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Originally posted by Drolefille
I know that my situation in Saint Louis is not unique. Many schools do not recognize NPHC organizations and instead city-wide chapters are common. I am not maintaining that this is the case the majority of the time, just that it is not uncommon. For St. Louis to have city wide chapter that means, St. Louis U, Wash U, Fontbonne, Webster, and several other schools don't formally recognize the chapter as a campus organization.
This isn't a dig at the NPHC at all. Perhaps someone else can provide more detail, but some schools consider the NPHC organizations to be discriminatory because they only accept black men and women. (NOTE: I know this is not always or even necessarily often the case, but I've seen topics here where NPHC members openly question the sense of having white people as their sorors. I'm not judging this one way or the other, just commenting)
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Delta actually has more campus-based collegiate chapters than citywide. Sometime we choose to be city wide because the individual schools in a community have low percentages of Black enrollments, so to maintain a viable chapter we wish to pull from all of the schools in a city. It is that way here in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
In other cases the school will not allow additional GLOs on campus so then we go the city wide route.
And finally, sometimes we just don't want to be bound to a specific campus, because of the restrictions they may put on us.
In St. Louis, Alpha Omega began as a campus-based chapter at Harris/Stowe (as you said then Stowe Teachers College.) However, it changed its designation to citywide to be able to accomodate Wash U., SLU, etc. that did not have a critical mass of Black women from which to form a chapter. And I already mentioned UMSL and the now-defunct Eta Pi chapter.
Lastly, we also have core chapters that are based at a specific campus, but are allowed to recruit from nearby campuses. In these cases approval is required from all of the schools involved.