Dyad Strategies Releases 2024 Whitepaper

Conventional wisdom has, for decades, assumed that the social culture at regional comprehensive universities was significantly less problematic than at Power 5 institutions. The data outlined in the 2024 Dyad Strategies whitepaper demonstrate that this is no longer the case. On nearly every measure of problematic social culture – socials status importance, alcohol consumption, social ...

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Andrea Skarbecki
Dyad Strategies Releases 2022 WHITEPAPER

Earlier today, Dyad Strategies announced the release of their 2022 WHITEPAPER. Entitled “The Impact of Recruitment Timing and Structure on Fraternity and Sorority Chapter Culture,” the 2022 whitepaper examines a number of data points connecting the timing and structure of recruitment processes to a number of chapter culture outcomes.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Dyad Strategies Announces Release of 2021 Whitepaper

Dyad Strategies announced the release of the 2021 Dyad Strategies Whitepaper. The whitepaper, entitled “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Fraternity Experience: Three Disturbing Trends,” highlights three disturbing findings from Dyad’s longitudinal assessment of college fraternities. The report was authored by Gentry McCreary, Joshua Schutts, and Logan Davis.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Dyad Strategies Announces Model Code of Student Organization Conduct

Today, Dyad Strategies announced the release of its Model Code of Student Organization Conduct. The Dyad Model Code is the first model code designed specifically for helping campuses navigate student organizational conduct, and it features a process designed to promote student self-governance, increase student safety, and build goodwill between campus administrators and student organization leaders, advisors and other stakeholders.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Danielle Marganoff Joins Dyad Strategies Research Team

Dyad Strategies CEO Dr. Gentry McCreary announced today that Danielle Marganoff has been named director of data management for the company, effective immediately. 

As director of data management, Danielle will be responsible for managing Dyad’s fast-growing longitudinal datasets, will support our clients in data mining and analysis projects, and will build and maintain our client data dashboards in Tableau. 

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Dyad Strategies Announces Partnership with Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity

Dyad Strategies announced today that the company has entered into a five-year partnership with Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. As part of this partnership, Dyad Strategies will conduct an annual assessment of the entire Lambda Chi Alpha membership. The goals of this assessment will be to help the fraternity better understand the culture of its undergraduate chapters and to better understand the impact that membership in Lambda Chi Alpha has on student learning, growth and development.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Dyad Strategies Announces Partnership with FarmHouse Fraternity

Dyad Strategies announced today that the company has entered into a five-year partnership with FarmHouse Fraternity. As part of this partnership, Dyad Strategies will conduct an annual assessment of the entire FarmHouse membership. The goals of this assessment will be to help the fraternity better understand the culture of its undergraduate chapters and to better understand the impact that membership in FarmHouse has on student learning, growth and development.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Research Behind Dyad Hazing Motivation Scale Published in Journal of Cognition & Culture

Today, an article by Dyad co-founders Gentry McCreary and Joshua Schutts was published in the Journal of Cognition and Culture. The JOCC provides an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the cultural foundations of mental life and features research from a wide range of disciplines, including experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology.

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Dyad Strategies Partnership with Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity

(Pensacola, FL) – Dyad Strategies announced today that the company has entered into a four-year partnership with Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity. As part of this partnership, Dyad Strategies will conduct an annual assessment of the entire Phi Sigma Kappa membership. The goals of this assessment will be to help Phi Sigma Kappa better understand the culture of its undergraduate chapters, to better understand the impact that membership in the Fraternity has on student learning, growth and development, and to better measure the long-term impact of the Fraternity’s new comprehensive brotherhood development program, to be launched this summer at their 67th General Convention & Shonk Undergraduate Leadership School.

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Dyad Strategies Announces Partnership with Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity

Dyad Strategies announced today that the company has entered into a four-year partnership with Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. As part of this partnership, Dyad Strategies will conduct an annual assessment of the entire Phi Gamma Delta membership. The goals of this assessment will be to help the fraternity better understand the culture of its undergraduate chapters and to better understand the impact that membership in the Phi Gamma Delta has on student learning, growth and development.

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Andrea Skarbecki
DYAD STRATEGIES ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH KAPPA ALPHA THETA

Dyad Strategies CEO Gentry McCreary announced today the formation of a new partnership between Dyad Strategies and Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity. In this partnership, Dyad Strategies will conduct a four-year longitudinal assessment of the entire Kappa Alpha Theta undergraduate membership, assisting the Fraternity in better understanding the impact of membership in Kappa Alpha Theta over time and the culture of Theta’s nearly 150 undergraduate chapters.

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Andrea Skarbecki
Dyad Seeking Pilot Campuses for Potential New Member Survey

The research team at Dyad Strategies is looking for campuses to pilot our Potential New Member Survey beginning in January 2019. This survey will feature our newest measure, the Motivation to Join Scale, as well as a number of other measures designed to measure student beliefs and attitudes around topics such as hyper-masculinity, openness to diversity, moral development, conformity and authenticity, as well as their prior experiences with hazing and alcohol and other drugs.

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Dyad Strategies Announces New Facilitation Team

Dyad Strategies announced today the creation of a new program facilitation team. This team will become a major component of Dyad’s programming arm, visiting client campuses and delivering data-driven student programs and workshops for campuses who complete the Dyad Campus Assessment , helping chapters and communities understand the strengths and weaknesses of their brother/sisterhood and chapter culture.

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Andrea Skarbecki
DYAD STRATEGIES PARTNERS WITH PREVENTION CULTURE TO PROVIDE ASSESSMENT-DRIVEN CULTURE CHANGE TO CAMPUS CLIENTS

Dyad Strategies CEO Gentry McCreary announced today the development of a formal partnership with Prevention Culture, a consulting and training firm led by Aaron Boe that focuses on sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, bystander strengths and social culture. The partnership between Dyad Strategies and Prevention Culture will allow campuses to utilize both Dyad Strategies powerful assessment tools in combination with Prevention Culture’s expert curriculum and customized consulting aimed at building healthier and safer campuses.  

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Andrea Skarbecki