I am not sure why, but I couldn't get the link above to open. Trying again....

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Sounds like an advocacy group to support students' rights, which we know have been trampled on by universities on a regular basis... I'm looking at you, Harvard. I know nothing about them, though.

FIRE is a long-lived and extremely thorough advocacy group that has been fighting for free-speech in education as long as I can remember.

Thanks, DGTess!! Good to know.

Founded in 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founda...s_in_Education

UPDATE! I know it's been a bit since my last update. On Monday, Delta Phi Epsilon, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Alpha all communicated with their chapters that they would continue to recognize their chapters as active and work with them to continue operations independent of the University. The three chapters will work with NPC to create an independent local Panhellenic Council. From what I've heard, this is not going to be like the University of Las Vegas - Reno, where NPC actually hired someone to work with the organizations to form and advise the local Panhellenic Council.

Word from fraternity alums is that TKE national will be continuing recognition of their local chapter, and Alpha Sigma Phi will do so as well, although Alpha Sigma Phi relinquished their recognition at the beginning of last spring term due to their disagreement with the new university policies.

There is a lot of chatter amongst alums of groups because the national organizations have been officially backed by their nationals. Locals are feeling that they don't have any recourse as they don't have national backing. Because there is no local Panhellenic Council at this time, I'm thinking that fall recruitment will be COB only, as it should be, and there is no total, so all groups will be on their own to do their thing. We'll have to see how things work out for a spring formal recruitment.

I can speak for my chapter, Delta Phi Epsilon, in that we are incredibly grateful to our national organization for their support and continued recognition. They truly left the decision up to the local collegiate women to decide if they wanted to continue, and when they said the did want to keep going, our national was happy to continue to support them. It is about to be a very interesting fall in Bloomsburg!

I didn't read through the entire thread so I don't know if this has been addressed, but can they set up the PHC like Santa Clara University?

SC Recruitment Registration Fall 21' https://enroll.icsrecruiter.com/pan/...ent-disclaimer

SC Panhellenic IG https://www.instagram.com/scpanhellenic/?hl=en

SCU statement on greek life at the school (Scroll down) https://www.scu.edu/osl/students/


SC Panhellenic FB page https://www.facebook.com/scpanhellenic/

We will see
 

We are meeting with NPC on Friday, so we'll see what happens.

Good luck!

A local sorority, Phi Iota Chi, says on IG that it is “excited to announce that we are recognized as a local nonprofit organization associated with the Bloomsbury Intrasorority Council” and cannot wait for recruitment. This is an interesting development.

Updates:

All of the locals have decided to form their own Bloomsburg ISC.

The three nationals will be part of a local CPC that will work with NPC staff to set the new standards for their Panhellenic community. They will likely do a COB only style of recruitment moving forward, and total is set at largest chapter size +10. Because the university is no longer involved, the CPC voted to allow first semester freshmen to join, and groups will use their own national GPA requirements as the bar for that. Largest chapter is Delta Phi Epsilon at 62, with Tri Sigma at 53 and ASA at 47.

Bloomsburg has announced that they will recognize fraternities and sororities beginning next year. The school will be hiring an FSL director and two assistants.

https://www.northcentralpa.com/educa...d35156508.html

Thanks for the update

In the last three years, Bloomsburg’s NPC chapters have done a wonderful job at continuing as a successful Panhellenic. It’s going to be quite interesting to see how this plays out. The fact that they’re talking about hiring three full-time staff is interesting in that they never had more than one staff person. I have heard that the locals will be invited back as is without any national backing. I’ve also heard that the university is trying to get Greek alums to donate to fund the staff additions.

Thanks for the update shadokat. I’m hoping the orgs that did things right can be brought back and even be expanded on in the future.

It’s a big step for Bloomsburg. Full-time staff could really strengthen Greek life, but balancing locals and nationals will be tricky. If done right, it could set a good example for other schools.

Montclair State University actually has separate councils for national and local orgs. They seem to balance it well but I'm not knowledgeable about the intricacies of running it. But having enough staff could work with it in the long run.

https://www.montclair.edu/greek-life...eek-community/