What is the UAlbany Panhellenic Association?
When you join one of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities at UAlbany, you also become a member of the Panhellenic Association. The UAlbany Panhellenic Association is the umbrella organization for the NPC sororities chartered at UAlbany, and is responsible for organizing activities of mutual concern and interest to all the sororities on campus. At the University at Albany, there are 9 PanHellenic sororities, 7 of which are inter/national and 2 that are local. Like each student at UAlbany, each sorority is different in their own way. The best way to find out if joining Greek Life is for you, is to come to Rush in either the Fall or Spring semesters and meet all 9 sororities face to face. For more information about Rush, please see the Recruitment page.



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.



It's All Greek To Me!!
A Dictionary of commonly used words in Greek Life

ACTIVE MEMBER	An undergraduate sorority member who has been initiated by her chapter.
ALUMNA	A sorority member who is no longer a member of a collegiate chapter. [plural is Alumnae]
BID	An invitation to join a sorority or fraternity.
CHAPTER	A membership unit of a national or international sorority or fraternity.
FORMAL MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT	A designated membership recruitment period during which a series of organized events are held by each NPC sorority; membership recruitment is organized and implemented by the Panhellenic Association.
FRATERNITY	Greek letter sisterhood or brotherhood.
GREEKS	Sorority and fraternity members.
INITIATION	Ritualistic ceremony during which new members receive life long membership privileges.
INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL (IFC)	IFC is the men's counterpart to the College Panhellenic Association. It is membership is comprised of fraternities belonging to the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC).
LATINO GREEK COUNCIL (LGC)	The Latino Greek Council represents two Latino sororities and one fraternity on campus.
LEGACY	A woman whose mother, sister or in some cases grandmother is an alumna or active member of a sorority.
NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONFERENCE (NPC)	NPC is a Conference body, comprised of 26 national women's fraternities, each of which is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women, undergraduates and alumnae.
NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL, Inc. (NPHC)	The National Pan-Hellenic Council is the official coordinating agent of the nine constituent member Greek letter, historically African-American, fraternities and sororities.
NEW MEMBER	A woman who has accepted a sorority bid but is not yet an initiated member.
PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION	The College Panhellenic Association is a cooperative campus organization of collegiate members of NPC sororities.
POTENTIAL MEMBER	Any woman interested in becoming a sorority member who is eligible to join according to the Panhellenic Association's requirements.
PHILANTHROPY	Community service or fundraising effort to promote human welfare.
PLEDGE MOM	The sister who teaches new members everything about the sorority. This sister generally has the most contact with new members during their new member process. There is also generally an Assistant Pledge Mom as well.
QUOTA	The number of women that may join an NPC sorority during Formal Recruitment.
RECRUITMENT	An organized activity to meet potential members.
SISTER	A term used within a women's fraternity when referring to other members.
SORORITY	A Greek letter sisterhood.

Greek Alphabet