Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel: Application to Fraternity and Sorority Life

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Making the Grade: Fraternity and Sorority Standards Programs

Fraternity and Sorority Community (FSC) standards programs have been a practice of campus administrators seeking to change fraternity (and sorority) culture for over three decades (Mamarchev, Sina, & Heida, 2003; Norman, 2003; Sasso, 2012; Schoper, 2009). These programs have been so much of a part of efforts by administrators, notably those responsible for fraternity/sorority advising programs (FSAP), that guiding documents such as the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) FSAP Standards included content relative to the implementation of these types of programs as recommended practice for FSAP operations (CAS, 2015; Mamarchev, Sina, & Heida, 2003). However, the extent to which these efforts have influenced culture change, engaged stakeholders in a shared objective, and facilitated student and organizational learning and development is often called into question (Reikofski, 2008; Sands & Cucci, 2013), and with good reason: a number of these programs were developed without stakeholder input (Mamarchev et al., 2003; Sasso, 2012) and have had mixed results, sometimes resulting in abandonment based on a lack of institutional and chapter effort toward making implementation a success (Norman, 2003; Reikofski, 2008)...https://scholarworks.wm.edu/educationbookchapters/1048/thumbnail.jp

Coming into Focus: Positioning Student Learning from The Student Personnel Point of View to Today

Excerpt from Coming into Focus: Positioning Student Learning from The Student Personnel Point of View to Today by James P. Barber (2012) Although 75 years have passed, it is evident that recent student affairs documents carry the same DNA as The Student Personnel Point of View. For example, The Student Learning Imperative, Principles of Good Practice for Student Affairs, and Learning Reconsidered each advocate a holistic approach to student experience and express the relevance of the student affairs educator. However, the context of higher education today is vastly different from the landscape of 1937... For the last century, the student affairs profession has been responsive to environmental changes. One way in which the profession has evolved is through strengthening its alignment with the goal of learning. Today promoting student learning is central to, not simply a byproduct of, good student affairs practice.https://scholarworks.wm.edu/educationbookchapters/1008/thumbnail.jp

A Values-Based Learning Model to Impact Maturational Change: The College Fraternity as Developmental Crucible

The period of late adolescence and early adulthood is a critical time during which individual identity is developed. One fraternity recently implemented a developmental process that facilitated identity maturation within its members by emphasizing self-awareness and reflection. Utilizing a learning model as the core component of all aspects of its programming, the fraternity conducted research to determine the impact of its learning model on the development of self-awareness. This article provides data from three years of implementation that documents significant increases in this critical developmental competency

The State of Fraternity/Sorority Research

Over 50 years ago, Baciq and Sgan (1962) wrote, “Only an increase in the factual data about fraternities will raise the level from the emotional and anecdotal to the rational and logical” (p. 95). In their introduction to The Impact of College on Students, Feldman and Newcomb (1969) noted that the periodic assessment of scientific endeavor is essen-tial for any profession. Practitioners often reflect on and discuss the nature of research in their chosen field, but generally only during conferences or in other informal ways. Feldman and Newcomb believed, however, that the reflection on research in a profession such as fraternity and sorority life should be more systemic. Despite these warnings, Fin-egan and Hines (1967) reported in American Fraternities: An Agenda of Needed Research, “Nowhere, so far as we know has anyone undertaken a ‘research program’ with college fraternity life as its focus” (p. 3)...https://scholarworks.wm.edu/educationbookchapters/1049/thumbnail.jp

Total Maximum Daily Load Document: Little Salkehatchie River and Buckhead Creek - Stations CSTL-115, RS-08076, CSTL-119, and CSTL-117

The federal Clean Water Act (CWA) directs each state to review the quality of its waters every two years to determine if water quality standards are being met. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a written plan and analysis to determine the maximum pollutant load a waterbody can receive and still meet applicable water quality standards. This TMDL document details Escherichia coli Bacteria, Indicator for Pathogens for Little Salkehatchie River and Buckhead Creek: Stations CSTL-115, RS-08076, CSTL-119, and CSTL-117. Hydrologic Unit Codes: 030502070301 - 302; 030502070401 - 403; 030502070501 - 504; and, 030502070506

Total Maximum Daily Load Document: Stevens Creek and Tributaries - Stations RS-06016, SV-351, and SV-330

The federal Clean Water Act (CWA) directs each state to review the quality of its waters every two years to determine if water quality standards are being met. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a written plan and analysis to determine the maximum pollutant load a waterbody can receive and still meet applicable water quality standards. This TMDL document details Escherichia coli Bacteria, Indicator for Pathogens for Stevens Creek and Tributaries: Stations RS-06016, SV-351, and SV-330. Hydrologic Unit Codes: 030601070101, 030601070102, 030601070103, 030601070104, 030601070105, 030601070106, 030601070107, 030601070108

Total Maximum Daily Load Document: Jeffries Creek and Tributaries - Stations PD-167, PD-256, PD-065, PD-230, RS-07205, PD-035, and PD-231

The federal Clean Water Act (CWA) directs each state to review the quality of its waters every two years to determine if water quality standards are being met. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a written plan and analysis to determine the maximum pollutant load a waterbody can receive and still meet applicable water quality standards. This TMDL document details Escherichia coli Bacteria, Indicator for Pathogens for Jeffries Creek and Tributaries: Stations: PD-167, PD-256, PD-065, PD-230, RS-07205, PD-035, and PD-231. Hydrologic Unit Codes: 030402010901, 030402010902, 030402010903, 030402010904, and 030402010905

The Role of Child Support Insurance in Antipoverty Policy

This article describes existing child support practice in the United States, giving attention to the establishment and enforcement of parental child support obligations as well as to publicly provided child support benefits. Effects of the current system on alleviating poverty are assessed. The article addresses several questions. Should low-income ab sent parents be excused from the obligation to support their children? Can child support provide more generous benefits to single-parent families while minimizing incentives for the formation of single-parent families? Should children in single-parent families be aided by a welfare program? What are the problems with the current child support system? Finally, a proposal for a new child support insurance system is described, along with estimates of the costs of the system and its effects on poverty and welfare dependence. The relationship of estimated benefits to costs is promising enough to warrant trying out the new system in selected jurisdictions.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67275/2/10.1177_000271628547900108.pd