NIC "Open Expansion"

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I don't know if that makes a difference. Who is the NIC to say what a University's administration can or cannot do?

Any PRIVATE school administration can regulate fraternity expansion, NIC rules prohibit IFCs from doing so. At public schools, Constitutional rights of free association trump everything.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by tallgreekalum

Any PRIVATE school administration can regulate fraternity expansion, NIC rules prohibit IFCs from doing so. At public schools, Constitutional rights of free association trump everything.

Creating a fraternity does not mean that fraternity will be recognized by the school, even a public one.

In my post that you quoted, I was making a point that NIC has no authority over what a school can do. NIC only has power over local IFCs.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Creating a fraternity does not mean that fraternity will be recognized by the school, even a public one.

In my post that you quoted, I was making a point that NIC has no authority over what a school can do. NIC only has power over local IFCs.

That's true. Public schools are allowed to have standards and requirements for access to benefits/recognition.

[tallgreekalum]

A public school can have standards for recognizing student organizations, but if they recognize one fraternity, they can't ban others, EXCEPT for cause, ie, ABC could be banned for five years because of repeated hazing violations, but not because an administrator (or IFC) decided that there were "too many fraternities"

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Creating a fraternity does not mean that fraternity will be recognized by the school, even a public one.

In my post that you quoted, I was making a point that NIC has no authority over what a school can do. NIC only has power over local IFCs.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by tallgreekalum

A public school can have standards for recognizing student organizations, but if they recognize one fraternity, they can't ban others, EXCEPT for cause, ie, ABC could be banned for five years because of repeated hazing violations, but not because an administrator (or IFC) decided that there were "too many fraternities"

How are NPC sororities able to expand in the way that they do? If the campus or local panhellenic doesn't feel that a new sorority is needed, they can pass up on a new NPC.