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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
That's really great but it's just different for us.
I don't know if I can really even describe it. I'll say it like this- our orgs are not centered around college life, although that is a major part of their functioning. They are centered around service, and life-long service at that. Almost all of the major positions are for grads. The major service projects are spearheaded by grads. Grads have their own seperate pledge process which brings in a large percentage of the members, as opposed to the occasional few that are what I have seen to be the norm in NPC orgs. Their involvement with UGs is advisory, but that is the least of what they do.
Our grads are really the functioning body of our orgs on many levels. And they would never, ever allow such a thing.
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I'm not seeing much difference in my involvement in my alum chapter as my mom's involvement as an AKA alumna. We're doing the same kind of service projects.
Most organizations in both conferences have alumnae initiation programs. Admittedly, it's a newer concept for NPC, but that's one area where I see NPHC being a mentor since they are stronger at that.
Likewise, I think there are some areas where NPC could mentor and strengthen NPHC.
We'd have to get over the competition thing--there are plenty of amazing women in the world for every organization to have an abundance of members.
People are people--across the board their reasons for joining are both social and service related. Maybe Sistermadly said it better-
If they can't be one conference, they certainly can have a stronger interconference relationship.