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[emb021]

Originally Posted by Janerz222

Michael,

I was thinking more of the role of Greek Adviser or the Greek Affairs office within Student Affairs, where the university/college has a staff member who assists the greater Greek community (not individual chapters, but councils, for instance). Does that mesh more with your experience? My choice of verbs was perhaps vague.

For many of our chapters, it seems they serve two masters - our international organization and their college/university.

Well, even for my Fraternity its similiar.

We typically fall under the 'Clubs and Organizations' heading in the Student Affairs office (whatever it might be called). They will typically have policies and procedures that must be followed. But they usually DON'T have the time to organize the clubs, or usually assist them (that's usually left to the advisors, who may not be faculty/staff people). In my experience with chartering efforts, beyond being told the rules they must follow, there is little help/assistance received from the school officials. If the social GLOs get this, its something the non-socials and non-GLOs don't get.

As our chapters are chartered to the schools, it is expected that they must follow any policies of that school. If they have policies stricter then our National Org, they take precedence. That's always been a given in our Fraternity.

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by emb021

Well, even for my Fraternity its similiar.

We typically fall under the 'Clubs and Organizations' heading in the Student Affairs office (whatever it might be called). They will typically have policies and procedures that must be followed. But they usually DON'T have the time to organize the clubs, or usually assist them (that's usually left to the advisors, who may not be faculty/staff people). In my experience with chartering efforts, beyond being told the rules they must follow, there is little help/assistance received from the school officials. If the social GLOs get this, its something the non-socials and non-GLOs don't get.

As our chapters are chartered to the schools, it is expected that they must follow any policies of that school. If they have policies stricter then our National Org, they take precedence. That's always been a given in our Fraternity.

I'm sure it varies from school to school, but in my experience, social GLOs are more closely kept tabs on, and with that does come greater assistance (asked for or otherwise).

I went to a school with so many more student orgs compared to the number of social GLOs (400 or so vs. under 50); governance for the two groups was therefore very unequal. Personally, I preferred the less-campus-oversight model - it worked just fine.

/hijack