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Originally Posted by gamma_girl52
In Gamma Sig, if you are a graduate student at a school that already has an established chapter, you can join that chapter (or continue your membership there if you originally pledged at that chapter and you're still there for graduate work).
Because of that, we had to change our chapter designations. Instead of saying "undergraduate" we now say "collegiate".
Most of us who have graduated and want to help out with the collegiates can be Chapter Consultants (I'm the Consultant for the chapter at UGA).
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This is interesting, because in DST we changed the official designation to collegiate for just the opposite reason. To us collegiate implies someone working toward an initial baccalaureate degree, not someone who is still on campus in grad school. Just as you are officially an alum of the where you got you bac degree, although you coninued in grrad school, we consider you an alumnae in Delta. Our official designation for grad chapters is alumnae and it encompasses anyone NOT working toward an initial degree.
For example someone who pledged their sophomore year, but then had to drop out of school for what ever reason must join an alumnae chapter to continue active status. She is still technically an undergrad but no longer working toward the degree. When she returns to school, she then has the option of rejoining a collegiate chapter or staying in the alumnae chapter.