African American Males

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<p>Does anyone know of any colleges that are not only trying to attract more african american male students, but ones that also have programs or initiatives that are intended to improve graduation rates?</p>

<p>I came across an article that talked about such a program at OSU and was wondering if there were any others and how successful they seem to be. I was very disturbed when I read that on average, black males only make up 4.3% of students on campus and that's the same figure as in the mid 70's. I tried using the nces site to find the percentage of udergrad students that black males made up but ran into information overload.</p>

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<p>There are three (non HBCU) schools that I know of that are particularly interested in attracting black men and working with them to ensure their success and graduation </p>

<p>University of Georgia <a href=“http://www.usg.edu/aami/usg_aami_brochure.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usg.edu/aami/usg_aami_brochure.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Univerisity of Maryland [Home[/url</a>]</p>

<p>Hunter College of CUNY <a href=“http://www.usg.edu/aami/usg_aami_brochure.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usg.edu/aami/usg_aami_brochure.pdf](<a href=“http://theblackmaleinitiative.org/default.aspx]Home[/url”>http://theblackmaleinitiative.org/default.aspx)</a>
( I believe that some other CUNY campuses have similar efforts) </p>

<p>Interestingly all of these are public schools, as is OSU. I suspect many private schools are relatively more selective, so a lot of this “work” toward making sure the brothers stay and graduate has alaready been done on the front end, so to speak, rather than after they young men are enrolled. But maybe someone else has some thoughts onthis.</p>

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<p>The University of Virginia has programs targeted towards black males, and african american students in general. It has the highest graduation rate of african american students of any public university in the United States.</p>

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<p>“black males only make up 4.3% of students on campus”</p>

<p>That would be a HUGE number in California… and what is this magnifying glass I’m seeing?</p>

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<p>Many big unis are trying their hardest to attract african americans(or simply americans) to their mainstream.The reason why there are so few of them in the institutions of higher learning is because many of them, despite their sharp minds,do not reach the varsity level.However ,those who do are in a constant high demand.I have a lady friend from kenya who was admitted to the MIT(she had impressive grades though,and the kenyan syllabus is strictly british based,and the second hardest in the world).If you have strong grades,and you look polished,I don’t need to wish you luck.</p>

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<p>In Cornell, the current freshman class is 175 people out of around 3000. so, a bit over 5% black. I would venture to say that since nationally on average there are more women in college than men the amount of black males is probably 2% of that little over 5% in the freshman class. However, given that they are a private school and tend to give better aid the attendance is usually higher. (classes before mine show this). Well really colleges want men of color (color being not asian) in general at their schools, because they are clearly the worst represented group in college in the nation. (Aside from native americans, of course.)</p>

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<p>“If you have strong grades,and you look polished,I don’t need to wish you luck.”</p>

<p>Actually, you do. D was accepted to MIT in the early round, but she’s only going if we can afford it. In this country, it’s smarts *and *cash that gets you to a good college and keeps you there.</p>

<p>I think I read something a few months ago where they mentioned that one of the causes of higher college drop-out rates among African-Americans was related to the financial burden of attending college. Some families simply can’t afford not having a wage earner for the full four years, others (who were not Pell grant eligible), cannot afford the tuition and fees. This is obviously a danger for all kids attending college, but it seems to be a particular concern in the African-American community.</p>

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<p>dignified1, you are so right. Based on the calculator we don’t get FA and few schools give merit aid, and even when they do the $amount is rather low. We asked S to target schools that were known for giving merit but so far other than the NAF guaranteed schools the best merit offer was 20K/yr from a school that costs $50K. I just don’t see how any school is worth that kind of $$ when these kids will have to go to grad school.</p>

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<p>When I read this, I thought of an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about black students and loan debt: [Black</a> Graduates Owe More Debt Than White, Asian, or Hispanic Graduates - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Black-Graduates-Owe-More-Debt/65253/]Black”>http://chronicle.com/article/Black-Graduates-Owe-More-Debt/65253/)</p>

<p>I don’t know if that link works for everyone, so here are some excerpts:

You’re very right about it being a particular concern for this community. (As an aside, some commenters on the article discussed how higher black attendance at for-profit universities could have something to do with that.)</p>

<p>Sorry for derailing the thread - I don’t know of any UC system initiatives for black students, though some campuses are looking to start a holistic-style application review (as opposed to mostly point-based systems at some campuses). I initially read that as some way of getting around Prop. 209 from a while back, which stopped UCs from explicitly considering applicants’ race/sex.</p>