Sorority Expansion

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

5 NPC sororities have chartered and closed at your campus. One closed as recently as 2008. Your panhellenic likely has very valid reasons for declining to expand at this time.

This. What are the circumstances regarding all of these chapters? (Not expecting absolute answers, but it's something to think about.)

Forming a new chapter or recolonizing a closed one takes a lot of effort - lots of time, money, alumni/ae support, I/NHQ support, school interest and student interest. The reasons why so many NPC chapters have left might still be relevant. I don't know. But imagine all the time, money, man-power and resources that were spent maintaining all of those chapters, only to have them close. If you build a house on mud and it sinks, are you going to build another on such unstable ground?

You didn't share the history of NPC chapters on your campus, nor did you expound on what a "bad week" means. We can only guess what that means, so it's hard to agree with you.

[AGDAlum]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

You didn't share the history of NPC chapters on your campus....

Actually, there IS an extensive history of the SIU Panhellenic. A friend of mine who lives in Carbondale wrote it as a graduate history project. (Her doctoral dissertation is about the early years of NPC.)

I've read both, but I don't remember the details of the SIU history. (Hey, I'm pleased that I remembered that my friend had written it.)

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

Actually, there IS an extensive history of the SIU Panhellenic. A friend of mine who lives in Carbondale wrote it as a graduate history project. (Her doctoral dissertation is about the early years of NPC.)

I've read both, but I don't remember the details of the SIU history. (Hey, I'm pleased that I remembered that my friend had written it.)

We hear from a number of people on here that they are writing a "paper" about Greek life, and never hear from them again. Is your friend's dissertation something for public consumption and available to read online?

My point is that the OP was complaining about the process for bringing a new NPC chapter on campus, without telling us that a handful had closed in recent years.