Journal article
A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Fraternity or Sorority Membership and College Student Success
Journal of college student development, Vol.58(7), pp.1018-1034
10/01/2017
DOI: 10.1353/csd.2017.0081
Abstract
Despite considerable debate about the effects of fraternities and sororities on college campuses, the extent to which these organizations promote or detract from student success is unclear. Therefore, we used propensity score analyses to examine the link between membership in a social fraternity or sorority and several student success outcomes. For female students, membership is associated with greater college satisfaction, grades, retention, and 4-year graduation, whereas the findings are mixed and mostly nonsignificant for male students. The results are similar regardless of students' race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and precollege academic ability.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Fraternity or Sorority Membership and College Student Success
- Creators
- Nicholas A. Bowman - Univ Iowa, Higher Educ & Student Affairs, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAJoshua M. Holmes - Univ Iowa, Higher Educ & Student Affairs, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of college student development, Vol.58(7), pp.1018-1034
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Univ Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/csd.2017.0081
- ISSN
- 0897-5264
- eISSN
- 1543-3382
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984283718102771
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