Expansion/Colony question

[UGAalum94]

When groups go onto a campus to start a new chapter, what determines the number of new members that the expansion team can select?

Is it recommended that they start with quota from the previous year and build up or would they try to get total if there were that many good PNMs?

It just seems like it would be a kind of strange situation since you could assume every PNM would accept a bid but you might not want every PNM.

In regular recruitment there are some limits built in that might help guide you, but in expansion, how would you know where to draw the line?

(I apologize if this has been asked and answered. It seems kind of familiar, but I can't remember the answer.)

[KSUViolet06]

Our expansion teams usually decide that number based on the average chapter size on that particular campus.

[FSUZeta]

ditto.

[Cruise4fun]

I am on the Alumnae Advisory Board for a colony. The colony is the first NPC organization on campus. Our National Organization did an evaulation of the campus to determine the number. The colony is required to have 40 members for installation. During colonization weekend, 27 members were pinned.

ETA: The interest group had about 80. However when most of them realized the GPA and dues requirement, many dropped there interest.

[sigma3princess]

I was a member of a Tri Sigma colony for 2 years before we were installed in February of last year. The expansion team held various interest meetings and PNMs went through the same membership selection process as they would in the sorority now. Some interested women did not receive an invitation to join.

I believe the team could not extend more than 50 invitations (or total). They actually did not extend that many. It was then up to the first group of new members to immediatley begin holding CORs/COBs to reach optimum membership.

[AlwaysSAI]

I have a question about colonies and maybe this differs with each organization, but members of a colony are not initiated right? They are like a probationary chapter that has to achieve certain things before being installed, right?

I was just wondering because we had a colony a few years ago that would display the letters and I just wasn't sure. I thought that they weren't initiated yet, but are they?