of the eight chapters active at brenau, two are nphc (national pan-hellenic council) and six are npc (national panhellenic conference) sororities. for the six npc chapters “formal recruitment” follows panhellenic's recruitment guidelines and occurs annually at the beginning of the academic year, while the nphc or historically african american greek organizations hold their recruitment separate from the formal process. these sororities follow nphc recruitment guidelines, with membership intake for alpha kappa alpha and delta sigma theta at the discretion of the individual organization.