From colony to getting chartered - what happens if a sorority won't get chartered?

[amIblue?]

I don't understand the initiation and no charter thing, either.

[AOII Angel]

I guess it's pretty hard to function for two years without initiating people at some point. Tp the OP, if you've been initiated, you would have lifetime membership. Different organizations handle what status it makes you when chapters/colonies close. Try speaking with your designated delegate from HQ about the situation. She may have more information for you, and tips for your colony to improve your recruiting.

[Shellfish]

To go off topic a bit, a strange situation I know of occurred when a chapter repeatedly was found to have hazed. Their national didn't close them but just made the chapter a colony. I don't understand how a regular chapter could be pulled back to colony status.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by Shellfish

To go off topic a bit, a strange situation I know of occurred when a chapter repeatedly was found to have hazed. Their national didn't close them but just made the chapter a colony. I don't understand how a regular chapter could be pulled back to colony status.

I know many NPC groups are hesitant to close chapters because extension rules make coming back in a timely manner difficult and uncertain. It sounds like the group did some crafty by-laws interpretation to revoke the group's charter and immediately establish a colony at that university. Whether or not that would have actually been kosher from the standpoint of the university and the NPC is debatable. I would guess this is a university that it would be very desirable to have a chapter at?

/tangential swerve

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

I know many NPC groups are hesitant to close chapters because extension rules make coming back in a timely manner difficult and uncertain. It sounds like the group did some crafty by-laws interpretation to revoke the group's charter and immediately establish a colony at that university. Whether or not that would have actually been kosher from the standpoint of the university and the NPC is debatable. I would guess this is a university that it would be very desirable to have a chapter at?

/tangential swerve

This is more common than you think. As long as there are collegiate members, the group may maintain its status as a member of the CPH. So, you can kick out all of your members but one, wait until she is a senior, pledge a single new member, wait until she is a senior, and then recruit again, with a 6-year "break", but without going through the competition of expansion.

[MysticCat]

^^^ And don't some groups have a reorganization status for chapters? Is it possible that for them, reorganization status is essentially like colony status?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Wait, did the OP ever say this was an NPC group?

[melindawarren]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Wait, did the OP ever say this was an NPC group?

Come to mention it, there's no actual reference to NPC, just formal vs. informal recruitment, which could mean a local or non-NPC National. But a local local (not affiliated with any other schools, but the Alpha and only chapter) wouldn't need a charter at all, would it?

I feel like this is NPC, though.

[Shellfish]

This national did expel some members but not all of them. I always thought that the colony thing was done to make it look like some disciplinary action was being taken. Some years earlier, they also did a sort of reorganization in which they put all current members on alum status and immediately absorbed a local, so it was like they were never off campus at all and didn't lose any of the privileges of Panhel membership.

[ILove2BGreek]

I am in an NPC organization.

Our colony will most likely shut down next year in Spring .. we need about 20 to 30 people to be able to stay on campus and I'm kinda not optimistic anymore. I am sad to say this but I have given up.

There is another sorority which will be coming to my campus soon as a colony and maybe I could join that other colony but my organization kind of binds me to life after I am initiated - and I was initiated a long while back.

Right now my options are to disaffiliate and not join any other organization and not be a part of my organization anymore ... or maybe - if I will be able to contct my national - be able to join that other colony. I really don't know what to do.

Be a part of my orgnaization until we shut down and be an alumni, disaffiliate and live in an apartment or something - or try to join another colony .. which is officially not really possible.

What should I do? How could I contact national and ask them to release me from my bonds? I really do feel betrayed. Betrayed and sad.

[Always AlphaGam]

Originally Posted by ILove2BGreek

I am in an NPC organization.

Our colony will most likely shut down next year in Spring .. we need about 20 to 30 people to be able to stay on campus and I'm kinda not optimistic anymore. I am sad to say this but I have given up.

There is another sorority which will be coming to my campus soon as a colony and maybe I could join that other colony but my organization kind of binds me to life after I am initiated - and I was initiated a long while back.

Right now my options are to disaffiliate and not join any other organization and not be a part of my organization anymore ... or maybe - if I will be able to contct my national - be able to join that other colony. I really don't know what to do.

Be a part of my orgnaization until we shut down and be an alumni, disaffiliate and live in an apartment or something - or try to join another colony .. which is officially not really possible.

What should I do? How could I contact national and ask them to release me from my bonds? I really do feel betrayed. Betrayed and sad.

There is no "kind of." You ARE bound.

Since you are an initiated member of an NPC organization, you do not have the option to join another. Even if you ask to have your membership terminated, you will not be able to join another group.

[sigmagirl2000]

Originally Posted by ILove2BGreek

Right now my options are to disaffiliate and not join any other organization and not be a part of my organization anymore ... or maybe - if I will be able to contct my national - be able to join that other colony. I really don't know what to do.

Be a part of my orgnaization until we shut down and be an alumni, disaffiliate and live in an apartment or something - or try to join another colony .. which is officially not really possible.

...Lane swerve - Is there something wrong with me because I did a little happy dance to myself upon reading that there's finally an OP who wants to be "a part" of their org rather than "apart" of one?

end swerve...

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

...Lane swerve - Is there something wrong with me because I did a little happy dance to myself upon reading that there's finally an OP who wants to be "a part" of their org rather than "apart" of one?

end swerve...

This is a hijack or tangent, not a lane swerve. A lane swerve is NPCers in a NPHC thread, or a guy in a sorority recruitment thread.

[gebbie]

[QUOTE=ILove2BGreek;2155079]I am in an NPC organization.

Our colony will most likely shut down next year in Spring .. we need about 20 to 30 people to be able to stay on campus and I'm kinda not optimistic anymore. I am sad to say this but I have given up.


If you really have given up, then sure, you're org will probably be gone by spring. I think that is a self fulfilling prophecy.
If I were in this boat, I would work my tail off to recruit 20 - 30 more girls. It is undoubtably a tough and frustrating situation to be in, but if you want to remain on campus... you need to recruit. As a whole, you and your sisters need to come together and face this challenge.
Do your research (lots of GCers have suggested material) and hit the ground running in the fall with a positive public image (Everyone wearing cute letters, XYZ water bottles, be present and active on campus, participate in everything you can as an individual and as an org!)

As several women have pointed out, since you are an initiated member, you cannot choose to rush another sorority. THIS is your sorority, your sisterhood. You can either do everything you can to keep it on campus, or you can give up and watch it crumble.

[ILove2BGreek]

Is there really no way?

Because it seems that other sororities, other colonies - members there do seem to have the option to join another organization just like that.

And with my colony, with my organization - I was just initiated and then told that oops, we will probably have to shut down, sorry .. but at least you'll be an alumni.

This just seems super unfair to me.