GLO membership and being a part time student
 

Is it possible to stay a full member in your GLO if you become a part time student?

In KD, in order to be active in an undergraduate chapter, you must be considered full time at your school.

Ditto for Phi Sig

Sorry, normal standard is FULL TIME Student. I had pledged a Fraternity and over loaded while doing it! Had to drop Fench!

Oops made Grades was a pledge again till go booted!:D

Thank god I got booted!:cool:

Same applys for ADPi, have to be full time.

I suggest that if you are in a GLO and need to go part time just talk to the chapter or chapter advisor and see if you can go inactive for a semester or so. Everyone has personal things come up in their life that need to take presedence.

Brianna

ok, I have a question about this. What if it i sthe students last semester and he/she only need 6 or 9 credits to grad? Would the student have to go inactive/alum or haver to pick up another class (a humanities or some kind) or would HQ see that he/she only needs 2 or 3 classes and let it slide?


and yes I know each Org. would be different, but I want a general idea.

I'm pretty sure it's a hard and fast rule....
It possible that there are panhel rules about it as well (either local or national).

We require 6 hours of enrollment.

For Kappa Alpha Theta as is for most if not all NPC orgs, you must be enrolled as a full time student to remain an active member. This doesnt mean however that you are no longer considered a member of your group, or that folks in your chapter or elsewhere will not talk to you, etc. etc.

This has actually been my situation this semester. I currently am taking 9 hours because that is all I needed to graduate and didnt feel the need to take or pay for more than that for the sake of remaining active in my sorority. However, while I have truly missed many things, and sometimes wish I had taken an extra bunny class just to stay active, I do still hang out with my girls and keep in touch and do go to some things......for example, our Rock the CASA philanthropy fundraiser, AOPi LIp Sync Competition, BIg/Lil Night, Initiation, Rush/Recruitment, Bid Day, etc. I cant go to meetings as an inactive member, or things that get paid for through dues that I dont pay as an inactive member such as retreat, formal, and mixers, or playing on Theta intramural teams (league fees comes out of our dues as well).

As far as Alpha Phi Omega, I'm not sure on that, I dont think my chapter has really cared or bothered to enforce that if there is such a rule. As for Alpha Kappa Psi, I'm not really sure either but I have a gut feeling that atleast 6 hours are required, to remain an active member.

I think all NPC orgs require you to be a full-time student.

However, I'm unsure about what happens if you start a semester with enough credits to qualify you as a full-time student but end up dropping a class at some point through the semester that puts you into the part-time student category.

Same goes for Pi Beta Phi--you must be a full-time student.

This is another good point. I think it may vary from GLO to GLO. In Theta if you start off as full time, you've paid your dues for that semester.......and if you end up dropping a class that puts you back at part time later in the semester, it donest matter for us because you did attempt a full tiem course load, you just wont be eligible for dean's list, president's list etc. and other kinds of recognition in the chapter itself. I dont think there is a current "rule" if you will for people who do this repeatedly every semester.......but there should be I think......because that tends to get a bit ridiculous.

Yes, there is a need for flexability! But Our members are placed in an Alum Status if so requested!:(

It does depend on each Organization how they want to play it!

It really does not seem to come up that often! Thank Goodness!

Re: GLO membership and being a part time student
 

Our Chapter requires 8 credits hours if you are going part-time.

We have a policy in which a member can apply for associate member status. It's usually only upperclassmen and they must have a very good reason for applying--studying abroad, internship, etc... And then it must be voted on by the advisory board before the member is allowed that status and then approved by our PDC. The member still has to pay her per capita and dues, plus room and board if she is living in the chapter house, but is somewhat excused from mandatory chapter functions (chapter, etc...)

Associate membership is also granted to those college women who have been initated and not yet graduated and transferred to another college at which:
1. There is no chapter there
or
2. She decides not to affilliate with the chapter there. Upon graduation, the member is given alumnae status.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

If it's your last semester and you only have like 6 credits, I would hope HQ wouldn't have a problem with you going alum for that last semester. It would be horrible to make someone deactivate for that reason.

I've never heard of starting w/ a full load, dropping to part-time and getting notified you can't be active anymore. The only thing I can think of is that you perhaps can't vote or hold office.

Truthfully, I think if you are willing to pay the dues, some groups will overlook the part-time thing...we had a sister who was part-time for most of her career and she was definitely active.

I'm sure when it is a sisters last semester and she only needs 6-9 credit hours worth of classes, the chapter might work with the sister. I say this because when I joined back in 98, I didn't know most of the seniors. They were only required to attend chapter (at least from my perspective). I'm sure it was because it was their last semester. I rarely saw them at the house, I rarely saw them doing things that I was required to do or that other actives who weren't seniors were required to do.
I remember my last semester and I had actually affiliated I probably would have insisted on limiting my activities that last semester because school was my priority. I was so stressed with impending graduation, classes. I would have lost my mind if I had to do more than the bare minimum of a sorority.
I'm sure it varies chapter to chapter.

Brianna