what is panhellenic?

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.

Description of PHC
The Panhellenic Association at the University of Washington is made up of 16 of the 26 sororities who are members of the National Panhellenic Conference, which began in 1902. Since then, the Panhellenic Association has been nurturing community, leadership, academics, sisterhood and service throughout our campus Greek Community.

The Panhellenic Executive Board is the governing council of the sixteen women's sororities at the University of Washington and is made up of ten women who represent these organizations, all working together to further develop and enrich our Greek community. The executive council is responsible for planning all Greek philanthropic events, hosting roundtable discussions and speakers on important campus issues, educating members about policies and procedures, and overseeing recruitment.


National Panhellenic Council
The National Panhellenic Conference exists to promote the values of and to serve as an advocate for its member groups in collaboration with those members, campuses and communities.
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.

Officer Descriptions

Duties of the President:

The Panhellenic President shall have the overall responsibility for the operation of the Panhellenic Executive Board and preside over all regular and special meetings of the Panhellenic Association at the University of Washington. The president shall also chair revision committees of the Constitution and Bylaws annually, coordinate retreats for officers, and serve as an ASUW Senate Representative.

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Duties of the Vice President of Greek Relations:

The Vice President of Greek Relations coordinates all-Greek community philanthropic and community service events, Co-Chairs Greek Week committee along with IFC Counterpart and serves as a liaison to the multicultural fraternal organizations including the National Pan-hellenic and United Greek Council. Duties also include working in conjunction with ASUW and IFC to plan campus Homecoming activities

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Duties of the Vice President of Recruitment:

The Vice President of Recruitment maintains procedures of recruitment according to the National Panhellenic Conference rules and regulations, updates and distributes the Formal Recruitment rules and Code of Ethics, trains and oversees VP Recruitment Development and oversees the registration process for potential new members.

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Duties of the Vice President Recruitment Development

The Vice President of Recruitment Development oversees the Continuous Open Bidding or Informal Recruitment process, coordinates Greek Weekend and production of Greek Weekend Brochures, assists in the training and preparation of Junior Panhellenic and produces the Recruitment manual for potential new members during Fall Formal Recruitment. The Vice President of Recruitment Development also works in close conjunction with the VP Recruitment.

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Duties of the Vice President of Standards/Scholarship

The Vice President of Standards/Scholarship trains and chairs the standards/scholarship committee, oversees the disciplinary process according to NPC Judicial procedure, educates community about policies and procedures regarding alcohol and hazing, conduct roundtables with scholarship chairs, and produces the Quarterly Panhellenic Association grade ranking and distribute to the chapter Presidents.

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Duties of the Vice President of Member Development

The Vice President of Member Development coordinates quarterly speakers for educational purposes, oversees New Member Educators, coordinates the annual Recognition Banquet, coordinates the All-Greek Leadership Retreat, maintains New Member Resource Book, and plans programming opportunities throughout the year for each class, new member through senior.

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Duties of the Vice President of Public Relations

The Vice President of Public Relations assists in the production of all media related items for Panhellenic, including recruitment brochures, flyers, advertisements, press releases, etc., and manages all needed changes/updates for the Panhellenic website. Also oversees production on the Greek Voice with IFC counterpart, work in conjunction with the Director of Marketing, maintain a master calendar of all sorority philanthropies, founders days, and large events, and serve as the liaison for the Daily.

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Duties of the Vice President of Administration

The Vice President of Administration records and distributes minutes of all meetings of the Panhellenic Executive Board and the General Council, is responsible for the official correspondence of the Panhellenic Association, conducts supervision of all finances of the Panhellenic Association including bills, expense reports, etc., collects Quarterly Reports, distributes and collects house bills from all sororities, assists in the preparation of payroll and taxes, and prepares the budget annually in conjunction with the Panhellenic Advisor.

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Duties of the Director of Recruitment Counselors:

The Director of Recruitment Counselors chairs the committee that selects recruitment counselors, facilitates training sessions for recruitment counselors during winter and spring quarters, supervises the recruitment counselors during Formal Recruitment, coordinates the training of Junior Panhellenic and works with the Director of Marketing on high school visitations and College Fairs.

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