What’s the backup plan for recruitment in August?

[shirley1929]

Hearing (from a sorority chapter member, but not confirmed in writing) that UT-Austin will be doing virtual recruitment this fall. The active I heard it from was told by their chapter Panhellenic representative. This is a BIG recruitment...

Anyone else hearing anything...?

[UVASquirrel]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

Hearing (from a sorority chapter member, but not confirmed in writing) that UT-Austin will be doing virtual recruitment this fall. The active I heard it from was told by their chapter Panhellenic representative. This is a BIG recruitment...

Anyone else hearing anything...?

From what I'm hearing, most seem to like the hybrid recruitment that was put out by NPC. The more I experience different things on zoom, the more I think it's doable for even the larger schools. I was in a recruitment seminar zoom yesterday with over 160 people. we were able to break out into smaller groups for a minute or two and then re-join the bigger group. It worked really well. I could see that working pretty well for the first round...even up to the third round. Have prefs be in person.

The other thing that intrigued me was the idea of doing the initial round with the cameras turned off ...let everyone make their judgement based on personality and not looks. Of course with recs still being required most of them will have head shots anyway

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by UVASquirrel

From what I'm hearing, most seem to like the hybrid recruitment that was put out by NPC. The more I experience different things on zoom, the more I think it's doable for even the larger schools. I was in a recruitment seminar zoom yesterday with over 160 people. we were able to break out into smaller groups for a minute or two and then re-join the bigger group. It worked really well. I could see that working pretty well for the first round...even up to the third round. Have prefs be in person.

The other thing that intrigued me was the idea of doing the initial round with the cameras turned off ...let everyone make their judgement based on personality and not looks. Of course with recs still being required most of them will have head shots anyway

Was this a rush meeting for UVA or your sorority-local chapter only, regional, or national?

Prefs in person after only Zoom meet and greets might be better than nothing at all, but if a girl attends pref she is somewhere on the chapter's bid list.

Cookie, many gen.ed classes are already online so that wouldn't be a new thing, at least at medium-large colleges.

[UVASquirrel]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

Was this a rush meeting for UVA or your sorority-local chapter only, regional, or national?

Prefs in person after only Zoom meet and greets might be better than nothing at all, but if a girl attends pref she is somewhere on the chapter's bid list.

Cookie, many gen.ed classes are already online so that wouldn't be a new thing, at least at medium-large colleges.

It was nationwide. There were reps from collegiate Panhellenic Councils, greek life offices, women who work at their sorority HQ's, etc. I was just an interested bystander. The woman who led the meeting is an Alpha Gam and she is a public speaker, so she speaks at a lot of greek events and different campuses.

[AnchorAlumna]

LSU just indefinitely postponed sorority recruitment registration.