The Office of Student Life is proud to offer Fraternity and Sorority Recruitment in the Fall of 2009 in conjunction with the Inter-fraternity and Panhellenic Councils. Recruitment for Fraternities and Sororities is simply put a time for students to get to know the values, philanthropies, community service opportunities, leadership programming, and various other aspects of each organization on campus in order to make an informed choice about where they feel they would fit on campus. The process is mutually selective, meaning the fraternity and the new member have to be in agreement that a new member should be admitted for membership.
The processes differ between Fraternities and Sororities. The Fraternity Recruitment Week for Fall 2009 begins on September 14, 2009 with a Recruitment Kick-Off event in the Brown Campus Center at 7:30pm. Beginning on September 14, 2009 through September 17, 2009, Fraternities will have open recruitment events each night. Any student interested in Fraternity Life is encouraged to visit each organization and learn more about their values and tenants. On September 18, 2009, Each fraternity will have a closed recruitment event in which men are invited to attend and learn more about an organization in a more low key setting, usually a dinner. On September 19, 2009, Fraternities will leave
bids for prospective members in the Office of Student Life which may be picked up on the 2nd Floor of Peele Hall from 11:00am until 2:00pm. If a prospective member is extended a bid into membership, he should meet the Inter-fraternity Council on September 19, 2009 at 9:00pm in Washington Franklin Hall in order to accept their bid and participate in the signing of the IFC Bid Acceptance Ledger along with fraternity men who have come before you. At this point, new member education may start and should conclude no later than November 21, 2009. Fraternities are allowed to and encouraged to extend bids throughout the fall semester to qualified upper classmen from the conclusion of bid day to the end of January term.
Sorority Recruitment for the Fall of 2009 is a Continuous Open Recruitment (COR) Process. Beginning on September 14, 2009 at Midnight, NPC Sororities may extend bids into membership to any eligible upper class woman. Sororities are encouraged to extend bids to qualified women until the last day of fall term and continuing during the j-term until the last day of j-term or until the chapter membership reaches Total or fifty (50) women. We encourage all first-year women who are interested in recruitment to truly focus on your grades as Formal Recruitment occurs in February, and we anticipate many chapter reaching total during Formal Recruitment and limiting recruitment in future fall semesters or possibly eliminating it all together!
Basic qualifications for membership in an IFC Fraternity include a minimum 2.25 GPA though many chapter require signifcantly higher GPAs to join. In order to be eligible to join an NPC Sorority you must have met that chapter's prerequisite GPA which are as follows Alpha Gamma Delta (2.3), Kappa Alpha Theta (2.3), Phi Mu (2.4), and Delta Zeta (2.5). In the case of both fraternities and sororities you must have a minimum of 12 credit hours accepted by Randolph-Macon with a GPA in order to go through recruitment. The GPA requirement is not flexible. We are societies of scholars and expect scholastic performance as a prerequisite for membership!
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