Schools with most inactive NPC chapters

[exlurker]

Just on the basis of a few schools on "the list" that I'm familiar with, it looks to me like current NPC orgs are the ones included. The list might look slightly different if it included the former NPC groups -- Alpha Delta Theta, Delta Sigma Epsilon, Pi Kappa Sigma, Theta Sigma Upsilon, Phi Omega Pi, Theta Upsilon, Beta Phi Alpha and Beta Sigma Omicron. In some cases those sororities had chapters that became inactive before a group merged with / was absorbed by another NPC org.

However, digging for that information might be a lot more trouble than it would be worth.

And of course a similar list for fraternities -- well, men's fraternities, for those of us who strive to be hypercorrect when we remember to be -- might be be difficult, and huge.

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Just on the basis of a few schools on "the list" that I'm familiar with, it looks to me like current NPC orgs are the ones included. The list might look slightly different if it included the former NPC groups -- Alpha Delta Theta, Delta Sigma Epsilon, Pi Kappa Sigma, Theta Sigma Upsilon, Phi Omega Pi, Theta Upsilon, Beta Phi Alpha and Beta Sigma Omicron. In some cases those sororities had chapters that became inactive before a group merged with / was absorbed by another NPC org.

Yep! One example would be UCLA. When it became part of the UC system around 1920, sororities flooded the place. In 1930 there were 35 sororities on campus....all housed! These were NPC, now former NPC and locals. It slowly dwindled down to the current 11 over the course of 70 years.

University of Maryland, on the other hand, only had a few locals that quickly became chapters of NPCs starting in the mid-1920s. The number of chapters grew over the next 30-40 years peaking at 18. Now there are 14.

The point is that you can't make one definative statement about how expansion could work or does work for campuses so drastically different from eachother.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

For what it is I think it's interesting. And I think we all know that extension isn't something that you just fling a chapter at a wall and hope it sticks. You really do have to investigate the financial, school, city, traditions, general activity, and enrollment aspects as well.

I don' really sit around in misery and my own group is pretty much at the top. Nor do I feel "better" about the ones at the bottom. It's a list, it's just some information. It is what it is and it's kinda interesting that someone did the work so I could see a different aspect of this issue.