The National Panhellenic Conference

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

Panhellenic Executive Board Members

The Panhellenic Executive Board is the governing body that links the seven chapters to the SMU Greek community. The seven members work year round with chapter leaders and the university to foster the best experience for every Panhellenic woman. The Panhellenic Executive Board also works tirelessly during recruitment week to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Don’t forget, all of the Panhellenic Executive women are always available to answer any of your questions!

The Panhellenic Creed

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 furthering 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.

As Panhellenic, We Believe

Fraternity is a social experience based on the fundamental right for a free people to form voluntary associations. It is one of the enrichments of college life. The young woman who wants a 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 values 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.

Fraternities continue because:
- Parents appreciate fraternity values and standards and cooperate to make membership possible
- College administrators, recognizing the values of fraternities, continue to welcome them on their campuses and invite them to establish new chapters.