Panhellenic requirements for an award:
- The College Panhellenic pays NPC annual dues by Oct. 1.
- The College Panhellenic submits its annual report by April 15.
- The College Panhellenic provides a current copy of its bylaws to the NPC area adviser or the NPC office to post on the Panhellenic’s dashboard on the NPC website.
- The College Panhellenic works with the NPC area adviser to review total and adjust it within 72 hours of bid distribution at the conclusion of primary recruitment.
Ball State’s sorority council again joined the ranks of the 32 councils recognized nationally this year.
The National Panhellenic Conference released its annual winners of excellence and achievement awards on Aug. 18. The awards are handed out to member Panhellenic councils throughout the U.S.
Panhellenic Councils are the governing bodies for all sororities that are members of NPC on a university campus.
There were 11 excellence awards. Ball State’s Panhellenic received one of the 21 achievement awards. Excellence awards were given to those that met all seven criteria, and achievement awards were given to those meeting five or six criteria. NPC did not release what areas Ball State had not met or how it placed compared to other winning councils.
The seven areas in which the sorority councils were evaluated were recruitment, Panhellenic structure, communication with NPC area adviser, judicial procedures, Panhellenic programming, academics and Panhellenic community impact and relations.
This is the third year in a row Ball State’s Panhellenic Council was recognized for meeting a majority of criteria. About 75 of the 672 Panhellenic councils across the U.S. applied.
Not every council has to apply for the award; it is up to their discretion to apply, Julie Johnson, NPC's college Panhellenic Committee Chairman, said.
“We are really excited because all Panhellenics are eligible, and to know we are doing a good job from headquarters is a great thing,” said Danica Craig, president of the Ball State Panhellenic Council. “The application process is pretty extensive, and it was just a satisfying feeling to have done it because of how much time it took."
Only a small fraction of member councils were ineligible because they did not meet the core competencies, which means they had not met certain expectations and deadlines set by the NPC, Johnson said.
“I’d like to think that all of our member groups meet the core competencies, but of course there are outliers here and there,” Johnson said. “I’d say about 95 percent meet [core competencies].”
NPC has existed since 1902 and is the umbrella group for 26 national and international sororities.
There are about 3,180 chapters with 353,345 undergraduate members at the 672 campuses with an affiliated council. Ball State has 10 chapters of the 26 member sororities of the NPC.
“As a council, we pride ourselves to do things in the community to show what Panhellenic women are capable of,” Craig said.
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