NPC appoints Community College Task Force

[33girl]

Affiliating is already a problem between 4 year branches and main campuses. This would make it worse.

[NYCMS]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Affiliating is already a problem between 4 year branches and main campuses. This would make it worse.

Agree. I also question the sorority experience if girls pledge for 'just' two years given that some will go on to schools without their sorority and others won't gain affiliation. (Even affiliation can be hard when it happens). Not that every freshman stays all four years, but the odds are much higher.

I think the transfer issue, as noted above and by thetalady, could become really messy, especially if girls target a specific sorority at the junior college because they want that sorority at State U rather than wanting that chapter because it feels like home.

[carnation]

I am also thinking about students who would pledge a group at a CC and then after graduating, transfer to a 4-year-college that does not have their group. Cue the whining about why they should be able to re-rush.

There are some community colleges here in Georgia that picked up some 4-year programs and then attempted to get NPCs. Crickets. I heard that one finally got an NPC group but it remains to be seen how that will work out.

[d59u]

A few NIC fraternities attempted expand to two year schools & community colleges back in the 1970s and the results were not successful.

(1) difficulty to have any continuity in a 2 year or non resident school
(2) the transfer problem
(3) small number of students with the financial means or time to participate
(4) few alumni interested in mentoring the groups.

I think the only one that survived was Sigma Pi at Vincennes University & that was mainly because they were founded there.

BAD IDEA