This chapter provides an introduction to fraternity and sorority recruitment and socialization practices across various councils and discusses how power, privilege, and oppression shape recruitment as an inequitable practice.

This chapter describes how institutions can best use data from the Campus Pride Index, focusing on student recruitment and resource/policy advocacy for LGBTQ constituencies.

Examines the issues that can affect the recruitment and admission of students with disabilities into postsecondary education. Provides suggestions to student affairs professionals for ensuring their active participation in the recruitment and admission process. (Contains 27 references.) (GCP)

Reviews literature on the relationship between student aid, college choice, and students' ability to continue their enrollment. Suggests colleges must invent their own financial resources to remain competitive. Discusses the problem of some students having to be periodic consumers (attending when they can afford it). Describes how an understanding…

Discusses how metropolitan universities pose unique challenges and opportunities for student affairs professionals. Describes how student characteristics reflect the diversity of the surrounding population; explores enrollment patterns, sources of college funding, recruitment and retention, campus environment, international students, student…

Explores the period between the end of high school and the beginning of college. Focuses on transition programs for undergraduate students of traditional age with disabilities and examines legislative impetus; state activities; model transition programs; transition results; and implications for campus student services staff, such as campus…

Explores the potential of partnerships to increase the influence and effectiveness of student services. Outlines effective internal partnerships, such as those involving advising and marketing, and productive external partnerships, such as those involving businesses and recruitment. Argues that partnerships work when they are part of an overall…

This chapter describes nine of this volume's themes and offers summary recommendations stemming from those themes.

Adult learners, long the stepchildren of colleges and universities, have nearly become the norm, and they spend billions of dollars each year on education. This chapter takes a customer-oriented approach to recruiting and retaining adult students in higher education. (GCP)

States that if Greek-letter organizations are to be effective learning communities, they must meet the challenges associated with recruiting and retaining members of underrepresented populations, as well as educating all members about diversity issues. Includes a list of questions that provide a framework for self-assessment by Greek-letter…

Examines student affairs professionals' areas of practice in which legal risk-management and ethical practice frequently clash. Offers a series of recommendations to maximize ethical practice while minimizing risks. Provides a framework for further discussion and reflection. (MKA)

This chapter reviews the current theoretical understanding of the development of social justice attitudes and related concepts.