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Beginning of semester update:
As a chapter we are very optimistic for the coming semester. With permission from our nationals, we have extended bids to several women already, and are looking forward to the fun recruitment events our COR committee has planned in the coming weeks to help build up our NM class even more. So far, this is the largest informal NM class we have had since I have joined, which is very very promising as their NM classes haven't even begun yet! We have an officer from our Nationals coming to visit this week to help kick off the semester's recruiting efforts in a really positive light, and I think it will be very effective for the rest of the chapter. A lot of us are still very burnt out on open recruiting, myself included, but the recruitment committee and alum advisors have finally realized that pressuring us to recruit 35 women in 6 weeks is extraordinarily unlikely for our campus, and that smaller goals are the way to go, which I am thrilled about. It helps that we have some new women on our advisory board who are more recent graduates from other schools, so they have lots of fresh ideas that we are hoping will be successful on our campus as well.
My school's Panhellenic does not hold any kind of a formalized spring recruitment like some other schools do, as there is simply not enough need; all open recruitment is up to the chapters. Because of this, the sororities significantly under total (ie more than 2 or 3 women, though this number depends on the sorority of course) have taken it up on ourselves the past few years to implement our own "formalized" informal recruitment weekend event, where we work together to hold house tours, mixers, etc on the same weekend and encourage women to attend events at all the houses that are open recruiting, and this is coming up soon. It has been very successful for us in the past, plus it's great practice for the newest initiates for formal recruitment, so we're very excited for this year's event and hoping it goes well.
As far as numbers go, we are beginning the semester about 20 under total, which is AMAZING. We have the potential to make total through formal recruitment next fall, which would be the first time we hit total maybe ever. I am not sure when my campus implemented a campus total, but I can almost guarantee we have never consistently been at total - maybe reach it one semester, then have a bunch of women graduate + drop and not be able to recoup the numbers, that sort of situation.
I know this isn't an overly exciting update, but I know how much you all love success stories, and as things are beginning to finally look up for my chapter, so I wanted to share anyway.
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