NOTE: The sororities of NPHC and MCC do NOT hold formal/published recruitment events. To obtain information on the historically African-American sororities and the MCC sorority and their intake processes, please contact Tyler Young through the information located on the Contact Us page.

Recruitment Registration

The University of North Florida Panhellenic Executive Council and Recruitment Counselors will be in attendance at all summer freshman/transfer student orientations to answer any questions pertaining to Recruitment 2007. Services will be available on-site for filling out applications electronically. The application fee is $45.00. Applications are due by the start of Recruitment on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at Orientation.

Formal Recruitment

Formal recruitment is the main process the National Panhellenic Conference sororities at the University of North Florida use to recruit new members. Formal recruitment is conducted during the first week of the fall semester, beginning on Wednesday, August 29 2007, and concluding with Bid Day on Sunday, September 2, 2007.

The week consists of three rounds of events that allow potential members the opportunity to learn about each sorority at UNF as well as what it means to join a sorority. During the recruitment events women will have the time to ask questions about sorority activities, financial obligations, new member programs, scholarship, community service, and sorority life in general.

It is important to recognize that formal recruitment is a selection process. All women will visit every sorority during the first round, but the remaining rounds are by invitation only. The Panhellenic Vice President and Recruitment Counselors (Pi Chi) will explain the process in detail throughout the week. Each potential member will be assigned Recruitment Counselors who will be available during the entire process to answer questions.

Participation in formal recruitment DOES NOT guarantee an invitation to join a sorority, nor does it obligate a woman to join.

Recruitment Guidelines

The University of North Florida Panhellenic Association Membership Recruitment Guidelines is intended to help guide fraternity women and potential members through the membership selection process and Formal Recruitment Week. The guidelines incorporate many of the procedures recommended and/or required by the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC). The purpose of Formal Recruitment is two-fold: (1) to ensure that member organizations have equitable opportunities for membership recruitment within the Panhellenic system; and (2) to provide potential members every opportunity to become acquainted with as many sororities as possible in order that they may make informed decisions concerning membership.

Summer Contact

1. A chapter member, alumna member or anyone acting on a sorority's behalf shall not initiate contact in any manner with a potential member (i.e., a woman participating in, or going to participate in, Formal Recruitment week) during the summer months or anytime outside a scheduled Formal Recruitment event. Likewise, potential members may not be sent flowers, gifts, correspondence, mementos, etc. According to the NPC Manual of Information, "NPC believes that normal, social contacts should not be disrupted in the case of long-standing friendships by prohibiting all contact between sorority women and potential [members]. (Normal contact implies relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers.) However, each sorority is charged with the responsibility of seeing that unfair advantage is not taken of such contacts."
   
   
2. No woman is eligible to join a sorority during the summer months.
   
   
3. A chapter member, alumna member or anyone acting on a sorority's behalf shall not imply to a potential member nor her family that she has an invitation to a party, ask her to pledge, nor imply that she will receive a bid.
   
   
4. A chapter member, alumna member or anyone acting on the sorority's behalf who is unknown to the potential member shall not contact a potential member nor her family for the purpose of soliciting photographs or other information.

Legacies

1. A legacy is defined as a granddaughter, daughter or sister of an initiated sorority member unless a national organization recognizes additional relations.
   
   
2. A legacy may not be given any gifts by the sorority.

Formal Recruitment

1. Formal Fall Recruitment consists of five stages: Orientation (for all potential members); Ice Water Party (each potential member will visit with each sorority), Philanthropy Night, Preference Night, and Bid Day. (Philanthropy Night, Preference Night, and Bid Day will be attended by invitation only.)
   
   
2. A woman must be an enrolled undergraduate student at the University of North Florida to be eligible to participate in Formal or Informal Recruitment activities. A woman shall not be, or ever have been an initiated member of a National Panhellenic Conference group. A woman is ineligible for membership recruitment if she has been a new member of an NPC sorority/women’s fraternity on this campus within one calendar year.
   
   
3. Potential members must register with the University of North Florida Panhellenic Association and pay the registration to participate in Formal Recruitment.
   
   
4. Chapters may not allow potential members to leave the party with any item (s) received during the party (e.g., gifts, letters, napkins, cups, etc.).
   
   
5. Alcohol is prohibited during recruitment and new member activities.
   
   
6. Parents, guardians or relatives of a potential member may not attend any recruitment party during Formal Recruitment unless the person is an official chapter Advisor.
   
   
7. Males may not participate in any recruitment event.
   
   
8. Potential members participating in Formal Recruitment must wear the nametag provided by Panhellenic during all Formal Recruitment week activities.
   
   
9. Potential members must attend all Formal Recruitment events at the designated time. A potential member must receive prior approval from the Panhellenic Vice President or the Panhellenic Advisor to miss any event during the week.
   
   
10. A woman shall complete a form where they rank each sorority in order of preference immediately following the last preference event she attends. Once it has been signed and submitted, no changes may be made.
    
    
11. Failure to follow any of these rules could result in dismissal from the Formal Recruitment process.
    

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