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Exploring the Meaning of Membership: Black Greek Men on a Predominantly White Campus |
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This project explores the meaning of membership for twenty undergraduate members of a Black Greek organization on a predominantly white campus. In the context of high attrition rates for African American men in higher education (DeSousa & Kuh 1996), the project focuses on one possible mechanism of success and explores how the members utilize the fraternity to create connections to each other, to the campus, to the black community, and within the labor market. It connects these findings to Tinto’s (1993) theory of college student departure and has implications for the development of retention programs on predominantly white campuses and the need to support the efficacy of these organizations as one form of “ethnic enclave” (Murguia 1991) |
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voluntary associations, Greek membership, minorities in higher education |
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| McClure, Stephanie. "Exploring the Meaning of Membership: Black Greek Men on a Predominantly White Campus" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109062_index.html> |
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| McClure, S. M. , 2004-08-14 "Exploring the Meaning of Membership: Black Greek Men on a Predominantly White Campus" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109062_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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Abstract: This project explores the meaning of membership for twenty undergraduate members of a Black Greek organization on a predominantly white campus. In the context of high attrition rates for African American men in higher education (DeSousa & Kuh 1996), the project focuses on one possible mechanism of success and explores how the members utilize the fraternity to create connections to each other, to the campus, to the black community, and within the labor market. It connects these findings to Tinto’s (1993) theory of college student departure and has implications for the development of retention programs on predominantly white campuses and the need to support the efficacy of these organizations as one form of “ethnic enclave” (Murguia 1991) |
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| Exploring the Meaning of Membership McClure 2/10/2004 Introduction In his dictionary of American educational desegregation Jeffrey Raffel (1990) provides a timeline of important events in this history making it clear what a hard-won victory educational desegregation was for this country. These include the Southern Regional Education Compact which was signed on February 8 1948 by fourteen states trying to avoid the desegregation of their institutions of higher education and the Southern Manifesto signed on March 12 1956 by over |
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