Do you ever think NPC will add new members?

[33girl]

To the contrary, I think NPC will lose members or splinter.

Right now the groups you mentioned don't have to follow NPC guidelines and while they may be members of college Panhellenics at some schools, that is not the case everywhere. PSR and AOE would likely have to drop their engineering focus (the same way that Alpha Chi Omega dropped their musical focus) and as far as KBG is concerned, well, there's some bad blood there.

I just don't see it happening.

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by 33girl

To the contrary, I think NPC will lose members or splinter.

Right now the groups you mentioned don't have to follow NPC guidelines and while they may be members of college Panhellenics at some schools, that is not the case everywhere. PSR and AOE would likely have to drop their engineering focus (the same way that Alpha Chi Omega dropped their musical focus) and as far as KBG is concerned, well, there's some bad blood there.

I just don't see it happening.

Bad blood? Did they try to join previously and it didn’t work out.

I also have thought of Kappa Delta Phi NAS but I’m not sure how they work in terms of potentially joining.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by 33girl

To the contrary, I think NPC will lose members or splinter.

Good.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by mlanderson

While I agree with this, I also think it would strengthen their membership on their campuses.

Maybe 10-15 years ago. Things are much much different now.

Originally Posted by carnation

Good.

Damn girl. Lol

[naraht]

Originally Posted by 33girl

To the contrary, I think NPC will lose members or splinter.

Right now the groups you mentioned don't have to follow NPC guidelines and while they may be members of college Panhellenics at some schools, that is not the case everywhere. PSR and AOE would likely have to drop their engineering focus (the same way that Alpha Chi Omega dropped their musical focus) and as far as KBG is concerned, well, there's some bad blood there.

I just don't see it happening.

Right now, the question is what is more likely to splinter the NPC. 1) Differences in size between the largest and the smallest or 2) some attempt to force consistency on the issue of trans women. (I don't really see anything else jumping up in the near term.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by naraht

Right now, the question is what is more likely to splinter the NPC. 1) Differences in size between the largest and the smallest or 2) some attempt to force consistency on the issue of trans women. (I don't really see anything else jumping up in the near term.

Differences in size is more likely to splinter NPC.

The eight sororities that became full NPC members in 1951 were smaller in chapter number and initiate number, on and since that date, than the other established NPC groups.

I wish I understood what those eight smaller sororities looked forward to by joining forces with the larger groups, and how those desires were and were not fulfilled through the years.

When I look at Indiana University's most recent NPC expansions, the need for additional groups was there but having all the new groups meet quota and/or have permanent housing has been a struggle.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Differences in size is more likely to splinter NPC.

The eight sororities that became full NPC members in 1951 were smaller in chapter number and initiate number, on and since that date, than the other established NPC groups.

I wish I understood what those eight smaller sororities looked forward to by joining forces with the larger groups, and how those desires were and were not fulfilled through the years.

When I look at Indiana University's most recent NPC expansions, the need for additional groups was there but having all the new groups meet quota and/or have permanent housing has been a struggle.

Is it a significant gap? I picked a prior to 1951 NPC sorority that I wasn't familiar with and a 1951 NPC full sorority I sort of was and at least looking at wikipedia, the gap doesn't look huge.

According to Wikipedia.
Sigma Kappa - (Founded 1874 - joined NPC in 1905) - 119 undergraduate chapters 226K lifetime members.
Delta Phi Epsilon - (Founded 1913 - Joined NPC in 1951) - 150+ chapters, 115 active chapters, 60K Lifetime members.

Now I know Wikipedia may be reporting different things (and I'd love an NPC report I could work from to be sure the comparison is apples to apples).