National fraternity to local fraternity....

[Firehouse]

1. I know of two local fraternities that have prospered within strong systems where every other chater was National: Adalente fraternity at Iowa State and KOT at Baylor.
2. If yours is a private school, they can require you to reamin the in IFC. If you are located at a public institution, then you can just be a student organization. Greek Life may try to bully you, but you are well within your rights.
3. National chapters going local is more common now than it used to be. Another recent phenomenon is chapters switching nationals! One example of that just happened on my campus where a TEP chapter petitioned IFC to switch to Alpha Delta Phi, and that change took place.
4. It would help us give you good advice if we knew your school and the national fraternity with which you are affiliated. I know something about the fraternities and they each have a different attitude.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Firehouse

1. I know of two local fraternities that have prospered within strong systems where every other chater was National: Adalente fraternity at Iowa State and KOT at Baylor.
2. If yours is a private school, they can require you to reamin the in IFC. If you are located at a public institution, then you can just be a student organization. Greek Life may try to bully you, but you are well within your rights.
3. National chapters going local is more common now than it used to be. Another recent phenomenon is chapters switching nationals! One example of that just happened on my campus where a TEP chapter petitioned IFC to switch to Alpha Delta Phi, and that change took place.
4. It would help us give you good advice if we knew your school and the national fraternity with which you are affiliated. I know something about the fraternities and they each have a different attitude.

I didn't know that a chapter could do that (other than a merger between the two groups).

[33girl]

TEP is kind of over a barrel right now (although I think they're making their way out of it) so that's kind of an uncommon case.

[Firehouse]

I'll have to do some research but I know that it happens. It's generally kept quiet. Things have changed in the last twenty years. National fraternities drop their memberships in the National (North American) Inter-fraternity Conference and then re-join (mine did; I know of three others that did as well). It's not common but once in awhile, fraternity chapters switch allegiances.
It's not the same thing, but several years ago the SAEs got kicked off at Duke. The alumni were pissed off and they took the undergrads and became a chapter of Alpha Delt. Now the SAEs are back on campus and the Alpha Delts exist off campus.