Texas Schools Join Forces in Bid to Help Minority Males - Higher Education

Texas Schools Join Forces in Bid to Help Minority Males - Higher Education: This summer marked the beginning of a collaborative initiative in Texas to link together several community colleges and four-year universities and a couple of school districts in the name of finding solutions to lagging graduation rates among Latino and African-American males. Headed by Dr. Victor Sáenz, associate professor of educational administration and executive director of Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color is supported by a three-year $335,000 grant and will serve as a platform for dialogue on the issue of college success among minority males.

“The consortium is serving as a professional networking community where all these institutions can come together, learn from each other and understand which strategies may be working with various populations from one end of the state to the other.