Presentations at Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Conference

After the hustle of the Thanksgiving holiday break, I will be heading to Tampa Bay, Florida. I will be co-presenting several sessions related to my research and sponsored research with the Penn State University Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity & Sorority Research & Reform. There will be five sessions in which I will be featured and privileged to share findings to inform the sorority/fraternity experience and working contexts for campus-based advisors. I will present three main sessions as well as two research presentations at the Research Symposiums. These research sessions will be focused on my antisemitism and Jewish student research as well as my forthcoming research on sorority member mental health peer support.

A National Comparison of Fraternity & Sorority Student Organization Accountability Models (ASCA Sponsored Program)

Pietro Sasso, Dawn Maynen, Corey Esquenazi

This session will share findings from a national qualitative study of student conduct administrators to identify the approaches or models they use to facilitate student organization and fraternity and sorority chapter accountability within their campus conduct systems. Existing models of student organization accountability will be reviewed and compared to new findings from this study. Presenters will provide a typology of formal and informal models applied by higher education professionals and will center the role of campus-based professionals. New models will be compared to existing models of student conduct administration. Implications for practice will include new ways of thinking to facilitate student learning and stakeholder engagement for sorority and fraternity chapters within the conduct process.

Promoting Jewish Sorority & Fraternity Placemaking & Sense of Belonging

Jenny Small & Pietro Sasso

This session will explore the nuanced ways in which Jewish undergraduate sorority and fraternity members engage in varying processes of placemaking to find sense of belonging within their chapters. The researchers will identify the historic pattern and contemporary challenges related to antisemitism on college campuses and within sororities and fraternities. Jewish sororities and fraternities will be centered to highlight how they can serve as sites of resistance against antisemitism and spaces of belonging for students. Implications for practice will be shared to include specific ways campus-based professionals can address inclusion of Jewish students in leadership and other engagement opportunities.

Multiple Masculinities and Multiraciality in Fraternity Men: A National Study of Developmental Pathways

Pietro Sasso, Lindsy Perry, Morgan Pulliam

This session will explore how multiracial college men experience different identity development pathways in fraternities across NIC, NPHC, NMGC, NAPA, and NALFO organizations. The presenters will share research from a national study of multiracial college men who are members of culturally-based and historically-white organizations. Participants experienced five distinct developmental pathways of hegemonic, fluidity, marginality, productive, and authentic. Implications include a nuanced conceptualization of how multiracial college men tether and negotiate their gender expression and multiple racial identities. These implications will help campus-based and inter/national organizations to better understand how multiracial men find belonging and guide their placemaking efforts.