Another thread got me thinking about this one. Joining a GLO is a lifetime commitment. Not something you can change out when you transfer schools or graduate.

Widening the promotion of our NPC Sorority Experience to community college attendees thru meetings/conversations/targeted programs may be a smarter alternative to allowing NPC groups to have chapters at CCs.

I can't see that flying here except for chapters that are desperate.

That could backfire though, if it’s not expressed explicitly enough that at a lot of schools simply not being a first semester freshman severely curtails your choices. It’s one thing if a CC is a feeder to a nearby university and half the students are HS seniors trying to get ahead on college credits. It’s quite another if the CC is in the middle of nowhere and the students are going on to all kinds of different schools.

One of the *few* Alpha Phi Omega chapters at two year schools that has survived is at Parkland College, which is a community college about 10 minutes away from U of Illinois - main campus. Not only can the strong chapter at UI help, the brothers at Parkland are *mostly* eventually heading to that chapter, so it is probably about as good of an example of a "feeder school" as you can find.

APO is quite different than NPC sororities.

*ABSOLUTELY*. Never claimed it was the same. Only claimed that Alpha Phi Omega should have an easier time keeping a chapter active at a community college than an NPC sorority and... They have only managed to do so in a few cases. If 90% of APO chapters at community colleges fail, what percentage will the NPC manage?

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Sorry, I missed the point of your post. I agree with you, and think that NPC sororities at a CC would not be a good thing

*Maybe* some of the feeder schools like Parkland (next to UIUC) might pull it off, but as a change in concept to the NPC (where *any* sorority would end up with 5% of its chapters being at CCs) *forget it*.

As a reminder to myself. I've found some of the rosy pictures painted for APO on expanding more fully to CCs in the late 1960's, but can't access them from work.

Note, Alpha Phi Omega did have a chapter within its first 15 years at a school that didn't offer bachelors degrees, it was a college of Osteopathic Medicine.