I have consistently elaborated on the need for effective policies toward retention, completion, and student engagement anytime I am invited to present my last book “Community Colleges and Black Males.” It’s a scholarly research piece – A mixed method study of the impact of community college initiatives on black males at St. Philip’s College: an evaluation of retention, completion, and student engagement efforts
As a college don and workforce exponent, I have always challenged stakeholders of education to wake me up anytime for a dialogue on how to educate America, and I still have not backed down on that.
Black males continue to struggle when faced with the challenge of seeking a college education, lagging behind in college and university participation as compared to other gendered groups as well as their White and Asian counterparts. As with every promising Black male community college student, there are barriers to enrollment and completion. Despite these barriers, many Black males students make it to college. However, they often have difficulty remaining in the educational system long enough to complete their certificates and/or degrees. Although, there are many quality community college and university programs designed to increase the overall success of students “prior to” and “during” enrollment, regrettably, many colleges that facilitate outreach and retention efforts do little by way of accountability.
In this book, the statistical monitoring for evaluation purpose is mixed. Adequate records of how Black males are performing in and apart from college are important for educational institutions as they consider developing specialized programs for minority sub-group participation, engagement, and success. I used the mixed method approach to examine Black males’ perspectives versus institutional engagement strategies relative to participation, engagement, and successes that influence Black males Men on the Move program at St. Philip’s College. Moreover, the study will furthermore investigate outreach and retention efforts for Black males that were developed by the St. Philip’s College.
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Whereas this study used St. Philip’s College as am yardstick, results, implications and further discussions replicates the education landscape in the current system and would provide strategies and resources for student coaches, advisors, mentors and others I education business.
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