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Originally Posted by bejazd
Hate to dumb it down, but I'm reminded of Harry Potter and the Sorting Hat. I guess we all have to go thru this sort and identify process as a rite of passage in some way!
I know I'm still learning things about my sorority many years after my initiation, and our membership ed program is constantly evolving. We all seem to be on a shift of talking about "core values" although even that has evolved somewhat since our founding in order to make membership more open and meaningful to a broader group of women. I'm great with that, but we can't talk about values like scholastic achievement and service to community and then put 90% of our resources into social activities. If you want to know what people value, look at how they spend their time and their money. And then you have an idea why our membership ed programs are challenged. We can't "motivate" people to value things that they do not value. So to me, the challenge is to find balance between "social" and "core values" and combine these things in a way that works!
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I don't think the social activities are the issue - if you mean mixers, date parties etc - it seems to me that sororities and fraternities these days have LESS of these activities, not more.
Our groups might have evolved in some ways that are beneficial (such as removing exclusionary clauses based on race and religion) but I'd hate to think the purposes our founders had are being changed and diluted to make GLOs more politically correct and palatable to college administrators.
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