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I don't think it's that cut and dried (at least in Alpha Gamma Delta it isn't), so it's hard to say the best way. When we colonize a new chapter we always install an alumnae chapter too, if there isn't already one in the area. We frequently find women in the area to initiate when the chapter is initiated. When we re-colonized at the University of Michigan, there were a handful of alumna initiates and they had all come to us in different ways. One was a mother of the president of a nearby collegiate chapter, for example. For our chapters in remote areas, where they have a hard time getting alumnae advisors (like the upper peninsula of Michigan), the collegians often seek out women who can help them in an advisory capacity and we end up making those women alumna initiates. We also have special alumna initiates who are initiated at Convention. They are usually sought out by alumnae. And we have women like TauAlumna, who was going to grad school at that University and was going to go through Recruitment but they suggested AI instead because of policies.
There are so many roads to AI and it's usually a very individual situation.
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