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Old 04-09-2007, 04:18 PM
TSteven TSteven is offline
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Seeing how Sigma Lambda Gamma is a member of NALFO, I would say no.
Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Lambda Theta Phi, Phi Iota Alpha, and Sigma Lambda Beta fraternities are all members of the NIC as well as the NALFO. Why couldn't a sorority be a member of both councils (NPC and NALFO) if so allowed?
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:31 PM
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Sorry, I didn't see the previous posts.

NIC members in the NALFO
Lambda Sigma Upsilon
Lambda Theta Phi
Phi Iota Alpha
Sigma Lambda Beta

NIC members in the NPHC
Alpha Phi Alpha
Iota Phi Theta
Kappa Alpha Psi
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:35 PM
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Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Lambda Theta Phi, Phi Iota Alpha, and Sigma Lambda Beta fraternities are all members of the NIC as well as the NALFO. Why couldn't a sorority be a member of both councils (NPC and NALFO) if so allowed?

Did not realize this as it used to take 15 years to become a member of NIC.

Times must have changed, but I am in no way knowledgeable about NPC!

It usually takes a long time to get into any National Governing Body.

What was the last Sorority that was accepted in NPC?
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:44 PM
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The twenty-six member organizations of the National Panhellenic Conference are listed below with their entrance date into NPC. Chairmanship rotation within NPC is based upon the date of entrance into the Conference.

Pi Beta Phi - 1902

Kappa Alpha Theta - 1902

Kappa Kappa Gamma - 1902

Alpha Phi - 1902

Delta Gamma - 1902

Gamma Phi Beta - 1902

Alpha Chi Omega - 1903

Delta Delta Delta - 1902

Alpha Xi Delta - 1904

Chi Omega - 1903

Sigma Kappa - 1905

Alpha Omicron Pi - 1905

Zeta Tau Alpha - 1909

Alpha Gamma Delta - 1909

Alpha Delta Pi - 1909

Delta Zeta - 1910

Phi Mu - 1911

Kappa Delta - 1912

Sigma Sigma Sigma - 1951

Alpha Sigma Tau - 1951

Alpha Sigma Alpha - 1951

Alpha Epsilon Phi - 1951

Theta Phi Alpha - 1951

Phi Sigma Sigma - 1951

Delta Phi Epsilon - 1951

Sigma Delta Tau - 1951
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Old 04-09-2007, 08:17 PM
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What happened in 1951? Did NPC change it's admission policy that year?
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Old 04-09-2007, 08:26 PM
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Would joining NPC help people's membership to grow? I'm not sure how the recruitment for non-NPC works; I know the Divine Nine, on my campus, do "if you are interested, you contact us" for recruitment and do fairly well. But wouldn't being able to be a part of formal recruitment help? Or can non-NPC groups participate in that?
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Old 04-09-2007, 08:47 PM
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Would joining NPC help people's membership to grow? I'm not sure how the recruitment for non-NPC works; I know the Divine Nine, on my campus, do "if you are interested, you contact us" for recruitment and do fairly well. But wouldn't being able to be a part of formal recruitment help? Or can non-NPC groups participate in that?
I think joining NPC would help because there are lots of people (myself included) that didn't come from areas where sorority membership was something you know about all your life. Having any kind of structured recruitment with a governing council makes recruitment more visible (in my opinion) so you have more of a chance of getting people that may not have otherwise thought of joining greek life.

I don't know how NAFLO-based orgs do their recruitment, but if it's anything like it was on my old campus, they would just approach random girls in the square or student union and hand out fliers and try to to find people interested that way.

I don't know if it [joining NPC] would help smaller regional/local sororities grow because formal recruitment usually puts a cap (quota) on the number of women you can bring in, whereas if they did not join NPC, they could take 100-new member classes if they had the interest. At the same time, NPC-recruitment does not guarantee a chapter's success (as far as membership growing). They may extend 50 bids, but maybe only 15 of them end up "matching".

I think there are lots of variables that would have to be taken into consideration before determining if it's the best thing for the organization.

I would guess that restrictions on expansion, and recruitment are some of the main factors that keep non-affiliated regional sororities from trying to join NPC.

Additionally, if they want to remain small chapters, they can if they stay regional and won't be "pressured" to grow if they don't want to. There may be a school with 6 chapters for example, 4 of which are consistently at or above total, 1 that is trailing maybe 40 or 50 members behind, and another house that has only a handful of members.

I think on some campuses where local or regional sororities are affilate members, they may or may not participate in formal recruitment?

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Old 04-10-2007, 09:59 AM
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Isn't Kappa Alpha Psi and Iota Phi Theta also members of the NIC? I think the difference is that NIC is different than NPC in that NPC orgs have all agreed to run membership recruitment within a specific system, while NIC hasn't (please correct me if I'm wrong NPC'ers). So given that Sigma Lambda Gamma's recruitment style is more similar to NPHC orgs, it would probably be difficult to switch to a different style if they became members of NPC.
This pretty much hits the nail on the head.

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What happened in 1951? Did NPC change it's admission policy that year?
1951 was the year that the former members of the AES became full members. There are only 3 left out of the original AES 6. That same year 5 other groups were admitted, several of which had a religious foundation.
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