Alabama recruitment fall-out

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

You did see one. The only one in 240 pictures of sisters on that Tumblr (I stopped counting after that point).

Thus my question:

What threshold of AA membership is considered "fully integrated" and sufficient to claim that a chapter is racially diverse?

Note: I never said I have any experience with this chapter. I advised at Towson, four years ago. I don't know the make up of recruitment at UMD, so you can stop trolling the UMD AOII FB page. How about you look at the AOII NAU page?

The difference in how these chapters handle race and how the chapters at Alabama handle race is that when qualified AA PNMs go through recruitment, they ALL get bids. At Alabama, NONE of them get bids. The chapters at UMD and Towson are examples of Strong recruiting chapters which I discussed earlier that are subject to the diversity of the formal recruiting mix. In my experience at Towson, the AA students typically did quite well in recruitment. These chapters could have more diversity, but they are not discriminatory.

The chapters I have worked with in AZ and CA are much more diverse and have a much greater opportunity through COB to approach and recruit women of other ethnicities that may not normally go through formal recruitment.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Note: I never said I have any experience with this chapter. I advised at Towson, four years ago. I don't know the make up of recruitment at UMD, so you can stop trolling the UMD AOII FB page. How about you look at the AOII NAU page?

Note: I didn't say you did. I didn't know what chapter you advised. I used MD and AZ because you mentioned these along with your general statement about the south:

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

In other parts of the country, my experience from advising in Maryland, AZ and CA is that chapters are NOT excluding women based on race.
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As a Southern alumna, I am embarrassed by the lack of diversity in the Southern chapters, but have been pleasantly surprised many times in the past few years when chapter pictures are displayed on FB from our smaller chapters in the South which show increasingly diverse groups which include African American women.

Here is what I actually said:

Just using those examples as you mentioned these states.