Shortly before its merger with the NPC, the AES was part of a larger multi-panhellenic association, the Council of Affiliated Panhellenics. That year, the Congress also began plans for its own centralized Panhellenic headquarters to coordinate and streamline interactions with the separate sororities. īy 1922, the Conference (as of then still named the National Panhellenic Congress) had a structure of an executive committee consisting of a chairman, secretary, and treasurer a publicity board and a delegate board with at least one representative from each of its 18 senior members. These groups included the first Black Greek letter organizations. Throughout its early years, the NPC organizations were often racially and religiously segregated and rarely admitted Jewish, Catholic, or minority ethnic members, which led to the formation of group-specific sororities which attempted to provide the same social and academic outlets to groups who were otherwise excluded from membership. No new members were admitted for the next few decades. Many of the current members joined through the next decade, with Alpha Xi Delta in 1904, Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa in 1905, Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Gamma Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha in 1909, Delta Zeta in 1910, Phi Mu in 1911, and Kappa Delta in 1912. Up to this time, no guidelines had been set, and women could be pledged to groups before enrolling in college and, indeed, even belong to more than one group. This meeting, and the next few, resulted in several mutual agreements, especially regarding pledging. The remaining seven groups met and the session resulted in the organization of the first interfraternity association and the first intergroup organization on college campuses. Alpha Chi Omega and Chi Omega were unable to attend and would join the following year. In 1902, Alpha Phi invited Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, and Chi Omega to a conference in Chicago on May 24 to set standards for collegiate sororities. These stories date all the way back to 1891 with the intention to meet again in 1893. However, no actual Panhellenic organization existed and no uniform practices were observed. One of its services is providing advisors for college and alumnae Panhellenic organizations.Įarly histories of women's fraternities contain accounts of "rushing and pledging agreements" or "compacts" among fraternities on various campuses, and many stories of cooperation and mutual assistance.
Other than basic agreements which its groups must unanimously vote to follow, NPC confines itself to recommendations and advice and acts as a court of final appeal in any College Panhellenic difficulty. The organization holds a philosophy that it is a conference, not a congress, as it enacts no legislation and only regulates its own meetings. Each year, NPC-affiliated collegians and alumnae donate more than $5 million to causes, provide $2.8 million in scholarships to women, and volunteer 500,000 hours in their communities. Founded in 1902, NPC is one of the oldest and largest women's membership organizations, representing more than 4 million women at over 650 college/university campuses and 4,600 local alumnae chapters in the U.S. The National Panhellenic Conference provides guidelines and resources for its members and serves as the national voice on contemporary issues of sorority life. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae. The National Panhellenic Conference ( NPC) is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national women's sororities throughout the United States and Canada.
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