...FRATERNITY/SORORITY MEMBERSHIP ON COLLEGE EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES: A PORTRAIT OF COMPLEXITY Ashley M. Asel, Tricia A. Seifert, and Ernest T. Pascarella This study estimated the effects of fraternity/sorority membership on a wide range of college experiences and outcomes for first-year and senior college students at a large, public, Midwestern university. The findings suggest a complex portrait of the relationships between affiliation, engagement, and learning outcomes. Fraternity/sorority membership appeared to facilitate social involvement during college but may have limited the diversity of relationships. It was associated with higher levels of community service, but also increased the odds of excessive alcohol use. In the presence of controls for important, confounding influences, being a fraternity/sorority member had little consistent influence on grades or perceived impact of college. There was little support for gender differences in the impact of affiliation. Finally, implications for student affairs professionals in their work with undergraduate fraternity/sorority leaders and members were considered. Most institutions of higher education hold student learning and success as parts of their primary missions (Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, Whitt, & Associates, 2005; Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, & Associates, 1991). Faculty members, staff members, and administrators have attempted to distinguish between the in-class and out-of-class experiences that foster – as well as inhibit – student...
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...numerous generations, ranging from young adults to senior citizens. History The history of the New Horizon not only exist on a local level but also includes a national level. Dr. Ernst, a professor at the Eastman School of Music, began the New Horizons band, a musical community where senior citizens gather to create music (Cole). Since 1991, the organization has continued to grow throughout the United States and now includes the involvement of over ten-thousand members (“Concept and Philosophy”). Likewise, the New Horizons Band provides an outlet for shared cultural experiences, musical growth, and friendships as senior citizens and undergraduates gather for rehearsals and performances. In 2006,...
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...undergraduates (50% first-year students, 50% seniors, 16% fraternity/sorority members, and 58% females) at 15 AAU public research universities revealed that Greek affiliation had a weak positive relationship with engagement and gains in learning. The effects for Greek affiliation were stronger for seniors than first-year students. During the past 4 decades, the role of fraternities and sororities on college campuses has come under increasing scrutiny (see Clark, 1962; Jakobsen, 1986; Kuh, Pascarella, & Wechsler, 1996; Maisel, 1990; Winston & Saunders, 1987). Critics of the Greek system have pointed to research showing that membership in a fraternity or sorority is associated with higher levels of alcohol use (Wechsler, Kuh, & Davenport, 1996), lower levels of personal development (Wilder, Hoyt, Doren, Hauck, & Zettle, 1978; Wilder, Hoyt, Surbeck, Wilder, & Carney, 1986), and lower levels of academic achievement (Blimling, 1993; Pike & Askew, 1990). Recently, criticisms of the Greek system have intensified and focused on research results showing that Greek affiliation can have negative effects on students’ learning and intellectual development (Pascarella et al., 1996). Based on results of the National Study of Student Learning (NSSL), Kuh et al. (1996, p. A68) concluded: “Fraternities are indifferent to academic values and seem to short-change [sic] the education of many members.” NSSL researchers recommended that “rush and new-member activities, especially for White men, might...
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...Team Collapse at Richard, Wood, Hulme, LLP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SITUATION ANALYSIS Established in 1998 by Chris Richard, Gemma Wood and Lauren Hulme, Richard, Wood and Hulme LLP (“RWH”) is a financial services firm offering audit and taxation services to its clients with a mission of delivering excellent service and improving clients’ internal controls. Being a “team player” is an essential trait of a RHW employee because client audits are completed by teams. The client fee is flat, so the more efficiently and effectively the team members’ work, the higher the margins the firm realizes. The firm does not tolerate those with poor teamwork behaviors as evidenced by the fact that RWH has terminated only a handful of employees since the firm’s inception, and those terminations were mainly because those individuals were not able to work effectively in teams. The case is set in the Fall of 2008 at the height of the North American financial crisis and at a time when some of RWH’s clients are filing for bankruptcy and others are demanding reductions in audit fees. During this difficult economic time, RWH is opting to maintain existing staffing levels and as a result is losing money. However, RWH views an event scheduled to occur in 2011, the conversion of Canadian financial reporting standards from GAAP to IFRS, as an attractive business opportunity and wants to maintain its current staffing level to take advantage of this future opportunity. During the Fall of...
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...including people with disabilities, people with HIV/AIDS, addicts, senior citizens, and many more. After reviewing the different vulnerable populations and seeing the challenges each has I have decided to focus on the senior population. This is an area I am passionate about and hope to work as an advocate for in the future. The following information will address the special needs of senior citizens, programs and services for the aging, and the multicultural issues faced by this vulnerable population. The Senior Population The senior population usually refers to people who have reached the age of 65. This population is vulnerable because seniors typically are on predetermined incomes, live alone or with an aging spouse, have some form of debilitating disease, and lack the ability to perform daily activities. This vulnerable population is continuing to grow as the Baby Boomers have reached senior citizen status. According to the Washington State Office of the Attorney General (2009), The United States is in the midst of huge demographic shifts, with a third of [the] population reaching retirement age in the next few years. On January 1, 2006, [B]aby [B]oomers began turning 60 at the rate of one every 7.5 seconds. The criminally minded stalk this growing population of seniors, waiting to pounce on those who, by virtue of their age, are more likely to be isolated and struggle with poor health (p. 1). Senior citizens may rely on other people to help with daily tasks and...
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...2013) which is done by intervension of senior member of a profession to junior member(s) of the same profession. In other word, supervision is done by senior to guide the juniors in developing the juniors cometence in their profession. Furthermore, Scottish Social Service Council in one of published journals stated that supervision is the process which has purpose to support, assure and develop knowledge, skill, and values of the supervisee (person being supervised). Here, supervisor plays a role to improve the supervisee’s performance...
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...serves as a proxy to the bigger issues that were present during the engagement. The Deloitte team was made up of five members. Two senior leads of the group, David Hendry, and Annette Wattley-Davis, had extensive experience both with the Consulting Company and the automotive industry. Given the complexity of the project, and especially the urge for delivering concrete quantifiable results within relatively short 12 week engagement, it seemed as a sound strategic decision to enforce the consulting team with these high-profile experienced employees. The other three members, Ben Rohan, Maria Chen and Ramesh Patel, were the most critical part of the engagement. Of this group only one, Rohan, was a senior consultant with extensive prior experience in procurement and manufacturing. He also had been on three different engagements while with Deloitte. On the other hand, Maria and Ramesh did not have enough relevant experience, especially in client-facing situations. The three team members were supposed to do all the actual legwork in interacting with the client on daily basis, collecting and analyzing data, finding, presenting, and helping with the implementation of the solution to the client’s inventory problems. It is obvious that their outstanding academic credentials and technical skills were a great asset for the team, and given the right guidance from the senior managers they were capable of tackling the problem at hand. However, this did not happen. David Hendry was only nominally...
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...isn’t enough to hire a common caregiver. It is important to choose a home care solution that is complete and can be relied upon. Using a personalized solutions for seniors can enhance over health, accelerate healing and create a lasting bond with carefully selected caregivers. Personalized Home Care There are quite a few positive reasons for selecting personalized home care. One of the aspects that leads the advantages of choosing a home care plan that is custom designed is the bonding experience seniors have with their caregivers. Traditional home care dose not utilize a process to find a home care giver that truly can bond with your loved one. Personalized home care solutions are more complete. Caregivers may spend numerous hours per week with your loved one. This aspect is important because it provides a comfortable...
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...My freshman year in High School I participated in athletics. I was initially on the JV team, but because of my exceptional performance both on the track and in the classroom, I was moved to the Varsity team. This further elevated my leadership skills and helped me communicate better with my peers. Then my sophomore and junior year I was apart of multiple honor societies and their connected activities. Mu Alpha Theta, a math honor society, involved themselves in a multitude of city events as well tutoring kids in low income and underrepresented areas and schools. National Technical Honor society is another group where I participated in helping in local events and fundraisers. My senior year, multiple groups of organizations, came together to...
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...racticeBriefing Notes: Best Practices in Professional Development Introduction A firm interested in increasing its employees’ skills and competencies while deepening their employees’ commitment to the organization should c onsider three interventions: the nature of the job, formal training and the mentoring/co aching process. This paper on best practices outlines the issues firms fa ce in developing programs in these three areas and disc usses which practices, program designs or methods firms should take up in response to these issues. The Job Research in firms suggests that younger professionals are drawn to two different kinds of firms: the firm with a great reputation in the field, and the smaller, often less reputable, firms that offer younger people a broader range of opportunities. They usually favor the former when they regard their first or secon d job as a way station to a longer-term career in another company or setting and want to garner the “halo” effect of having worked at a great firm. This phenomenon o c curs in other professional services as well. For example, many consultants are happy to go to M cKinsey for their first five years of employment even though the prospect of becoming a partner and then a director are quite limited, and the work itself is extremely taxing. Many firms, however, cannot rely exclusively on the limited supply of skills within the firm to create opportunities for learning and growth. Therefore, these firms must...
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...week’s assignment I am going to examine the Board of Director’s at a startup company called Curbside. By their own definition, Curbside is an app that allows you to find and buy products available at nearby retail stores. When your order is ready to pick up, we notify you. Drive to the store, park at our kiosk outside the retailer and we will load your purchases into your car. We turn any retail store into an efficient shopping experience. The current Board of Directors for Curbside is: * Jaron Waldman – Founder and CEO of Curbside. Jaron is a two-time entrepreneur with his first startup, Placebase, acquired by Apple in 2009. Jaron has experience leads enterprise level engineering and software development teams. * Jerry Yang – Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Jerry is famously known for founding Yahoo with David Filo. Jerry has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and it widely regarded as a brilliant technologist. * Mike Volpi – Partner at Index Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Mike was a senior executive with Cisco where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development and alliances. Mike also holds an MBA from Stanford. * James Walker – Founder and CEO of Inadco, a mobile ad tech startup based in Palo Also. Previously James has held VP of Sales roles with Connexus and Netblue. James holds a Political Science degree the University of Wisconsin. * Chad Richard – Sr. Director of Product Marketing at...
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...Sexual Harassment in the Workplace EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Paramita Chaudhuri Health and Population Innovation Fellowship Programme Working Paper, No. 1 This report is the result of a project entitled “Understanding Sexual Harassment in the Health Sector,” undertaken as part of the Health and Population Innovation Fellowship (HPIF) awarded to the author in 2004. The HPIF programme is administered by the Population Council, New Delhi and is a continuation of the MacArthur Foundation’s Fund for Leadership Development (FLD) fellowship programme that continued over the period 1995 to 2004. The Council is grateful to the MacArthur Foundation for its support to this programme. The HPIF programme aims to support mid-career individuals who have innovative ideas, leadership potential, and the capacity to help shape policy and public debate in the field of population, reproductive health and rights in general, with a focus on two priority themes – maternal mortality and morbidity, and the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. Since the transfer of the programme to the Population Council through 2006, a total of 17 individuals have been supported under the HPIF programme. For additional copies of this report, please contact: Paramita Chaudhuri Senior Programme Officer Sanhita 89B Raja Basanto Roy Road Kolkata 700 029 Email: sanhita@cal.vsnl.net.in Phone: 033-24227965 Population Council Zone 5A, Ground Floor India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road...
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...FRATERNITY INVOLVEMENT AMONG BSMT STUDENTS A Research Paper Presented toMr. Bernie S. Bayogos Mentor, Research and Evaluation Iloilo State College of Fisheries College of Maritime Studies TiwiBarotac Nuevo,Iloilo In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the subject Research 311 -Research and Evaluation By: Ezekiel A. Majano 1stsemester, S.Y. 2012-2013 APPROVAL SHEET A research paper entitled “FRATERNITY INVOLVEMENT AMONG BSMT STUDENTS”, prepared and submitted by Ezekiel A. Majano in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Research 311-Research and Evaluation is hereby accepted. Bernie S. Bayogos, MAEM Subject –Teacher BOOTS D. Arroz, MAEd. Reader –Critic AMALIA D. Dohina,MILE-Soc. Sci. Reader-Critic Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Research 311- Research and Evaluation. Bernie S. Bayogos, MAEM Subject –Teacher Date TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page TITTLE PAGE i APPROVAL SHEET ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii DEDICATION iv ABSTRACT v LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii LIST OF APPENDICES viii I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Statement of the Problem Hypothesis Theoretical and Conceptual Framework Significance of...
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...program A policies and procedures human resource department would allow Escape to the Wild to: • Formulate appropriate policies that ensure health & safety regulations are adhered to as well as following legal requirements for employees. • Formulation of working procedures alongside managers and line managers. • Free line managers, the existing finance manager and senior managers from the human resource tasks they are currently spending valuable time on, some of which they are ill equipped to handle. The activities that Escape to the Wild would need to undertake would be as follows: • Formulate and agree upon policies and procedures that would be beneficial for the running of Escape to the Wild. • Ensure policies and procedures are both in line with legal obligations as an employer as well as adhering to health & safety regulations, upholding employee rights and disciplinary action is fair and concise. A formal recruitment and selection program would allow Escape to the Wild to: • Provide a fair systematic approach to selection of applicants and a more overall view of those who apply taking experience and qualifications into account. • Having the new human resource function handle this process would mean line managers would no longer need to spend precious time on this task leaving them to continue with their normal tasks. The activities that Escape to the Wild would need to undertake would be as follows: • Place advertisements both internally on the management...
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...Case Study Analysis: The Reluctant Workers Name Withheld BUS xxx-Business Class Professor Name Withheld Saturday, May x, 20xx Case Study Analysis: The Reluctant Workers Tim Aston, a young Project Manager only three months into the company, is experiencing difficulty with the operation of his project. The case study is a dialog between Tim and his director, Phil Davies, concerning the advancement of the project. The analysis is on three of the ten effective program management skills and the improvements that should be made for the project to succeed. The three skills identified and analyzed are team building, leadership, and management support, based on my interpretation of the case study. I also have recommendations for both the project manager and the director of project management that will improve environment for the project, and the relationship between the project manager and his staff, and between the project manager and the director of project management. Team Building Team building is described as one of the main responsibilities of the program manager.. "Team building involves a whole spectrum of management skills required to identify, commit, and integrate the various task groups from the traditional functional organization into a single program management system. To be effective, the program manager must provide an atmosphere conducive to teamwork." (Kerzner, 2009, p 148-149) The characteristics for effective team building are choosing committed workers...
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