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Valuing the concept of lifelong membership and alumnae experiences are certainly closely tied together.
We don't know statistically whether it has become more common for women to transfer and want to join a different NPC or whether we are just more aware of it now. In my day, there was no communication between members of various NPC groups around the country and there was no way to ask such a question in a forum open to everybody. We simply don't know if this was common before. In fact, before our membership databases were on computer, it was probably not very easy to look up whether an individual had been a member of a different NPC. Now, any member can look someone up.
I think the reason a young woman joins a sorority determines whether she remains active. If she sees it from the start as a college thing- a way to meet people in college, a way to meet BOYS in college, a way to get to go to the cool parties- then she'll probably be done with it after college. She may still have long term relationships with her chapter sisters. I have a group of chapter sisters who value their connection but don't relate it to the national/international level and have never been involved, but have high praise for their collegiate sorority experience and the long term friendships formed there.
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