The closed schools with chapters...

[naraht]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Parks College didn't close. It merged with St. Louis University.

True, but both the Main campus and the Parks College campus had separate chapters of Alpha Phi Omega. The Main Campus chapter continues under those letters, how else are you going to describe the charter at Parks College? While Parks College may still exist, as a separate institution capable of having GLO charters, it is closed.

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by naraht

True, but both the Main campus and the Parks College campus had separate chapters of Alpha Phi Omega. The Main Campus chapter continues under those letters, how else are you going to describe the charter at Parks College? While Parks College may still exist, as a separate institution capable of having GLO charters, it is closed.

Merged?

[naraht]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Merged?

Of the charters that could be considered "Merged", the ones at SLU & Parks College/SLU were the only one that I know both chapters were active at the time of the Merger. The Merging of the active did *not* go smoothly. (The chapter at SLU was co-ed, the chapter at Parks College/SLU was all-male).

But there really is no difference in the status of the charter than if Parks College had simply been closed with no effort to merge the campuses.

[MysticCat]

But the problem people are having is lumping schools that actually closed and schools that merged with other schools under the same "closed school" umbrella. Based on the title and the OP at least, this thread is about closed schools, not closed chapters. It's just plain confusing to conflate closures of schools and mergers of schools. A school that merged with another school isn't closed, even if that merger resulted in one chapter going dormant, likely forever.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by naraht

True, but both the Main campus and the Parks College campus had separate chapters of Alpha Phi Omega. The Main Campus chapter continues under those letters, how else are you going to describe the charter at Parks College? While Parks College may still exist, as a separate institution capable of having GLO charters, it is closed.

The chapter is dormant and likely to remain so because the host institution has merged with a different institution and is no longer a separate institution for the purpose of hosting chapters of GLOs.

[KDCat]

"Dormant" is a better word. "Closed" sounds like something went wrong for the chapter, not that the college merged with a university.