The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) was established in 1902 to promote values and ethics in women's sororities and to encourage their members to be active and responsible leaders in their respective communities. The NPC is composed of 26 women’s-only inter/national member organizations, and is the world's largest umbrella organization, created to advocate for the sorority experience. We pride ourselves on being values-based organizations, and assist all 13 Panhellenic sorority chapters at the University of Arizona live their missions.
National Panhellenic Conference’s Mission Statement
To advance the twenty-six women's organizations of the National Panhellenic Conference and their commitment to personal growth by underwriting initiatives that launch and sustain women leaders.
Our Vision
Every woman will be a better citizen because of her life-long sorority experience.
Our Values
The mission, vision and all efforts of the NPC Foundation are based upon four primary values:
- The Panhellenic spirit that bonds 26 member groups totaling more than 3.7 million women.
- Life-long commitment to intellectual, personal, and social growth.
- The power of the individual and the empowerment of women.
- The betterment of campus culture and society in general.
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."
- Adopted by the National Panhellenic Conference
Nondiscrimination Policy
NPC sororities do not discriminate in membership selection practices on any basis prohibited by law, except for the exemption on the basis of sex granted under Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972 for social fraternities/sororities.