Recruitment Help!!!!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Don't blame your PR chair! If you leave everything up to your PR chair when it comes to "advertising" for recruitment, you're going to be disappointed. Are the two of you working together to come up with the best ideas for the chapter?

Well, in this case, yeah, I WOULD blame the PR chair.

It just sounds like the OP is being given all of the responsibility of rush and getting numbers up, but being continually hamstrung with 1) sisters who insist on doing things the same way they have always done them, even if those methods don't yield jack sqaut 2) sisters who volunteer for things and don't follow through 3) sisters who don't understand rush is THE WHOLE CHAPTER'S job.

I'm sure there are more than a few closed chapters of your org who would happy to tell your chapter sisters in no uncertain terms that if they keep going the way they are, they are headed for EPIC FAIL. While I agree with KSUViolet that thinking "OMG we're going to lose our charter" all the time and always comparing yourself isn't good - it seems like the chapter needs that kind of wakeup call. It's like they think "well, it hasn't happened yet, so it never will."

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, in this case, yeah, I WOULD blame the PR chair.

It just sounds like the OP is being given all of the responsibility of rush and getting numbers up, but being continually hamstrung with 1) sisters who insist on doing things the same way they have always done them, even if those methods don't yield jack sqaut 2) sisters who volunteer for things and don't follow through 3) sisters who don't understand rush is THE WHOLE CHAPTER'S job.

Right, it's the whole chapter's job. So just like the OP doesn't want to get blamed for only getting 6 girls, she shouldn't place the blame on only one person, either.

Essentially, almost every position is a position of the entire chapter (or at least of a committee). Everyone needs help, and everyone needs to communicate with one another. And if the Recruitment Chair would like things done a certain way by the PR Chair, then they need to communicate and work with one another.

I think we need more information about the situation in order to decide who dropped the ball on that one.

(But again, PR isn't the sole reason that new members join).

And let's face it... I'm sure that the OP isn't the ONLY person in the chapter who isn't completely apathetic. If that was the case, they'd already be looking at an inactive chapter. There have to be some sisters who are willing to help.