How were the social identity groups determined and how will they evolve?
We did not determine the social identity groups (SIGs) that will exist in the new association. Instead, we drew upon some of the literature on social identity groups and proposed a framework grounded in this literature which could be used by an implementation team convened should consolidation be approved. We intentionally did not create a list of possible SIGs for the new association because doing so conflicted with the guiding principles we identified based upon the literature we reviewed. It would have been premature on the subcommittees part to prescribe which SIGs should exist in the new association. The concept of SIGs is grounded in the idea that these groups are socially constructed, contextual, fluid, dynamic and evolving in the historical, political, and social systems from which they emerge. Some of the SIGs that exist today in NASPA and ACPA were not in the social consciousness five or ten or 20 years ago in either organization, and we propose that there will be SIGs in the
