Perspectives Archive

Helping What Happens in Vegas Reach the Whole Industry

Attending the AFA Annual Meeting provides members with the opportunity to learn, grow, and expand their knowledge and skills that are shaping and transforming the fraternity and sorority experience on campuses around North America.

2025 AFA Business Meeting Resources

The 2025 AFA Annual Business Meeting will be held...

AFA’s Commitment to Engagement, by the Numbers

At a recent workshop, I unintentionally and regrettably asked...

AVP Intensive Registration in FSCentral – Step by Step Guide

Step 1: Visit afa1976.org and click on ‘FSCENTRAL LOGIN’...

Rewriting the Playbook: Post-pandemic priorities for fraternity/sorority life

Perspectives editors were interested in hearing from a variety of voices in response to the prompt, "what should the top priority of fraternities &...

Prioritizing Change in Fraternity and Sorority Life

Fraternities and sororities have created community and connected members through a lifelong bond for decades. Tradition plays an important role: it is what connects...

Identifying Priorities: Headquarters Perspectives

What should the priorities of (inter)national fraternity or sorority headquarters be? This is an incredibly complex question. As an international fraternity staff member, I...

If You Give A State A Law

Two hazing deaths in Ohio between 2018 and 2021 propelled legislators to pass Ohio’s anti-hazing law, Senate Bill 126 “Collin’s Law,” which went into...

Facing Our Future: Reflections on our Work

In August of 2015, a piece I wrote for AFA Perspectives was published.  The piece began with the following statement: “The ugly truth is...

It’s Time!

I recently returned to higher education from retirement to an interim fraternity and sorority life position to assist my former university while they conducted...
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