August 2026 - Artificial Intelligence in Fraternity/Sorority Life
Letter from the Editors
When we put out the call for this issue, we anticipated the topic of artificial intelligence in the fraternity/sorority industry would generate a lot of interest. The range of perspectives we received for this issue was vast: from professionals turning their decades-long norms for the work on their head to integrate AI more to people offering long-reasoned caution to diving too deeply into AI in the day-to-day work. That range is exactly why we wanted to do this issue.
From the Desk of the Executive Director
Like many of our FSL support operations, AFA is a small, but mighty team. We are a collective community that is asked to punch above our weight in a number of ways. As a small team, we attempt to leverage tools that help us to do our work more efficiently, and with greater focus. AFA leverages AI tools to learn more about our constituents and their interactions with AFA, identify trends in our engagement data, and to better drive and facilitate our interactions with our people (our members, our donors, and our constituents more broadly). But like any tool, it must operate from a shared set of guardrails, especially since it is a tool that can either make our human connections more focused, or render them less valuable.
As a quarterly magazine, Perspectives provides a forum for research, ideas, and information related to fraternities and sororities that is thought-provoking and innovative, shares new information, highlights best practices, and challenges thought. Perspectives promotes the exchange of various angles, arguments, contexts, and experiences to stimulate a deeper understanding of fraternity and sorority advising, education, programs, and policies.