Do you ever think NPC will add new members?

[carnation]

We dropped our chapter at Wake Forest and many of the members became KBGs. I think they rush with NPC. I've been told that it's the members who did not like rules went KBG, so I don't know if they would welcome NPC rules.

[chitownxo]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

Questions:

#1- Could those three organizations become associate members?

#2- Does anyone know of any campus where KBG participates in recruitment?

KBG participates in recruitment at Wake Forest.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by mlanderson

There have been the same 26 organizations since 1951. There are quite a few social sororities/women's fraternities that could fit the bill and many of them are associate members of the local college panellenics.

Do you think NPC will ever add new member organizations? If so, which do you think are the most positioned to be granted admission?

I think:

Alpha Omega Epsilon
Kappa Beta Gamma
Phi Sigma Rho

That is incorrect, the last change to membership in the NPC was in 1971 when Iota Alpha Pi dissolved itself.

[FSUZeta]

As it stands now, NPC and the collegiate panhellenics do not hold sway over any member sorority’s membership criteria or who they select for membership.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

As it stands now, NPC and the collegiate panhellenics do not hold sway over any member sorority’s membership criteria or who they select for membership.

So (to pick a large sorority), Delta Delta Delta could go fully co-ed (allowing all undergraduate students) without putting its NPC membership in automatic jeopardy?

(I know the NIC has at least one member (don't remember which) that has some co-ed chapters) I don't know for other GLO umbrella groups.

[33girl]

They could go fully coed but if they did that, they most likely wouldn't participate in all of formal rush. Then again, to be blunt, men aren't usually trying to get into women's groups, it's the other way around.

The NIC and NPC are so different in what they do as umbrellas there really isn't a comparison. Also the reason some fraternities went coed (by chapter or in toto) was because the majority of the schools they were at went from all male to coed.

Oh and in answer to Lane's question I think that the campuses KBG does do formal rush at are the less traditional ones with smaller systems.

[*winter*]

So, theoretically, NPC wouldn’t be able to tell the STEM organizations not to only select STEM members…but I couldn’t imagine them meeting quota with only STEM at larger schools. I guess that’s what I was getting at.

(Although I’m quite impressed with- in terms of non-NPC organizations- how large some of the chapters are at many campuses! They’re doing really well in their own right. For example, I know someone whose daughter is considering Syracuse for a STEM major. The AOE chapter gets PCs between 20-30, whereas NPC total is 215…I am pretty sure their quota is much higher than, say, 25, but I don’t have time to find actual numbers RN.)