Question: Does anyone ever see the NPC allowing inclusion of a 27th group?

[tallgreekalum]

What happened in 1951? Did NPC change it's admission policy that year?

[fantASTic]

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?

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

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?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

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.

Originally Posted by tallgreekalum

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.