Looking for an alternative

[Kevin]

Sounds like the University of Houston.

[dekeguy]

Couple of your points need clarification. You initially stated that your fraternity had been kicked off campus. Later there were questions about your charter. OK, Did your National pull your charter, or did your school suspend your chapter for 3 years, or both. Consider what caused this situation. Consider your options.
1. Did your National pull the charter? If not, what is their policy about off campus chapters? Some Nationals will allow this considering the circumstances and some will not. You need to clarify this for yourself.
2. Did your school suspend your chapter unilaterally or in conjunction with your National. If the action was unilateral you need to talk with your National and see what options (if any) are open.
3. If your charter was pulled by National in conjunction with school sanctions then You have almost no options to continue actively as a chapter of your National until the sanctions are lifted and National is satisfied.
4. If this is the case you could reorganize as a local as has been suggested. 5. An extreme option would be to resign from your National, get clearance from HQ to withdraw and dissolve, and then form an interest group for affiliation with another National. This would depend of course on the willingness of another National to consider your petition once you are totally free and clear of your current affiliation. This option would be difficult considering you all were initiated members who had made a binding committment. Here is where circumstances come into play. What was the reason for your sanctions and what did your National do or fail to do that would justify such action on your part.
You don't need to answer these questions and thoughts on the board. You do need to think all of this through and do some serious research on procedures and acceptable justifications for such action. If there is a compelling reason you might be able to do this. If not you need to consider what National would feel comfortable granting a charter to your group.

My suggestion would be to explore your possible options and then discuss with someone who has a lot of experience in Greek matters who can advise you as to the practicalities of pulling off your possible options.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by dekeguy

An extreme option would be to resign from your National, get clearance from HQ to withdraw and dissolve, and then form an interest group for affiliation with another National. This would depend of course on the willingness of another National to consider your petition once you are totally free and clear of your current affiliation. This option would be difficult considering you all were initiated members who had made a binding committment.

Of course, there is what happened at Washington and Lee a few years back.