How long does it take for a colony to become a chapter in your organization?

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Originally Posted by AGDee

I've not seen one of our colonies take more than a semester. The colonizaton/recolonization occurs early in the semester and they are installed by the end of that semester. We do have a special volunteer team that continues to work with them while they are a new chapter (new chapter development) and it can take some time for them to be removed from that status. That is just to ensure that they receive a lot of extra support until they are financially, organizationally, and numerically stable.

I'm curious.. when it takes longer than a semester and a colonist ends up graduating before the colony is installed, what happens with their membership?

I agree with AGDee. My sense is with NPC that unless there are major problems evident very early on (eg small size, way below campus total) NPC sororities will generally send the colony through the standard new member program and initiate them at the end of that time. For Pi Phi, for example, that would be 8 weeks.

Of course there could be exceptions that I'm not aware of, and as noted if there are issues with the colony it might be extended. One example of this on campus is that the year before Pi Phi tried to colonize, another NPC tried to colonize, and it quickly became evident the colony wasn't successful so they gave up almost immediately, before initiation occurred.