Schools with all locals orgs that went national

[amanda6035]

Can someone help me out with the names of a few campuses that in the last 10 years or so may have only had local organizations that recently went through the process of bringing national organizations on campus either to absorb the local organizations, or to co-exist with the locals?

I have a friend who is an alumna of a local organization at a university that was previously a 2 year school (now 4 year) and now they want to bring on national organizations. Apparently the school is being shady about how this process is going to work - if they are going to require that the locals be absorbed, disband, or co-exist. She called me after a forum tonight with the university with questions about how national organizations work in this kind of situation that I certainly could not answer, so I wanted to research some campuses that may have recently gone through this process.

If you are a member of an organization at a school like this, how did the transition from all locals to all national, or coexisting go down on your campus? Thanks!

[IrishLake]

I know John Carroll University outside of Cleveland had all locals that were absorbed by Nationals less than 10 years ago. I want to say in 2002?

[KSUViolet06]

Armstrong Atlantic State University (GA). Their two locals affiliated with Tri Sigma and Alpha Sigma Tau in 2004.

[glittergal1985]

Also Sacred Heart University (CT) in 2009. 4 out of 6 local sororities affiliated with NPC groups ( Theta Phi Alpha, Phi Sigma Sigma, Kappa Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha). SHU had had a local-only greek system until this time.

[amanda6035]

awesome. Thanks for the responses. This is for another school in GA - Young Harris....

[glittergal1985]

Also Sacred Heart University (CT) in 2009. 4 out of 6 local sororities affiliated with NPC groups ( Theta Phi Alpha, Phi Sigma Sigma, Kappa Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha). SHU had had a local-only greek system until this time.

[sherrybaby]

I'm pretty sure that happened at Pepperdine University...around 1997 I want to say?

[amanda6035]

Yeah, after I got the first couple of responses, I did a search on those universities and found stories about Valparaiso and Pepperdine as well.

[rufio]

arizona state had a local in 2002 that affiliated with Delta Upsilon

[alum]

Wake Forest had their local sororities go national in the mid 90s. According to my Demon Deacon alumna friend who was a sister during the 70s of one of the locals, the NPC groups and WF admin promised that the chapters could keep local traditions. According to her, the brouhaha with the WF Chi O chapter in the 2004 timeframe and the Pi Phi chapter last spring is all related to the fact that NPC and WF admin are not allowing the chapters to maintain local traditions.

Admittedly she graduated 3 decades ago so her memory may be hazy on this? And of course if traditions of Fideles and Strings (the now-Chi O and Pi Phi) were debasing to pledges, of course that should NOT be carried over to a now-national chapter.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

And don't forget Shorter in Rome, GA. They had locals. One local went with Phi Mu. One local stayed local. And Zeta colonized from scratch. I think that's right .. Carnation can give you the details.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by alum

Wake Forest had their local sororities go national in the mid 90s. According to my Demon Deacon alumna friend who was a sister during the 70s of one of the locals, the NPC groups and WF admin promised that the chapters could keep local traditions. According to her, the brouhaha with the WF Chi O chapter in the 2004 timeframe and the Pi Phi chapter last spring is all related to the fact that NPC and WF admin are not allowing the chapters to maintain local traditions.

In addition to anything that could ever be construed even a tiny bit as hazing (and yes, I think our HQ's go overboard on this), sometimes locals have traditions like big brothers that HQ's don't like, because they feel it can jeopardize same-sex status. A lot of HQ's also have issues with collegians and alumnae drinking together.

Of course, the reasonable response is to just keep quiet about these things, but I can imagine more than one scenario where seemingly harmless "local traditions" can't officially be allowed to continue.

[Cruise4fun]

Ursinus College in PA has some very old locals with a few national organizations. Tri Sigma was established in 2002 from an interest group. One of the chapter founders floats on GC on occasion.

[angels&angles]

Sewanee (TN) is almost all locals, but with one fairly recent nationals, KD. I don't know if they absorbed a local or not.

[ForeverRoses]

Capital University in Bexley Ohio is in the process of bringing national groups to campus (both fraternities and sororities) up until now, they were all local.

I think Trine Univerisity (formerly TriState) in Indiana is also bringing on national groups.