone from getting involved with Greek life, Greek life didn't have much to offer to begin with.

[mlanderson]

Originally Posted by 33girl

This is horrible reasoning. If the choir or AMA or hall council honestly prevents someone from getting involved with Greek life, Greek life didn't have much to offer to begin with.

I would normally agree with you, but being a chapter adviser and watching/learning the campus culture, it's will definitely help. They are a small, residential liberal arts college and EVERYONE is involved in 3-4 different organizations. Many of our freshman new members this semester were already officers of their residential halls and some of the other larger service groups on campus. Students here come to join and most already know what things they want to be involved with. It has definitely changed from the students in the past.

[Beryana]

Originally Posted by mlanderson

I would normally agree with you, but being a chapter adviser and watching/learning the campus culture, it's will definitely help. They are a small, residential liberal arts college and EVERYONE is involved in 3-4 different organizations. Many of our freshman new members this semester were already officers of their residential halls and some of the other larger service groups on campus. Students here come to join and most already know what things they want to be involved with. It has definitely changed from the students in the past.

When I attended SNC (mid-90s) many first-semester freshmen could join independent/non-greek social organizations but not join greeks until 2nd semester. First semester you could go through rush first semester and express interest, but not actually get a bid until going through rush the 2nd semester. Things have probably changed across the board with independent social groups and overall greek recruitment in the past 20 years (it was locals and Kappa Beta Gamma when I was there), but being allowed to do fall recruitment and have freshmen join their first semester IS a big deal (in reply to 33girl's post).

[PanseyGirl]

Today is bid day at Stanford University and I think the last formal recruitment of the 2013-14 recruitment season.