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To the AFA Community and the broader fraternity/sorority life community -  I want to recognize the gravity of the moment, as we collectively react to the multiple recent incidents of organizational misconduct involving serious allegations of...

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Building the Professional Home

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Building the Professional Home

AFA entered the 1980s with a constitution, a newsletter, and as a group unto its own. What it did not yet have was a settled idea of what it would become.

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AFA entered the 1980s with a constitution, a newsletter, and as a group unto its own. What it did not yet have was a settled idea of what it would become.

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