Not Four Years But for Life? a Sequential Explanatory Study of Fraternal Chapter Advisors' Perceptions of Hazing

Date of Award

8-1-2024

Degree Name

Ed.D. in Leadership for Organizations

Department

Department of Educational Administration

Advisor/Chair

Meredith Wronowski

Abstract

This study examines the hazing motivations and anti-hazing training needs of fraternal chapter advisors at two, large, public institutions in the Midwest of the United States. Research has found that when hazing is happening with undergraduates, advisors and coaches are in the room over 40% of the time (Allan & Madden, 2008) and a new state law in Ohio, Collin’s Law, requires all volunteers working with student groups to go through anti-hazing education. A mixed method, sequential explanatory study design was used to first determine the hazing motivations of chapter advisors by governing council. After the hazing motivations were identified, chapter advisors participated in individual interviews to expand on the survey results and provide context for what they wanted to see for anti-hazing education. From the study, statistically significant differences in instrumental education and hazing severity were determined between chapter advisors by council, and four themes for anti-hazing training emerged which were low-level hazing examples, university policies and procedures related to the conduct process, advisor responsibility and liability in reporting, and resource sharing to better educate their undergraduate chapters. The unique hazing motivations by the governing council coupled with the themes that developed were used to create an action plan for an anti-hazing training specifically for fraternal chapter advisors in compliance with Collin’s Law.

Keywords

fraternity; sorority; anti-hazing education; hazing; chapter advisors; Collin's Law

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