Junior/Community College Chapters

[Sen's Revenge]

I recently discovered that Phi Beta Sigma had had a chaper at a community college in the DC area in the 70s.

As far as APO goes, I *think* we are allowed to have JC/CC chapters, but just happen not to right now.

[*winter*]

Interesting! I don’t remember if we (GSS) have any policy against CCs, specifically.

I bet Randy knows more about this...

[naraht]

Originally Posted by *winter*

Interesting! I don’t remember if we (GSS) have any policy against CCs, specifically.

I bet Randy knows more about this...

Why would anyone think that I might know something about this...

As of the count (made a spreadsheet) that I did last year, Alpha Phi Omega has chartered 61 of its just under 800 chapters at schools that *at the time of chartering* did not offer a four year bachelor degree. There are a few oddballs like schools of Osteopathic Medicine which focused on D.O. degrees (which are normally three year like M.D. degrees) and a few which went from 2 year to 4 year between the time that Alpha Phi Omega first chartered and today (Snow College (UT) and Miami Dade College).

As was pointed out Parkland College (which serves as a local feeder to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) has an active chapter, Georgia Military College also has an active chapter.

Well more than half of the chapters were chartered between 1966 and 1972 when apparently it was an active effort of the fraternity to spread to two year schools as well.

If you would like the complete list of schools, let me know and I am willing to send, or just let me know if you want to join the Alpha Phi Omega History Nuts facebook group where I uploaded it to after discussion.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by *winter*

Interesting! I don’t remember if we (GSS) have any policy against CCs, specifically.

I bet Randy knows more about this...

Specifically about Gamma Sigma Sigma. One of the seven founding chapters was from Los Angeles City College. I don't know if LACC and CCSF were the only chapters at 2 year schools.

(Finding an up to date list of the charters of GSS including inactives isn't something that I've been able to do.)

[Sister Havana]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

As far as APO goes, I *think* we are allowed to have JC/CC chapters, but just happen not to right now.

There is an active APO chapter (Alpha Zeta Omega) at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It was chartered in 2011.

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

There is an active APO chapter (Alpha Zeta Omega) at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It was chartered in 2011.

I honestly didn't know Parkland wasn't a four year school until this year.