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Associate degrees/Greeks
Some of you folks have had an oar out of the water for some time now...let me enlighten you...as regards the juco fraternity...
The two year college, aka junior college, now softened to community college...has had Greeks...even NIC greeks.
Sig Ep, TKE, Sig Pi, perhaps others. Most have been miserable
failures...short time in group, house or not, attrition, what about
part time students? Just a few problems they faced.
A survey was made by many NIC groups, including my own, TKE,
and this was about thirty years ago. I was a community college
dean from 1970-76. The problem of transferring to the four year
school was also an issue...would they take or not take 'em?
It just did not work out. One PA school, one TX school, Miami-Dade and Broward in FL were some places with NIC chapters, and
there is the unique one...Vincennes...where Sigma Pi was founded and this seems to be an exception...anybody know how
that has fared?
The junior college fraternity...has been tossed about for over fifty
years...and a negative opinion emerged as to efficacy.
This is not to say that the Associate Degree...originally simply the
junior division of the University of Chicago...does not have use. But do not try to equate it with a baccalaureate one...in no way
shape or form does it parallel...no way. It is, though, a favored
route for athletes to play a coupla years, get thru the junior division and transfer to a four year school and play for a couple of
years...but that's another matter...
'course, some might consider auctioneering schools, cosmetology
centers, cybernetic greeks...gosh, it is wide open...isn't it?
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