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Originally Posted by Explicit
Why did the fraternity choose to revoke extension membership in the first place? Was it not accomplishing what it was intended to accomplish?
I think extension membership in some form would be a great idea, especially for cases of Community or Junior Colleges. I currently work at a Community College, and it would be a wonderful thing to have a chapter there, but I know that with the high turnover rate it would be really difficult to keep it going and to even get it started. However, it would be nice if those students could affiliate with a nearby school, so those that are interested would have the opportunity to seek membership (I've had students come up and ask me about it).
If the goal of extension membership is to form a new chapter at the affiliated school though, I'm not sure it would be a positive thing for 2 year schools.
I do remember a conversation where APO was not looking to have chapters at 2 year schools,
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The purpose of Extension membership was never to give students at a CC or JC membership in APO. It was always intended to 'jump-start' extension efforts at schools by getting a core of 5 Brothers who had joined thru a nearby school.
I don't know why some brought up the idea of dropping it or why they choose to. There were some who argued against dropping it. Extension Membership WAS working in Region 1, but no where else (or maybe never used anywhere else). Thus some may not have understood the value of it.
While not an expert in extension efforts, I can say that APO does not favor setting up chapters at 2 year schools, due to the issues of how long a student is there. I know in my area we only allowed a re-chartered effort to go forward at one school in part because it was now a 4 year school.
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