20 Process for Expansion (1) Each governing council shall establish a committee to deal with all matters pertaining to expansion processes within their particular council. A council-specific committee will convene to discuss expansion for at least one of the following reasons: a. The need for a new social fraternity or sorority is recognized by the community or the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office. b. An inter/national organization contacts the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office wanting to start a fraternity or sorority. (2) This committee will then provide recommendations to the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office regarding the need for expansion within their respective council. (3) If the need for expansion is expressed and then affirmed by the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office, an expansion submission deadline will be established by the appropriate Council. (4) After the expansion submission deadline, the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office will review all packets submitted and will then forward expansion packets to the appropriate council expansion committee for review. (5) Each council-specific expansion committee will review packets and move forward with one of the following options (based on council specific governance policies): a. Decide a predetermined number of interested inter/national fraternities or sororities to make presentations on-campus, that would then lead to a decision on inter/national fraternities or sororities to colonize at Nova Southeastern University, under the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office. b. Decide a predetermined number of interested inter/national fraternities or sororities to colonize at Nova Southeastern University, under the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office, not to exceed one (1) organization, per council, per academic year. c. Decide that no interested inter/national fraternities or sororities meet the criteria to move forward with the process. (6) Each council-specific expansion committee will then recommend a course of action to their undergraduate governing Council for an official vote, as per the council’s constitution and bylaws. (7) Once an official vote is reached, the undergraduate governing Council must provide their decision in writing to the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office, who will then affirm or overrule the decision and communicate it to all applicants inter/national organizations. Process for Petitioning Creating an interest group is a unique course in starting social fraternities and sororities. In most instances of expansion in a fraternity and sorority community, representatives from the inter/national organizations come to campus and seek out students to become members of their organization. When starting an “interest group”, the students take the initiative to find an inter/national organization that they would like to join and then they must meet the following standards toward becoming an active Greek organization within the NSU fraternity and sorority community.
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