TY  - CHAP
AB  - Community college African American male student enrollment and academic success is diminishing. The authors explore the importance and wisdom of mentoring programs for African American males attending community colleges. The chapter considers issues of student persistence and retention and how they relate to effective community college mentoring programs. Specifically, the authors discuss how community college mentoring programs can counteract inherent obstacles for African American students attending commuter style campuses. A description of how some community colleges successfully engage African American male students in order to achieve Kuh's four attributes of a supportive college environment and to overcome the issues of college departure -- being first-generation college students, lacking academic self-concept, no or minimal institutional engagement with students, and no or minimal student involvement student involvement on campus – is provided. The authors highlight successful community college programs which include the national “Students African American Brotherhood” program, Santa Fe College's “My Brother's Keeper,” the North Carolina Community College System, and Hillsborough Community College's Collegiate 100.
VL  - 6
SN  - 978-1-84855-899-1, 978-1-84855-898-4/1479-3644
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-3644(2009)0000006018
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3644(2009)0000006018
AU  - Ray Kenneth
AU  - Marion Carley Sylvia
AU  - Brown Derrick
ED  - Henry T. Frierson
ED  - Willie Pearson
ED  - James H. Wyche
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Power of mentoring African American males in community colleges
T2  - Black American Males in Higher Education: Diminishing Proportions
T3  - Diversity in Higher Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 271
EP  - 297
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -