ABOUT US
WHAT IS PANHEL?
The National Panhellenic Conference, founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for twenty-six international women’s fraternities and sororities. Each member group is autonomous as a Greek-letter society of collegiate members and alumnae members. Members are represented in over 620 university campuses in the United States and Canada. There are over 5,300 alumnae associations making up over 2.5 million sorority women in the world. Our local chapter of the Panhellenic Council serves as a governing body over the 9 NPC sororities we have at Villanova.
Sororities exist because they:
Provide a democratic social experience
Create a home away from home during the college years
Provide leadership opportunities
Give value beyond the college years
Provide ample networking opportunities
Create, through their ideals, an ever-widening circle of service beyond the membership
Develop the individual’s potential through leadership opportunities and group effort
Allow one to get involved in their community
Develop friendships that will last long past the college years
PANHELLENIC COUNCIL
The Panhellenic Council is comprised of an executive board and a representative from each Panhellenic sorority at Villanova.
The Panhellenic Executive Board is selected in December and serves a year term. The Panhellenic Council is the governing body of all Panhellenic chapters at Villanova. The council is responsible for:
Sponsoring programs to meet the needs of the sorority community.
Leadership development programming for the organizations' members.
Planning the formal Panhellenic recruitment process in the Spring.
Facilitating communication throughout the sorority system.
Acting as a liaison between the organizations and the university.
HISTORY OF VILLANOVA SORORITY LIFE
In 1902, under the guidance of Father Matthew Cochran, a small group of students from St. Mary’s Hall (later Corr Hall) founded the first fraternity at Villanova with the purpose of studying the classics and promoting social interactions.
More than a century later, fraternities and sororities thrive at Villanova, with missions that seek to evoke leadership qualities in members through engagement in academic, service, philanthropic, and social initiatives.
The Fraternity and Sorority community at Villanova University has grown tremendously over the last century. Today, it consists of over 2,000 students in nine Interfraternity Council fraternities, eight Panhellenic Council sororities and nine Multicultural Greek Council organizations, all with inter/national affiliations.
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.