AFA Essentials

September 2023 • Hazing Prevention

How can headquarters empower members to end and prevent hazing?

One of the most perplexing questions higher education professionals and inter/national organization headquarters staff struggle to answer is how hazing can be prevented and...

Symposium puts focus on hazing prevention

Research is very important to hazing prevention. The data...

Building Healthy Groups to Prevent Campus Hazing

The start of fall on a college campus is...

A Conversation with the AFA President

Things are looking a little different in Perspectives this issue. Since we are at a point of transition, we thought this would be a good time to shake up the AFA President's message as well....

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Symposium puts focus on hazing prevention

Research is very important to hazing prevention. The data...

How can headquarters empower members to end and prevent hazing?

One of the most perplexing questions higher education professionals...

Building Healthy Groups to Prevent Campus Hazing

The start of fall on a college campus is...

Developing Your Own Growth Philosophy

For the last couple of years, it seems like...

Recruiting the Next Generation of Sorority Women

Enrollment declines on college campuses are not news at...

Growth and Expansion: The Dance Between Campuses and Headquarters

Prior to coming to work at a Fraternity Headquarters,...

Find a Growth Strategy That Fits (Part II): Marketing the Sorority Experience?

College Panhellenic communities are experiencing new challenges around enrollment...

Find a Growth Strategy That Fits: Part I

Membership growth is vital to our industry. Without growth,...

Does Size Really Matter? Supporting High-Functioning Micro Chapters

There is no question that organizational growth has been,...

Bringing an Equity-Centered Framework to Sorority and Fraternity Campus Professionals

The sorority and fraternity life (SFL) field has dramatically...

From a House to a Home: An educational approach to Fraternity and Sorority Housing

The conversation around fraternity and sorority housing has largely...

Reimagining FSL: Implementing a Functional Area Based Staffing Structure

It has become imperative to adopt fresh approaches to...

Tradition or Trash? Successful Support for CBFOs, Part II

Context Clues: Cultural Competency in Asian + Latinx Hazing...

About Essentials

Essentials is a monthly educational e-publication provided to AFA members to explore selected topics. Editions seek to start conversation around the way we approach our work and to illuminate innovative ways of pushing the fraternal movement forward. Editions are typically published on the second Wednesday of each month from February to November. Please note that pieces included in Essentials provide various perspectives across the field of fraternity/sorority life, and thus may not be reflective of the policies or positions of the association. Learn more…