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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I agree. You would also lose sorority houses since filling them would become a problem is you switched to the NPHC system of recruitment. In many ways, though, I like the way that NPC does it because there are often women who join that would not have gone through the trouble of researching and waiting to join a group that have ended up highly active alumnae and have contributed a lot to our organizations. NPC needs to find a way to convince the women that do go through our system that there is more to membership than just 4 years. Maybe recruiting our seniors into our alum groups and advisory councils like you recruit NMs would be feasible.
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We also deal with this issue since not all NPHC members remain active after college, especially among the fraternities. One way to convince members to remain active is to talk to them about it early, while they're still undergrads and to reinforce the idea of life commitment throughout their college years. For example, we have retention and reactivation committees which focus on keeping members active and encouraging members that are no longer active to reactivate. While not all members will transfer into an alumnae chapter immediately following college graduation, many will reactivate at some point in their lives because they made a life commitment and they want to honor it. Also most members feel that their organization's commitment to the community and national programming is valuable and necessary. They also know that it's the alumnae members that run the organizations so without them, the organizations cannot prosper.
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