College Panhellenic Council (CPH)

The object of the College Panhellenic Council is to develop and maintain women’s sorority life and interfraternity relations at a high level of accomplishment and in so doing to:

Consider the goals and ideals of member organizations as applicable to campus and personal life
Promote superior scholarship and intellectual development.
Cooperate with member women’s sororities and the university/college administration to maintain high social and moral standards.
Act in accordance with National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) Unanimous Agreements, policies and best practices.
Act in accordance with such rules established by the Panhellenic Council as to not violate the sovereignty, rights and privileges of member sororities.

Financial Expectations

Each chapter has a different cost and cost vary on membership status. You can find information on chapter membership costs here: Financial Transparency. In addition to membership fees, each chapter has a residency requirement: typically, members are expected to live on the chapter floor their Sophomore year.

Academic Expectations

As required by the National Panhellenic Conference, there is no GPA requirement to participate in primary recruitment at the University of North Alabama. However, the four sororities have individual requirements to extend a membership invitation:
Alpha Delta Pi: 3.0 minimum GPA
Alpha Gamma Delta: 3.0 minimum GPA
Phi Mu: 2.8 minimum GPA
Zeta Tau Alpha: 3.0 minimum GPA

Women who have below a 3.00 GPA are advised that they are at a greater risk to be released from the primary recruitment process due to their academics. With the amount of women who participate in the formal recruitment process, GPA tends to be a characteristic all groups strongly consider, especially after the first round of formal recruitment. Being released from formal recruitment or receiving a membership invitation through the formal recruitment process is due to a wide variety of factors that are ultimately up to the sororities. GPA is only one of those factors, but there is much weight placed on GPA.

To help students understand how their GPA may affect their formal recruitment experience, College Panhellenic created Grade Zones to show how academics may factor in formal recruitment.

GPA Zones:
Green Zone = Your options are not likely limited based on your GPA. (3.0 +)
Yellow Zone = Your options are more likely to be limited by your GPA. (2.8 – 2.99)
Red Zone = Your options are very likely to be limited based on GPA. (2.79 and below)

Community Service Expectations

Community service and philanthropy are important to the Panhellenic Community. Each organization has expectations for members to meet a minimum number of service hours each semester:
Alpha Delta Pi: All Members - 10 outside hours/semester, 4 inside hours/semester
Alpha Gamma Delta: Active Members - 7 hours/semester
Phi Mu: New Members - 5 hours/semester, Active Members - 10 hours/semester
Zeta Tau Alpha: New Members - 5 hours/semester, Active Members - 10 hours/semester

We, as Undergraduate Members of women's fraternities, stand for good scholarship, for guarding of good health, for maintenance of fine standards, and for serving, to the best of our ability, our college community. Cooperation for suthering fraternity life, in harmony with its best possibilities, is the ideal that shall guide our fraternity activities.

We, as Fraternity Women, stand for service through the development of character inspired by the close contact and deep friendship of individual fraternity and Panhellenic life. The opportunity for wide and wise human service, through mutual respect and helpfulness, is the tenet by which we strive to live.

panhellenic@una.edu
256.765.4248