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Social, collegiate, or general fraternities in the North American fraternity system are those that do not promote a particular profession, as professional fraternities do, or discipline, such as service fraternities. Instead, their primary purposes are often stated as the development of character, literary or leadership ability, or to serve a ...
A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.
In North America, fraternities and sororities (Latin: fraternitas and sororitas, 'brotherhood' and 'sisterhood') are social clubs at colleges and universities.They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sororities to differentiate them from traditional not (exclusively) university-based fraternal ...
North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) - conference formed by 75 national fraternities; Professional Fraternity Association (PFA) - association of 36 national collegiate professional, service and honor fraternities; Tau Kappa Phi Incorporated (TKPhi) - council formed by 5 national LGBTQ+ friendly Greek lettered sororities and ...
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African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2344-8. Parks, Gregory Scott (2008). Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the 21st Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2491-9.
The NIC membership requirements are detailed in the By-Laws of the North American Interfraternity Conference. [5] Each member fraternity must be national or international in scope, as opposed to local, which is defined to mean having five chapters of ten men each, having three chapters that have been part of the fraternity for at least five years, and have a constitution that calls for ...
Asian Greek Association (AGA) - Organized in 2004. Changed its name to National Asian Greek Council in 2005. National Asian Greek Council (NAGC) - Created from the renaming of the Asian Greek Association in 2005. After some restructuring, it changed its name to National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) in 2006.