Non-Collegiate Greek Organizations vs. Local Organizations vs. National GLO's

[deltalamb]

Hello Everyone,

I would appreciate your opinion on this one.

I am a proud member of Delta Lambda Delta Sorority which is a non-collegiate organization. Though we have members who are currently full time college students we do not currently have actual chapters on any particular campuses and our membershipis also open to those who are not in school.

My question is, do local organizations who are college affiliated still consider non-collegiate organizations to be "local". We consider ourselves local and have been by some organizations but by others we have been told that we are in a whole other class.

Non-collegiate GLO's seem to be under more scrutiny by other GLO's even more so than college affiliated orgs. I can speak for my organization by saying that we chose to be a non-collegiate GLO because there are more restrictions and rules when being college afiliated. It can even prove to be more expensive for the organization depending on the campus you are affilated with. Though we are all college educated we do not believe that a person should be denied a chance at forming a life long bond just because he/she did not attend college for whatever reason.

How do you all feel about Non-Collegiate organizations?