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I think part of the challenge with thse situations is the question of what exactly is a national sorority? KBG has declared itself to be national, but they do not (possibly cannot?) provide the same kinds of opportunities as an NPC--not anything wrong with that, but I wonder sometimes if women think they are getting something they are not because a group has chartered itself as a "national".
I speak from experience--there is a KBG chapter at my alma mater, and even before they expanded outside the IL/MI/WI region would call itself a national. The women in my organization were then in the position of having to explain why our dues were higher in comparison-- from the PNM perspective, a national is a national, right? So why is one group's dues so much higher than the other?
Yet, the benefits of membership were VERY different when talking about national networking, convention and other programming opportunities.
I am not slamming KBG or any other non-NPC national organization--because there is a place for them. But I imagine that there are some women who just don't understand that there is a difference.
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