Greek Councils
 

hopefully there will be the "related threads" after I post this, but searching didnt help much.

What are the different councils that fraternities fall under? NIC, NPC, NPHC....what else is there?

Basically, i'm writing an amendment for my school's SGA, and we're including a clause for SGA funding for social GLOs, and ...as we all know, you have to be VERY specific in order to have people not misconstrue what you actually meant.

So far I have:

*Social GLOs include but are not limited to, NIC Fraternities, NPC sororities, NPHC fraternities and sororities, Multicultural fraternities and sororities, independent national fraternities and sororities, and locally formed fraternities or sororities.

What else do I need to add? Thanks!

Your sorority rules.... That is all.

I like the amendment. But if you need to be specific in the amendment, then you might want to list the national councils by their full name.

The Fraternity Leadership Association (FLA)
The National Asian Pacific American Panhellenic Association (NAPAPA)
The National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO)
The National Multicultural Greek Council (NMGC)
The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC)
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. (NPHC)
The North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)

If the social male GLOs are members of a campus Interfraternity Council (IFC), then you might want to include that as well. Just so there isn't any possibility that members of the IFC are not covered. And to be safe, add regional fraternities and sororities as well. And perhaps reiterate that not all social GLOs may belong to a council by adding "independent" before both regional and local.

Amendment

*Social Greek Letter Organizations (GLOs) include, but are not limited to, member organizations of The Fraternity Leadership Association (FLA), The Interfraternity Council (IFC), The National Asian Pacific American Panhellenic Association (NAPAPA), The National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO), The National Multicultural Greek Council (NMGC), The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. (NPHC), The North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), independent national fraternities and sororities, independent regional fraternities and sororities, and locally formed independent fraternities or sororities.

The whole amendment is in regards to receiving funds from SGA. What we've noticed on our campus, is that the greek community, as a whole...um, isn't really whole. We're trying to get there, but it's not there yet.

The greek advisor, who also sits on the SGA advisory panel, wants to add this amendment to the process for what organizations must do in order to receive funds from SGA out of the student activities account. At first, when I heard the idea, it felt kinda - nazi-ish to me, but, it makes sense. We have too many greek organizations doing "their own thing" and refusing to cooperate with IGC in an effort to build a stronger campus greek community. So....with the greek advisor suggestion, and approval from the already active groups of IGC, we are suggesting the following (still tweaking the wording a little bit):

2.5 Social Greek Letter Organizations (GLO) must be actively involved in the SPSU Greek governing council, (currently the Inter-Greek Council, or IGC). In order to receive funds from SGA, Social GLOs must have representatives that regularly attend IGC meetings, and must participate in campus-wide IGC events. When submitting Fiscal Year budget requests, or additional funds requests, Social GLOs must have a letter from IGC signed by either the IGC president, or the IGC advisor, confirming that the organization is an actively participating member of IGC. A letter from IGC is required for each and every budget or additional funds request that a Social GLO submits. Social GLOs that are not actively participating in IGC are not contributing to the growth of the relationship within the SPSU Greek Community, and therefore will not receive funds from SPSU SGA.

2.5.1 (definition of Social GLO, as listed above)

I like your suggestion, because it's thorough, and I want it to be all inclusive of future organizations that come on campus. Right now, we have 2 NPCs, 2 NPHCs, 4 NICs, Kappa Sig (which last I knew was no longer part of NIC, but I dont remember) and a local fraternity. We dont have any of the first 4 you listed, but I want it to be written that if one ever does come to campus, that they will have to follow this as well.

so basically - if a social GLO wants money from SGA - they gotta participate in IGC, and IGC has to verify that they participate, which is the whole point of the signed letter.

Is there anything in your IGC about "good standing"? I remember in NJIT's IFSC, that if an organization wasn't on good standing they were not allowed to vote and some other things.

If there is something defining good standing you may want to add that to your ammendment. "GLO's eligible must be on good standing with XYZ University's IGC according to the IGC constitution and etc...."


I think it's awesome that your school is giving funding to social GLO's. my chapter's school doesn't do that. But we always went around it by co-sponsoring events with clubs and organizations like RHA and Senate to get funding for things like BBQ's and larger events.

I can tell you of at least one social fraternity that is a member of the Professional Fraternity Association, as well. Confusing, and the exception rather than the rule, yet true. ;)

Correct. Kappa Sigma is no longer a member of NIC. They are a founding member of the The Fraternity Leadership Association (FLA) which is why I included the FLA in my list. I believe currently there are nine members of the FLA. I've also noticed that many campuses are now listing FLA as part on their Greek Life site. And FYI: as far as I know, Phi Delta Theta is still the only former NIC social/general fraternity that has no affiliation with any sort of national council.

Is it Sigma Phi Delta? I would say that five - Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Gamma Sigma, FarmHouse, Sigma Phi Delta, and Triangle - would fall under the social/professional organization category? But I don't think any of the others I listed are members of the Professional Fraternity Association other than Sigma Phi Delta.

This may be a silly question, but is there a council for locals? I know it's kind of contradictory to have a national local council but I was just wondering.

I'm slow. But I got it now!

From what I understand, most locals affiliate with one of the existing councils on campus. Either as a full or as an associate member. (Would depend on the particular council's by-laws etc.) And or there may be one umbrella group on campus that covers all social GLOs and a local only needs to belong to (under) it. The Inter-Greek Council (IGC) on amanda6035's campus seems like an example of a campus umbrella group.

Have a green beer on me! :D

Is it too late for that beer?

Never too late!

this is a bit of hijack but i don't think it was worth starting a new thread: does anyone know if the Fraternity Leadership Association has a website. I was curious but couldn't seem to find one.