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...Haley pioneered the concept. There are now 18 in the U.S., each with about 30 properties. Members pay an average $230,000 to join and $15,000 in annual dues, says Dick Ragatz, president of Ragatz Associates, a resort-industry consultant in Eugene, Ore. Some clubs are doubling their membership each year and have been unable to develop properties fast enough...
Exclusive Resorts, the largest destination club with 300 properties, dealt with availability issues by doubling its number of beachfront homes to 80, says Donn Davis, CEO of the Denver-based firm, which also started a member waiting list and added a budget membership level that gets no holiday bookings...
...University administrators who wanted to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups,” according to the foundation’s website.A quarter-century later, some of the ethnic mixing at Harvard is occurring within ethnic organizations themselves. For example, the current membership of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) actually looks a lot like the Color Blind Students Association that Lurie called for. The Native American group counts three board members with no American Indian ancestry.Students who choose to join organizations based on ethnicities other than their own do so for a variety of reasons...
...Campus political groups have already taken promising steps. When the Dems have focused on issue advocacy and real-world campaigns, it’s encouraged students beyond the traditional membership to get involved; Students for Marriage Equality, a collaborative effort between the Dems and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance last spring, brought members of both groups together to work to preserve marriage equality in Massachusetts. When the Institute of Politics, often criticized for a perceived lack of diversity, placed an additional emphasis on its policy program, students who hadn’t been interested in its other...
...That said, these are reasons to work for continued progress, not to rest on laurels; by considering the way their approach to politics affects the diversity of students who become involved in their organizations, political groups can build memberships whose foundations stretch beyond any particular demographic group. In doing so, they will achieve results that go far beyond the aesthetic: more diverse membership are stronger memberships, allowing members to learn more from each other, and allowing groups to tap abilities and reach minds in all corners of the campus...