NPC adding new council members--do you think it could/will happen?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Well, in fairness, this is an NPC thread :-)

Touché.

Although it's also about non-NPC sororities attempting to come into the NPC, so some consideration of other ways of doing things may come into play. And when the discussion turns to "councils," then that does widen the scope.

Do you not feel that the councils help with the things I've mentioned? I've just given specific examples of how they help with university relationships, and if you want specifics on housing, I'm happy to get into details.

As a general across-the-board rule, no I don't think that umbrella organizations necessarily help with the three things you mentioned. I don't think we noticed any difference as to those three things when we decided to leave the umbrella organization we used to belong to. Frankly, as far as I can tell, we haven't noticed any difference at all.

With the first two (insurance and housing), I think the size, resources and bargaining power of the specific organization are much more important. (And as mentioned, housing isn't really an issue for many orgs.) As for university relations, my experience is that colleges and universities that have a concern (1) want orgs to be accountable to a national entity and (2) find a local council (sometimes an inappropriate one*) to stick the chapter in.


* The example you gave of a non-NPC org being forced by the university to join the CPH would be an example of inappropriate. That's the school trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. If it wants every org to be part of a campus coucil, then it needs to make sure there's a campus council appropriate for every org, even if that means IFC, CPH, NPHC and "other."