To stimulate and encourage those engaged in college fraternity journalism and communications; to form a center for the communication and exchange of views of all those interested in fraternity communications; to establish a community of interest through personal contacts; to raise the standard of fraternity journalism and communications; to publish information helpful to its members; and generally to do those things that will aid in elevating our profession and tend toward an intelligent understanding of the general college and professional fraternities and sororities and honor societies by administrators, students, and the general public, this College Fraternity Editors Association is formed.

Code of Professional Standards

As the association that serves the field of fraternity journalism, the College Fraternity Editors Association views its role, collectively and as individuals, with seriousness, professionalism and concern.The fraternal publication is the most prominent vehicle for communicating information about the fraternity system to its members, and is a highly informative medium about the fraternity system for the higher education community and the public at large. This association strives to establish the highest standards of professionalism for fraternity journalism, to serve the fraternity system in the best manner possible and to fully inform the membership and the general public of the true value of the fraternity system. Mindful of these facts, this Association adopts the following code of professional standards and encourages its members to strive to achieve these standards to the fullest:

1. To promote the fraternity system and its values, standards and achievements and the ideas and constructive contributions of its members;
2. To be accurate, impartial and honest in reporting;
3. To exercise good taste and editorial discretion in the use of materials submitted by undergraduates and alumni/alumnae;
4. To produce publications that are typographically and grammatically sound; that are produced on time and within budget constraints;
5. To exemplify and communicate the highest ideals of our fraternities;
6. To consider ourselves as journalists whose publications reflect the highest standards of journalism and must compete for available readership time of our college-educated members;
7. To strive to encourage new levels of accomplishment, both individual and group, as a result of reporting and editing the accomplishments of our fraternities; and
8. To provide clear and in-depth information to our members and readers about developments in, of and by the organizations we represent, and to afford the members a timely vehicle for the expression of their comments and attitudes devoted to the betterment of the organization and its ideals and goals.