Three Sororities Selected to Present at Northwestern

[alum]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

This has very, very little to do with this thread, but I thought it was interesting. At Wittenberg, there is one chapter with a one-letter designation (ADPi's Chi chapter), but there are two sororities (GPhiB and KD) whose Alpha Nu chapters are on that campus. Funny coincidence!

Could that be because the 2 groups were founded at the same time or that all the sororities were colonized or chartered at the same time? I remember at a couple of schools that we researched that the schools had long histories of local sororities but the university forced the locals to affiliate nationally in order to remain recognized. I think 2 glos happened to have the same chapter designation.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by alum

Could that be because the 2 groups were founded at the same time or that all the sororities were colonized or chartered at the same time? I remember at a couple of schools that we researched that the schools had long histories of local sororities but the university forced the locals to affiliate nationally in order to remain recognized. I think 2 glos happened to have the same chapter designation.

The University of Nebraska not only has many single letter chapter designations, but different chapters with the same letter.

Note: Eleven out of fourteen active chapters have a single letter and three out five inactive. However, not all were chartered before 1900.

Z = AOP and DZ (inactive)
K = DG, DDD and CW
P = GFB and KD
R = AXD and KAQ

FYI: Other chapters with sign letter designation:

Q = SDT (inactive)
M = QFA (inactive)
N = AF
X = ACW
S = KKG

[FSUZeta]

to explain npc expansion in a nutshell:

1. campus panhellenic and administration decide that campus needs another sorority

2. they notify national panhellenic conference hdqtrs. that they are looking to expand

3. npc sends out notification to all npc sororities headquarters

4. all interested npc sororities send an information packet to the school

5. administration and panhellenic officers go thru packets and choose a certain number to make presentations on campus.

6. sororities make presentations

7. campus greek life officers (and perhaps admin.) take a vote on which group they want and extend an invitation to that sorority to colonize.

those voting may vary from campus to campus, but i believe that it usually happens this way.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

to explain npc expansion in a nutshell:

1. campus panhellenic and administration decide that campus needs another sorority

2. they notify national panhellenic conference hdqtrs. that they are looking to expand

3. npc sends out notification to all npc sororities headquarters

4. all interested npc sororities send an information packet to the school

5. administration and panhellenic officers go thru packets and choose a certain number to make presentations on campus.

6. sororities make presentations

7. campus greek life officers (and perhaps admin.) take a vote on which group they want to and extend an invitation to that sorority to colonize.

those voting may vary from campus to campus, but i believe that it usually happens this way.

This doesnt take into consideration that there might be an interest group of women who might want another sorority on campus. I wasn't a part of the original interest group, but I AM a colony member of my chapter, and the reason Alpha Xi Delta was chosen on my campus was because it's the organization that the interest group wanted.

[LPIDelta]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

to explain npc expansion in a nutshell:

1. campus panhellenic and administration decide that campus needs another sorority

2. they notify national panhellenic conference hdqtrs. that they are looking to expand

3. npc sends out notification to all npc sororities headquarters

4. all interested npc sororities send an information packet to the school

5. administration and panhellenic officers go thru packets and choose a certain number to make presentations on campus.

6. sororities make presentations

7. campus greek life officers (and perhaps admin.) take a vote on which group they want to and extend an invitation to that sorority to colonize.

those voting may vary from campus to campus, but i believe that it usually happens this way.

Excellent outline--and I would add that NPC orgs make their decision at different times. Some may only present or send packets to schools where they are willing to establish a chapter, while others may wait to make a decision final decision after presentation etc. As with membership selection, its a different process for each organization and different factors are taken into account.