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Old 10-25-2018, 05:00 AM
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Does Joining a Fraternity or Sorority Actually Improve Grades and Earnings After Grad

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It’s a talking point at many fraternity and sorority recruitment tables, rush events, and chapter house tours: Recruiters for Greek student organizations say their members have higher GPAs compared with their non-Greek-life counterparts.
Promises of finding career success through connections is another talking point.

But the results of a study released this month are challenging such assurances. Written by two researchers from Miami University, the paper, “Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings,” found that Greek affiliation is correlated with lower grade-point averages.

The researchers also studied the starting salary of recent graduates through a postgraduation survey. They found that students who joined the Greek system in their second semester had 15-percent higher salaries than those who didn’t. But there was no evidence to support the contention that Greek affiliation was the cause of higher earnings, according to the report.

The study cited data from a survey distributed at an unnamed “large public university located in the midwestern United States.”

William E. Even, an economics professor at Miami University, spoke with The Chronicle on Tuesday about his findings, and whether they might disprove the theory that Greek-life organizations develop high-achieving leaders.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Do...nity-or/244890
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