NPC Recruitment & Chapter Listing: Fall 2015-Spring 2016

[irishpipes]

Because nothing short of a miracle will save a chapter like that. Nothing, not even magical RFM, can force young women to pledge a chapter they just don't want. RFM can help, or delay the inevitable, but some chapters just aren't viable, and the system may need expansion to help other chapters and give PNMs an option they will consider. Expansion can speed up the death of a weak chapter, but it usually was already in a death spiral.

[Griffins&Quills]

Ah that all makes sense. I guess I was thinking of the girls who would normally go to that WRC but because there's a colony, instead of putting that chapter down, and giving it a shot, they drop out with the mentality "well, I'll just get a bid from the colony"

[clemsongirl]

I think we forget sometimes that while RFM is great for increasing a PNM's realistic options by forcing her to return to groups she has more of a chance at, at the end of the day it can't force a girl to join a WRC if she would rather implode than accept that bid. I see it happen a lot on my campus where many girls, especially sophomores, will draw a line in the sand and say "I will not accept a bid/pref invite from any chapter 'below' XYZ" and then withdraw from recruitment if those chapters she deems unworthy are her only choices. During recruitment I remember looking around the holding room the PNMs were in and seeing a line to go into one chapter's pref party that was easily twice as long as the others, and that chapter still didn't make quota that year.

RFM may not be able to save those spiraling chapters, but I do think it does a good job at helping prevent those chapters from entering that spiral based solely on formal recruitment, because the number of girls each chapter invites back can be adjusted year-by-year.

Also, at the Pi Phi presentation at Clemson on Monday they mentioned that of the 240 girls in their Delaware colony, only 15 had gone through formal recruitment and then withdrawn. Some of that might have had to do with them having deferred recruitment and girls who are sophomores or juniors not bothering with formal, but I was still surprised at how few had done so.

[33girl]

Also, if some of these expansions are for interest groups (official or non-official) it does Panhel no good to block an expansion in hopes that "if the women want to be Greek, they can just go to the struggling chapter. " My chapter voted in favor of expansions twice, despite the fact we were under total and our national was against it, because we knew that all a negative vote would do was make us look like big pouty pantses. It certainly wouldn't compel 2 very strongly bonded groups of women to join us.

That all being said, I think the stacking is winding down as we get to the last od the baby boom's kids.

[3DGator]

Stanford begins formal recruitment tonight. I think that it will end formal recruitment for 2015-16.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by 3DGator

Stanford begins formal recruitment tonight. I think that it will end formal recruitment for 2015-16.

Yep. They're always the last to go! Now we just need to wrap up all of the pending extension decisions.

[ZTAngel]

Our chapter at Ohio State was activated this weekend.

[Just interested]

Congratulations to Zeta Tau Alpha. I saw pictures of the banquet from a KD FB friend of mine who was there. She said they had over 600 at the banquet. Well done!

[3DGator]

Stanford had a very successful recruitment. Quota was set a 52 ( the highest that it has ever been ). All sororities made quota, many with quota additions. I do not know the exact number for each sorority. The retention rate was 87%, which is the highest that it has ever been. There is expansion talk.

[3DGator]

Stanford

DDD- has 55 new Pearls

[mullingal]

Butler KKG has 44 new owls.

[Blue2]

Indiana State University Spring Informal Recruitment 2016:

GPhiB = 7
APhi = 10
ChiO = 10

[KDKells]

More Kappa Delta information!

Lambda- Northwestern University: members were granted alum status in 1982, and the chapter was reorganized in 1985

Gamma Theta- University of Oklahoma: relinquished charter in 1985

Sigma Kappa- The Ohio State University: reorganized 1985, installation Feb 8, 1986, there was no dormant time for the chapter, they went straight to reorganization

Delta Epsilon- University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley: relinquished charter 1986

Alpha Pi- College of William & Mary: reorganized 1986, initiation 1987, no dormant time

Epsilon Xi- Houston Baptist University: declared dormant 1986

Rho- Wyoming: relinquished charter, members placed on alum status, effective October 31, 1986

Epsilon Eta- Illinois State University: relinquished charter, declared dormant February 6, 1987

Alpha Nu- Wittenberg University: declared dormant March 26, 1987. I'm confused about this because I don't know if they recolonized from ground up or when it occurred

Epsilon Kappa- California Polytechnic State University: requested reorganization and went alum at the end of the fall 1987 semester

Alpha Sigma- University of New Hampshire: reorganized in 1988

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by KDKells

More Kappa Delta information!

Sigma Kappa- The Ohio State University: reorganized 1985, installation Feb 8, 1986, there was no dormant time for the chapter, they went straight to reorganization

Remember this well. They were down to about 20-25 members whe I was in school. The chapter has done very well ever since.

[lyrica9]

Correcting numbers for Southwestern University:
Quota 16, new total 65 (they're reconfiguring every semester)
ADPi - 16
AXiD - 16 +6QAs
DDD - 16
ZTA - 16