North-American Interfraternity Conference

The North - American Interfraternity Conference (NIC, North American connection cross Assembly), founded on 27 November 1909 as Interfraternity Conference is an association of male fraternities and sororities of the North American Fraternities.

Although the association was founded on 27 November 1909, the institutions were established only in 1910. The highest body is the Assembly of Delegates ( House of Delegates ), appointed a representative to each connection. The executive power is in the hands of the elected Executive Board (Board of Directors ), which consists of nine volunteer members of different connection. The headquarters of the Association is located in Indianapolis, there at the umbrella organization of some full-time organizers are busy.

For the purpose of NICs include, among others, joint actions of the student organizations on various occasions to promote matters and procedures of member organizations to investigate to determine the facts and to collect numerical data and the member associations to provide ( " but not be limited to available in a suitable form to, promotion of cooperative action in dealing with matters of mutual concern fraternity, research in areas of fraternity operations and procedures, fact-finding and data gathering, and the dissemination of search data to the member fraternities. "). The activities of the Federation may, however, in no way hamper the rights of the member associations for their own self-government or question ("[ c] onference action Shall not in any way abrogate the right of its member fraternities to self -determination. ").

For NIC were in 2007 a ​​total of 69 member associations, with more than 5,500 local calls ( Chapter) are connected to more than 800 universities in the United States and Canada that promote total of about 350,000 frat boys. The original name Interfraternity Conference was changed in 1931 in the National Interfraternity Conference. In order to represent the Canadian connections appropriate to the name in 1999, was eventually changed to North - American Interfraternity Conference.

Member compounds

Since 2002, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Sigma Kappa have completed the membership in the NIC due to differences. Phi Sigma Kappa has the NIC connected 2006.