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Originally Posted by Hartofsec
Do these chapters actively recruit AA women? What have the chapters you advised done to address recruitment of potential members from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds?
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Very few chapters anywhere actively recruit any specific target group because they are dependent on which women the College Panhellenic in general recruit to participate.
To make this a productive conversation- let's ask - What could College Panhellenics do to get more women of color to go through recruitment? Since most schools promote recruitment through the organization fairs at the beginning of the school year or at freshman orientation, what would help?
I agree that the photos on a group's web site may not be representative of the chapter's actual demographics, that is a place to consider making changes. Photos on websites and in brochures should show women of color (with a variety of physical characteristics, I might add) because someone going to those web sites wants to see that there are members "like them" in some way. If you go to a site and see a bunch of thin women with long blonde hair, blue eyes, all in Lily and you do not fit that mold, you're going to think you wouldn't fit in with them.
Then compare those pics to this one- Hypo's "family" in AXO at Columbia
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