1 / 10

Greek Life at Baylor University

Greek Life at Baylor University. Orientation 2014. Greek Councils & Chapters. Interfraternity Council (IFC ) – national fraternities, many apart of the North American Interfraternity Conference(NIC) Multicultural Greek Council (MGC ) – culturally diverse fraternities and sororities

tala
Download Presentation

Greek Life at Baylor University

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Greek Life at Baylor University Orientation 2014

  2. Greek Councils & Chapters • Interfraternity Council (IFC ) – national fraternities, many apart of the North American Interfraternity Conference(NIC) • Multicultural Greek Council (MGC ) – culturally diverse fraternities and sororities • National Pan-Hellenic Council ( NPHC ) – historically African-American Greek organizations • Panhellenic Council ( PHC ) –National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities • Local/Independent Organizations – fraternal organizations and sororities not associated with a council

  3. Aspects of Greek Life • Service & Philanthropy • Campus Involvement • Leadership • Scholarship • Faith Development

  4. Benefits of Joining • Experiential Learning • Networking • Lifelong Friendships • Connection to Campus • Purpose

  5. Grade Requirements • A student must have completed 12 Baylor hours and obtain a 2.5 cumulative GPA. • Many organizations require all potential new members to have a higher GPA to join their individual chapter. • Transfer Students • A student is considered a transfer if they have attended a college during a fall or spring semester AFTER high school graduation. • Transfer grades do NOT apply to the Baylor GPA • Minimum of 24 transfer hours • Transfer GPA of a 3.0 • Grades are NOT rounded up in determining eligibility.

  6. How to Join… • National Pan-Hellenic Council & Multicultural Greek Council utilize a process called Intake for new members. It is organized by the individual chapters and the timing of this process is at the discretion of each group. • Panhellenic sororities and IFC/local and independent fraternities have a structured recruitment process. Each council coordinates the timing of their recruitment, registration is required in order to participate (both Panhellenic and Fraternity Recruitment). • Local/Independent sororities have individual recruitment events throughout each semester for interested women. It is up to each individual chapter regarding the timing of the events.

  7. Fall Events • Mosaic Mixer (8/27) • Traditions Rally (8/28) • Late Night (8/29) • MGC Recruitment Week (9/2 – 9/6) • MGC Showcase (9/3) • IFC Recruitment Tables (9/2 & 9/3) • Panhellenic Recruitment Orientation (9/4) • NPHC Week (9/9 – 9/11) • NPHC Greek 101 (9/9) • 0

  8. Contact us! Tam Dunn Tam_Dunn@baylor.edu Panhellenic Astrid Beltran Astrid_Beltran@baylor.edu MGC & NPHC Austin Hayes Austin_Hayes@baylor.edu IFC & Local/Independent Fraternities

  9. Follow us on……. Website: www.baylor.edu/greeklife Facebook: “Baylor Greek Life” Twitter: @BaylorGreeks YouTube: “BaylorGreek” Instagram: @Baylor_Greek_Life

  10. Key Points for Sororities • Registration • Recommendation letters/Intake paperwork • Legacies • Finances • GPA Requirements • Get to know people • What to wear

More Related