Designing a Leadership Institute

Leadership institutes and intentional educational experiences can be some of the most impactful ways our institutions and organizations develop our students as sorority and fraternity members. Institutes provide a space for students to...

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Letter from the Editors

If there were a “State of the Fraternity/Sorority Industry” address, it would likely reflect a profession navigating complexity at every turn: shifting student needs, evolving legal and institutional requirements and pressures, and growing expectations for...

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Letter from the Editors

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Position Statement: The Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors recognizes that diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) initiatives are an important facet of the forward progression of...

The Value and Benefit of the Fraternity/Sorority Experience

Position Statement: Institutions of higher education, and society more broadly, continue to reconcile their relationship with fraternities and sororities; this is occurring in concert with...

Student Health, Safety and Well-being

Position Statement: If individuals are not provided access to be physically, emotionally, and mentally safe, they will not be able to access the full extent...
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