As part of its mission of elevating the standard of effective professional practice in working with sororities and fraternities in higher education, AFA is committed to providing guidance documents (sometimes in coordination with partner organizations) on topics relevant to building stronger practice for campus professionals, inter/national headquarters staff, and all who work within the fraternity/sorority life industry.

Published August 2025

Developed collaboratively amongst the AFA, ASCA and the NIC, this shared resource reflects efforts to build consensus around effective practice between campus student affairs leaders and interfraternity council fraternity leaders. This ‘Guidelines & Guardrails’ resource reflects the first iteration of consensus recommendations designed to drive leading practice in these four areas:

• Collaborative Partner Investigations for Organizational Conduct Issues
• Interim Action
• Chapter Sanctioning and Suspension
• Return Agreements

Guidelines & Guardrails for Interfraternity Council Chapter Relationships