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Originally Posted by pas
Has anyone ever had experience where the alumni were over involved in the chapter and actually becoming a negative factor in the sororty chapter's well being? Without being too specific, there's a chapter whose alumnae have been involved in recruitment and other non alum events. They verbally bring the chapter down but every time the chapter tries to do something about it the alums send harsh emails to the chapter and advisers.
Has anyone dealt with this before? Any ideas? I had the idea that you would only inform the alums of alum events and be careful of what you post on social media outlets...but this might be difficult dyring rush. The alums have no regard for the policies and procedures so this is also an issue.
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It's actually really common. Usually there's a volunteer structure established by the national organization that should be the chain of command for such issues. The collegians should contact the regional volunteers for their area (if there are any) or discuss it with a Leadership Consultant, who can then put things in place to address such issues. They should also make it clear that the only acceptable alumnae involvement in recruitment is that of a Chapter or Recruitment advisor, and they need to stay away from the chapter during that time. They'll get lots of threats from the alumnae of "pulling support" from the chapter, however, I've only ever seen these threats coming from recent alumnae, who, let's be honest, aren't financially supporting the chapter anyway.