| Sorority recruitment for the Panhellenic community on | | | | woman can "rush" a certain chapter, or a sorority |
| your campus may be called "Recruitment" or "Rush." | | | | sister can "rush" a potential member. This does not |
| The word "rush" was coined in the 1920s when | | | | mean that one person hurries another along. It means |
| students who were upperclass members of | | | | the sorority sister and prospective member are in |
| fraternities and sororities would rush the train | | | | the process of determining if they are a good match. |
| platforms where new students arrived at college. In | | | | If you are planning to participate in sorority |
| the 1990s, Panhellenic groups began changing the | | | | recruitment on your campus, you are in good |
| terminology for this process to more closely | | | | company. No matter the size of the Greek |
| acknowledge the process at hand: membership | | | | community on your campus, there are thousands of |
| recruitment. | | | | women in the same position as you right now. About |
| Your campus may call it either recruitment or rush, | | | | 80,000 women join National Panhellenic Conference |
| and you'll probably hear both terms used | | | | (NPC) sororities across North America each year. |
| interchangeably. It might be easiest if you consider | | | | There are 2,937 collegiate sorority chapters on 650 |
| "recruitment" to be the formal name and "rush" to be | | | | campuses across the US and Canada. |
| the informal name. | | | | Despite an economic recession, the number of |
| Rush is used both as a noun and a verb. In the noun | | | | women joining sororities has not decreased. College |
| form, a woman can go through the sorority | | | | and university campuses across North America are |
| recruitment process called "rush." As a verb, "rush" | | | | continuing to see a rising interest in sorority |
| means to participate in sorority recruitment. A | | | | communities. |