The National Panhellenic Conference is an organization established to foster interfraternity relationships, to assist collegiate chapters of NPC member groups and to cooperate with colleges and universities in maintaining the highest scholastic and social standards.

National Panhellenic Conference Vision Statement Adopted at the Biennial Session, 10/05

The National Panhellenic Conference will be the premier advocacy and support organization for its members, member groups, college and alumnae panhellenics and a proponent of women’s fraternity membership.

National Panhellenic Conference Mission Statement Adopted at the Biennial Session, 10/05

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.

Zeta Tau Alpha's History with NPC

In 1905, ZTA President Bruce Houston Davice attempted to secure ZTA's admittance into the Intersorority Conference (now NPC). At this time, the Conference had entrance requirements that Zeta Tau Alpha could not meet: All chapters of a sorority in the Intersorority Conference had to be on campuses of an A rating (i.e. those offering a four-year degree program). This was heartbreaking news to all Zetas.

Although a difficult decision, the ZTA 1906 Convention went through the necessary formalities of charter revocation of the chapters that did not meet the requirements of the Intersorority Convention. Thus, our birthplace, Alpha Chapter, became dormant for 43 years. (It was later re-opened when Longwood University became an accredited four-year institution.)