These posts are related to the professional associations related to fraternities and sororities. They include the Association for Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA), the Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values (AFLV), the Fraternity Executives Association (FEA), and others. Most associations oversee the dominant educational conventions of our world, and so they guide much of the “thought” behind how professionals and advisers work with fraternity students.
What does it mean to be “interfraternal”? Is it an action, an affiliation, a mindset, or some combination of those things? There is pressure placed among fraternity students, leaders, and professionals to be “interfraternal,” but demands for interfraternalism can be … Continued
Your fraternity’s or fraternal foundation’s tax filing offers a window into how it functions.
The North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) recently updated the pricing on its “Campus Support Model” for IFC’s as well as IFC dues. They didn’t make a fuss about it, but I did reach out to their staff via email for … Continued
Harvard has reversed it’s policy, fearing courts would consider it discriminatory. Unfortunately, its women’s clubs have already suffered at a disproportionate rate.
Harvard enacted a policy preventing students who join single-sex organizations from taking positions of leadership on campus and from receiving letters of recommendation for some scholarships in May of 2016. There was immediate pushback from the fraternity/sorority world, and Harvard … Continued
It’s been almost nine years since I started blogging about the structure and politics of Fraternity/Sorority Life. Many things have changed in the years since I launched “BondFraternal.org” in 2011. I think I am better at naming websites, for example. … Continued