African-American student success initiative at CSM to improve graduation rates -- SoMdNews.com: Student success initiative at CSM
A newly launched male leadership and mentoring initiative, the Men of Excellence Mentoring Program, is working to improve retention, graduation and transfer rates for young African-American men who enter the College of Southern Maryland as first-time, full- or part-time students.
The Men of Excellence is a cohort-based model designed to accept students annually and to work with students to ensure they persist each semester until they transfer or graduate from CSM with an associate degree, certificate or letter of recognition, according to a news release from the college.
For the upcoming academic year, the program begins with the Men of Excellence Summer Academy that will be held Aug. 4 to 14.
