If you could design an AI program.........

[SWTXBelle]

AIs in Gamma Phi have to be recommended or sponsored by an alumnae group. I believe the thinking is that the AI will be active with the alumnae group, so it makes sense that the alumnae group "sponsor". So in my experience, when a collegiate chapter wishes to recommend someone for AI, they do so thorugh the alumnae chapter with which they work. The alumnae chapter does the paperwork and the member education, while the collegiate chapter does the initiation. I have no idea how it works for those initiated at Convention.

[33girl]

The problem is that there isn't always a clear "pairing" of collegiate chapter and alumnae chapter. There are chapter associations, created specifically to support a specific college chapter, but not all groups have them. (I think that all groups should but that is another thread. )

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Alum clubs in the NPC can't, or at least generally can't, initiate members. So they have to rely on the collegiate chapters to initiate. In the past, when most AIs/honorary initiations were either occurring A) at convention B) at the installation of a new chapter C) by a chapter honoring a volunteer/advisor/house mother, that was not really a problem. Now that alum clubs are selecting AIs... it is a more awkward situation.

Ah, and see that's the part of it we don't have. Our alum associations don't select, recommend or sponsor honoraries. A member of an alum association (like any other alumnus or collegiate brother in good standing) could recommend someone to the NEC for initiation as a national honorary initiate, and an alum member could, I suppose, suggest to a collegiate chapter that the chapter consider someone for honorary initiation. But alumni associations, as such, have no role in the process at all. It's completely a chapter's decision (with the province governor's approval) or the NEC's decision.