COR promotion

[adpiucf]

Who has good ideas for promoting COR events? Any success stories?

[honeychile]

Paging GreekLetterGirl and sweetieadpi!!!!!!!

Recruitment Queens!!!

[texas*princess]

We put fliers in all the female dorms and in the female sections of the co-ed dorms! It worked really well as we got a bunch of great women to our events

[GreekLetterGirl]

First- Honeychile- that was my first page thank you.

Ok now on to business..
What worked with my chapter was this, we started small, we did an ice cream social and basically did a 1:1 ratio, that way it wasn't overwhelming to the PNM nor the Delta sister. We actually did this in Fall of 01 and we had a chapter of roughly 15 actives on the books by the end of that semster we had a chapter of about 30!!!! We worked hard but it has paid off, and now I am proud to say that my chapter is at ceiling. COR really seemed to be my chapters strong suite. The only advice I can give is this

1- be your self, this is not the time to be formal, some PNM are really turned off by formal rush, and this is the time to get those great women who just happen to be a bit put off by the formal hoopla. Some of my chapters best sisters came from COR.

2- NETWORK YOUR NEW MEMBERS esp the freshmen and sophomores. These NM have a whole other pool of people that you can possibly get to join. Freshmen esp because they are so unestablished in their friendships. I know personally I tried to meet ANY AND EVERYONE my first year on campus just so I would always be able to see a friendly face on campus.

3- Keep It Simple this sort or relates to number 1. COR is not the time to bust out the room full of flowers or candle ceramony. Some of the best sisters we have gotten where through a very chill dinner meeting with 2-3 sisters who the PNM may have a common link to.

and finally
ALWAYS REMEBER THAT COR IS A 24/7 THING no matter where you and your sisters go and what you doing are showing what ADPi about and what it can offer women. And that will spark more interest than you will ever immage.

I personally don't think it matters on party themes but some of the ones we've done is
night at the point where we take NM to Mt Washington which is esp. neat for out of towners
ice cream social
Must See TV night
Eat at Eddies.

[texas*princess]

Violets to GreekLetterGirl for sharing all her info!!!

[HBADPi]

One thing we always did with COR events is hand deliver the invitations. We would have our PR committee make up personalized invitiations for all the PNMs and then we would delegate a sister who knew the PNM to deliver the invitation to her in her room. That way if the PNM had any questions she could just ask the sister and not be nervous about calling the recruitment chair which can be daunting to some girls. Plus it showed the girls that we were interested in having them there and didnt just go to the post office and mail out a mass number of generic invitations. Invite the girl to bring her other friends if she feels intimidated by going alone if she doesnt know anyone else, that makes it a win-win situation for everyone.

The more one on one COR events that we had always seemed to work best. We pretty much had a BBQ event and a smores making event every fall. We had the best turn out for those because there was food and who doesnt like chocolate? But I agree with GreekLetterGirl the theme doesnt matter much, it just gives you a conversation topic to fall back on.

[adpiucf]

These are all great ideas! The idea of COR is new to me-- my campus didn't have COR (Panhellenic keeps bringing on new sororities b/c the university has been growing like crazy!) and I love hearing about all the creative things our chapters do. I think COR sounds like it's a lot more fun and low-key than formal recruitment!!!

I had another idea, though about something that would act as a COR, TME, and Service/PR, that I wanted to share:

To engage various campus groups in a TME that is about relevant issues to college women (health and nutrition, time management, study skills, etc) and target each group each month-- like get the RA's to collect their freshmen in the dorms for a special residence hall audience TME put on by ADPi. ADPi sisters can attend, facilitate, and you can plug ADPi by wearing letters and annoucing that we're growing and looking for excited new members. Invite them all to XYZ event on DATE/TIME if you're interested, and you can collect the names and contact info of the women who've attended. There can be a period of mixing and mingling before the event begins, and after, so you can meet PNM's and chat them up, and then bring a discussion back to the chapter that you'd like to more seriously persue those women.

Not only is it service to the campus community, it also promotes ADPi, and serves as a way to create interested in joining. What do you think of that idea? It would take a joint effort on the part of the MEVP and RVP, and the Leadership Chair could help coordinate setting up the events. Different sisters can help facilitate the workshops, too.

[adpiucf]

What kinds of events have worked best for you? What has totally bombed?

Honey you need to add me to the list of Rush Queens, they used to call me the rush nazi. Anyway, one cool idea i jacked from another thread was put fliers on cars at the freshman women's dorms. Even if they're in something else, maybe they have a friend who's not. We did a game night at this place that had laser tag and other cool stuff like that, and Friends and Floats was fun (watch friends, eat ice cream!). I could go on for hours about COR so if you have a specific question, ask me....I could be general for months.

[PiLove]

Dear Sisters,
Help!! No matter how much COR we do, (don't even get me started on formal recruitment) we can't get a decent sized group of girls. We aren't able to participate in even half of the philanthrophy event on campus due to this We have around 20 sisters and the other sororities have 40-70 girls. It's just hard to compete. If you have some advice for me PM me.
~~~~~~~~Lindsey

[adpiucf]

Lindsey,

I PM'd you and I bumped a couple of threads in Greek Life that you might be interested in.

I think retention can be achieved through two basic tenets:

1) Positive Chapter Attitude
2) Chapter Communication

Why don't we start a new thread to discuss how to achieve good retention and hear from some sisters and friends on things that worked for them?