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.
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
On a May 2017 episode of ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA), TV personalities Norah O’Donnell, Charlie Rose, and Gayle King took turns roasting interviewing Jud Horras – CEO of the North American Inter-Fraternity Conference (NIC). The NIC is a trade … 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
It is fascinating how various quests for utopia can bring out the worst in people or groups. As many as 60 million people died in the Soviet Union’s experiment. The Chinese Cultural Revolution, in which dictator Mao Zedong endorsed violence … Continued
Working for a fraternity is difficult to explain. Higher education professionals claim that we are higher education professionals. Others say that we are non-profit organizations. Most of the general public assumes that working for a fraternity’s central office means drinking … Continued