Mission Statement -This We Believe

A Message from the

National Panhellenic Conference

National Panhellenic Conference, founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 inter/national women's fraternities and sororities. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae. Members are represented on over 620 college and university campuses in the United States and Canada and in over 4,600 alumnae associations, making up over 3.6 million sorority women in the world.

This We Believe

Fraternity: Fraternity is a social experience based on the fundamental right of a free people to form voluntary associations. It is one of the enrichments of college life.

Mutual Choice: The young woman who wants fraternity experience will find it possible to belong on most campuses today. Fraternity membership is a social experience arrived at by mutual choice and selection. Fraternity membership is by invitation.

Fraternities Exist Because They:

• Provide a good democratic social experience.
• Give value beyond college years.
• Create, through their ideals, an ever-widening circle of service beyond the membership.
• Develop the individual's potential through leadership opportunities and group effort.
• Fill the need of belonging.

Fraternities Continue Because: Young women feel a continuing need to belong. Parents appreciate fraternity values and standards and cooperate to make membership possible. College administrations, recognizing the values of fraternities, continue to welcome them on their campuses and to invite them to establish new chapters.

Copyright © 2001 National Panhellenic Conference

The National Panhellenic Conference supports its women's fraternities by promoting values, education,

leadership, friendships, cooperation and citizenship.

NPC Mission Statement, Adopted at the Interim Session, 10/00.

Did You Know?

While former members of the Greek system comprise just 3% of the U.S. population,
since 1825, with the founding of the first Greek letter organization:

... all but 3 Presidents,
... all but 2 Vice Presidents,
... 76% of the U.S. Congress and Senate,
... 63% of U.S. presidents' cabinet members since 1900,
... 40 out of 47 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and both women, since 1910,
... 85% of Fortune 500 executives,
... 70% of Who's Who,
... 43% of the country's top 50 company leaders
... have all been Greek?
... were all Greek?