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Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the NPHC shall be to foster cooperative actions of its members in dealing with matters of mutual concern. To this end, the NPHC promotes the well-being of its affiliate fraternities and sororities, facilitates the establishment and development of local councils of the NPHC and provides leadership training for its constituents.


The NPHC is not a regulatory arm. It is a collaborative entity created to facilitate communication between the historically black Greek lettered organizations. As such, the NPHC would not (or rather should not) necessarily have an official position on dual NPHC/NIC/NPC membership, because it would be the individual organizations that would determine that for their individual organization. For example, even when the eight (then) members of the NPHC decided to institute the MIP (membership intake process) and abandon the activities surrounding pledging, the NPHC had no control over what activities each individual member organization did to constitute its MIP. Therefore, what Kappa Alpha Psi does for its MIP is very different than what Phi Beta Sigma does to initiate new members, but both are considered MIPs.

Fuzzie Alum and CutiePie:
I would actually think that SoTrue's hypothetical would be more relevant the other way around: What if a black, white, Asian or Latina woman had pledged Alpha Gamma Delta, for example as an undergrad, and maybe 10, 15 years after graduation was sponsored and decided to join Zeta Phi Beta (since most NPHC groups have folks joining in their 20-70s, it's not uncommon for a new member to join decades after their undergrad experiences). While I assume that once you're an Alpha Gam, you're always an Alpha Gam, maybe you've since decided to be now very active in a sorority, and you decide that Zeta is active in your community, you like the women, yada, yada. The question she was asking, I guess: do the "rules" prohibit you as an Alpha Gam from joining Zeta without "depledging" or "denouncing" your Alpha Gam membership?