I think it would be awesome for a few locals to expand to Iowa State. The one local that is here (Adelante [it's not a Latino organization, just has a Spanish name]) get a lot of unwarranted crap from most of the GLOs here.

I met a guy from a local at MIT- Phi Betta Epsilon- earlier this month and it was interesting to hear about the differences and struggles not only of a greek system placed in a larger city but of a local GLO as compared to National groups.

Re: Re: Chapter Expansion for locals
 

What the crap???

No one said anything about Kappa Delta OR Massachusetts anywhere in this thread....

If this is some sort of twisted question...I would say, yes, in general it would be much easier to start a colony of a national soroity, rather then a local, because it is much more standardized and a national has more funding.

PS Crack Kills, please note.

Hahahaha, that almost made me wet myself. ;)

I am a sister of a local sorority. Last year we registered our organization name and ever since have been considered National by our campus. We are only one chapter, but are looking to expand. I don't know if this helps or if I am wrong, but as far as our school says we are National.

--Paola
Delta Sigma Delta

From some of the research I have done U are considered a Local as long as U have 1 established chapter. Once U establish a second chapter U can be considered to be Regional. A National Organization can be defined by a few different ways. 1) By your States Article of Incorparations. 2) Having a National Executive Board setup in your GLO's Constitution. 3) Having an established chapter in another time Zone. As long as U stay with in your time zone some will say U are Regional.

Do not crucify me. This is just from some research I have done in the past year or so. But I would advise any1 to do research for themselves.

Just like I said, it depends on your organization and how you want to define yourselves. Everyone has a different take on it so I not going to try to say what the definitions are no matter how much research is done.

Thats what I think it is too. If you are taking it for the literal meaning of local and national.

Some colleges and universitys consider everyone local if they aren't affiliated with the national conferences (e.g. IFC, NPC, NPHC, etc).

how does that work? where did you register your name? and how does registering your name make you national? I'd love to learn more about this.

My local is Incorporated in the state of New Jersey and is in the process of Registering our Name and letters as a Trademark. But neither of that makes us National at all.

The biggest hurdle facing locals wanting to expand is the fact that locals usually don't have insurance...making the organization a major liability to a potential University.

Does anyone have advice for expanding to campuses where locals are not recognized by the university?

NIC requires that a new member have at least 5 chapters and that at least 3 chapters have been in existance for 5 years. I know that Phi Kappa Phi only has 6-7 chapters and is a member, and Kappa Delta Phi has more that that, all of which, except for maybe one, are in New England, is not one, but I think could be. I know that there are several GLOs that only have chapters in one state, but would have the number of chapters needed to be a member of NIC. I don't know about Panhel or Pan-Hel. I think that NIC is the only one of them that has added new members lately, but I could be wrong.

Actually I'm in klplovely's sorority and we are considered a local because at one point we had four other chapters, however, at this time, the Marist chapter is the only one that's still around.