City-wide Chapter

JGoddess · #1 05-02-2007, 03:46 PM

Hey guys i was wondering if anyone knew how to go about founding a city-wide chapter. I wanted to found a chapter of a certain sorority at my school because we dont have any but was told i couldn't. So now we (the sorority and my friends and I) are trying to figure out how we can start a city wide Chapter.

You should probably know that this will be their second chapter nationally and first city-wide ever. this is knew to all of us so any help is appreciated.

1908Revelations · #2 05-02-2007, 04:11 PM

You want to 'charter' a chapter.

OmegaPDPrez · #3 05-02-2007, 06:46 PM

i would imagine that making a city wide chapter would be difficult.
does that mean you have to establish many chapters at different schools across the city?
Id like to know how you accomplish this, if you can, cause it seems really interesting!

MissCaramella · #4 05-02-2007, 07:15 PM

OmegaPDPrez, from my limited understanding of Greek life, a city wide chapter is when you have one chapter in a city and all of the colleges in that city can have members.

For example, if JGoddess's sorority established a city wide chapter in Philadelphia, then women from UPenn, Temple, etc. could become members.

Hopefully this helps!

Senusret I · #5 05-02-2007, 07:26 PM

Well, I've never done this before, so I am sorta brainstorming....

You can either be a completely off-campus, practically non-collegiate organization, having all of your meeting locations off campus, all social and service events off campus, and recruit from all schools.

Or...

You'd need at least one campus to be the "chapter seat." The anchor campus would be where you get recognized as an organization so you'd always have access to one university's benefits, such as photocopying, fliering, meeting space, etc.

You would need to have enough members at this campus to sustain a chapter.

The anchor campus administration would have to be okay with being part of a city-wide chapter. You can do preliminary research on this by checking to see which NPHC or NALFO orgs are their and accept people from multiple campuses.

After you are established on your anchor campus, or make reasonable strides in doing so, I suggest picking ONE campus at which to expand. That way you can spend time figuring out if functioning at more than one campus will even work.

I have seen city-wide or metropolitan chapters struggle for years and years, to the point where if I was regional director, I'd shut them down or reorganize with less campuses on the charter.

Good luck!

astro5gem26 · #6 05-02-2007, 08:50 PM

jdgoddess,

I am also trying to figure out how to start a city chapter, but i don't know how good of an idea it is seeing that 2 other campus have a chapter except for mine. Well let me know if you find out, while im on my own search to learn of the process from the grad chapter.

AKA_Monet · #7 05-02-2007, 10:33 PM

You all are not slick posting this info up here...

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=86900

We know who you are and where you are at all times... We have internet E.S.P.

Do you all know what a city-wide chapter even is and if you all can actually "charter" one.

And who will oversee you while you are forming, which incidentally takes a year+ if you all do it properly...

And there are legal ramifications...

1908Revelations · #8 05-02-2007, 10:53 PM

Soror, I had actually written more in my post until I checked the OP's post history.

Monet, ya betta tell em....you can't slick a slickster!

AKA_Monet · #9 05-02-2007, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1908Revelations

Soror, I had actually written more in my post until I checked the OP's post history.

Monet, ya betta tell em....you can't slick a slickster!

The key is they would want to be about researching this kind of information on their own even if it included getting off their duffs and going to the library--where the lies are buried...

And the other item is even if they are trying to found their own fraternal organization, they still need to fill out legal paperwork between their college and the US government. That is just sound legal precedence. It has to do with colleges controlling the kinds of organization recognized on campus.

However, they can "freely assemble" according to their US constitutional rights. Kevin from Sigma Nu would be a better person to discuss this as well as Valkyrie.

There is a contingent of GC Lawyers: Summerchild, LawyerGal, and several others.

OmegaPDPrez · #10 05-03-2007, 01:57 PM

well, now that i have a definition of a citywide chapter, i suppose that it is not what i thought it was afterall. but, miss caramella,
i appreciate the response!