At WKU the community college is considered WKU- they can live on campus and all, therefore they can rush at the fraternities and sororities on campus.
So yes, it can happen, if the community college is a part of the university.

I don't understand this at all. I always thought that you have to attend the school the chapter is in to join. I see that there are some exceptions made, but I still don't get it.

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um, sorry? it's just an abbreviation. i used it in the subject heading to keep it SHORT. i obviously wasn't trying to offend anyone, so there is no point in getting irate. a nice, polite "please do not use that term" would have sufficed. sometimes all of this greek PC-ness in GC land can be too much to remember when i'm just typing up a quick post!

Once upon a time, SIUE used to allow chapters to have members that attended the local community colleges (provided it was allowed by their national hq), until we had a risk management "incident" committed by one of these community college members. The university couldn't discipline him, the community college refused to since the fraternity wasn't theirs, and it turned into a rather nasty situation (the very first year I started working here too!) Since then, it is a strict requirement that membership is limited to enrolled SIUE students.

at WKU since the community college is WKU then it is different. You can take classes at both, and pay one tuition. When you register for classes there you choose from the class roster, which is for both campuses and the campus in Glasgow... so it isn't really a seperate school, just another part of the school.

By and large you need to be a dually registered student at a school to join the chapters at that school.

But there may be exceptions with certain organizations.

I know my Fraternity once had the concept of Extension Membership. This allowed a chapter to induct no more then 5 students from local schools who didn't have chapters into their chapter. The intent was to help 'jump start' chapters. Those Brothers could then start chapters at their school and do so as Brothers, rather then non-Brothers. But we removed that membership class recently (done by those who never used it and didn't see its usefulness).

in the case of the guy i know, he is not dually enrolled and the two schools (a city community college and the university) have nothing to do with one another. i guess what i gather from the perspectives i've seen here is that is IS allowed at some schools or by some chapters - but there seems to be no general IFC rule about it. overall, it must be up to the national office of each GLO...? ah well, whatever, the more the merrier! :D