Do you have to pay national dues or other fees for life? Friend is in a panic that her D who is a new recruit is going to have to pay some high amount for life (info given to her from another source). I assured her that I have never heard of this and if there are alumni fees, they wouldn’t be crazy.
To be a voting member of our (fraternity) alumni assn, you need to pay $30/year. Most don’t.
It’s a choice to be an “active” alum (paying dues, etc). Probably 99% of alums do not pay alumni dues.
Your friend needs to calm down. Sororities don’t have their own IRS-type-unit that could force alums to pay even if it wanted to. lol
Some groups let you do a large one-time payment in lieu of a lifetime of alumni dues. But in general, people only pay alumni dues if they want to be involved in an alum chapter, and that’s a choice. My father and my husband were fraternity members and never paid dues after graduation.
Thanks ladies. I thought it sounded crazy and I was hoping so as my D has be in a sorority for a couple years… I didn’t think I was wrong but wanted confirmation.
Every year I get a mailing from my Greek letter organization, inviting me to become a life member. I also get the same offer from my university alumni association. I haven’t taken either up on the offer, though I did pay annual alum dues when I was living where there were active alum groups.
For mine, I can either pay a lifetime dues of $150 or yearly dues of about $35. There is also a fee for the local alum group, which is set by the group but usually about $25.
I think saying 99% don’t pay is a bit of an exaggeration as many of my friends do pay. There are benefits too like affinity agreements with auto insurance groups, Visa and MC, some other discounts.
Yes, purely optional.
Those insurance and credit card benefits can be had with many other organizations, not just sororities. I’ll bet just joining the school’s alumni association will be as beneficial. I can’t imagine joining a social club is legally binding for life- even marriage has a way out of it’s obligations (divorce).
It is not binding in any way. Alumnae dues/fees are optional and most people don’t pay them.