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Originally Posted by CuriousWildcat
I have looked into it further, due to some Title Something, if you are a single sex organization, you have to be officially social. Since we are A "professional women's" music fraternity, then (at UK at least) we are not an officially recognized as a greek organization.
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Title IX. It provides that colleges that receive any federal money cannot recognize any organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender. An exception is made for "social fraternities and sororities." Phi Mu Alpha received a letter of exemption from Title IX in 1983; in it, the federal Department of Education recognized that Phi Mu Alpha is a social fraternity, not a professional fraternity. For this reason, we can remain single-sex without losing recognition from host institutions.
FWIW, our
Centennial History says that SAI requested and received a similar exemption in the later 70s,
"claiming that Sigma Alpha Iota existed:
' . . . to foster interest in music and to promote social contact among persons sharing a general interest in that art form rather than to prepare persons for professional endeavors relating to music.'"