Dr. Victor Saenz Associate Professor & Executive Director Dr. Luis Ponjuan Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Dr. Enrique Romo Director, Project

2014 TEXAS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM FOR MALE STUDENTS OF COLOR 1

Dr. Victor SaenzAssociate Professor & Executive Director

Dr. Luis PonjuanAssociate Professor, Texas A&M University

Dr. Enrique RomoDirector, Project MALES & TECMSC

Deep in the Heart of Texas: A Critical Discussion of Promising New Strategies that Address

the Growing Educational Imperative of the Black and Latino Male Achievement Gap


The Texas Consortium Team

Staff:Sarah Rodriguez, Research CoordinatorMike Gutierrez, Site CoordinatorDr. Enrique Romo, DirectorDr. Victor Saenz, Exec. DirectorJose Del Real, Site CoordinatorJorge Segovia, Site Coordinator,Guillermo Martinez, Research AssociateClaudia Garcia Louis, Research AssociateDr. Luis Ponjuan, TAMU, External EvaluatorLeticia Palomin, TAMU, Research Associate


SponsorsTexas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color


Understanding the CRISIS facing Males of Color in Education

• Many are unaware of the depth of the gender gap; It’s a SILENT CRISIS

Stealth Issue

• Some are unwilling to discuss; some find it counter-productive

• Gender Equity Debate Persists!• Not a Zero Sum Context

Skeptics & Naysayers

• Elementary Education/High-Stakes• Over-representation in Special Education & School

Discipline Pipeline• Teaching Ranks & Disparate Learning Styles

What is Happening to

our Boys?


National Context:African American Young Men & Women After High School

Source: The College Board, The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress, 2011.https://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/research-landscape


National Context:Latino/Hispanic Young Men & Women After High School

Source: The College Board, The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress, 2011.https://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/research-landscape


National Context:Percentage in Two-Year or Two-Year College/Vocational

Source: The College Board, The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress, 2011.https://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/research-landscape/postsecondary-pathways


National Context:Associate’s Degrees Awarded by Gender & Race/Ethnicity(2010-2011)

Source: NCES, 2012http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/2012menu_tables.asp (tables 326 & 327)

Black Latino0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

70000

80000

90000

100000

MaleFemale


National Context:Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded by Gender & Race/Ethnicity

Source: The College Board, The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress, 2011.https://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/research-landscape/higher-education


The Texas

Context

Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2012 report titled “A New Measure ofEducational Success in Texas”, Houston Endowment.

100

36.5

8.9

Latino Male 8th Graders (1996-98)

100

40.9

7.7

Black Male 8th Graders (1996-98)

100

47.9

16.1

All Male 8th Graders (1996-98)

Starting cohort

Enrolled in Postsecondary Ed.within 11 years

Earned a HE credentialwithin 11 years


Male “Crisis”

“Endangered” Species

Culturally “damaged”

“missing” or “vanishing” males

Need to be saved

Deviant behavior

Modify behavior toward “respectability”

Pathology of Black/Latino males

Framing (or “narrating”) the Experiences of Black/Latino Males in Education

Deficit Narratives


Our Response…


In Texas and across the country, Hispanic and African American male students are struggling along their educational pathways relative to their peers.

These populations of students are struggling to keep pace at key transition points along the education pipeline – at high school graduation, at college entry, and at college completion.

Recent revision of Texas’ Closing the Gaps plan issued by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB, 2010) urged that the improvement of college participation and success rates for Hispanic and African American males should be a statewide policy imperative

Requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach by key stakeholders across the education continuum (P-20); alignment of metrics for success; development of a learning or knowledge community

The Rationale:Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color


The Texas Consortium institutional members

* New members

FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS

• University of Texas• Texas State University• University of North Texas• University of Texas San

Antonio• Prairie View A&M

University*

TWO-YEAR INSTITUTIONS

• El Paso CC District• Austin Community

College District• Palo Alto College• San Antonio College• Northeast Lakeview

College• South Texas College• Tarrant County College

District• Lone Star College District

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS

• La Joya ISD• Austin ISD• El Paso ISD*

2014 TEXAS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM FOR MALE STUDENTS OF COLOR

Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color (the “Consortium”)

Purpose

• To cultivate a state-wide network of K-12 and higher education institutions and practitioners

• To collaborate, share expertise, advance research, and leverage resources in a coordinated effort to make a collective impact on the state of Texas’ imperative to improve male student success (K-16)

Goal

• Use the strategy of collective impact to align existing programmatic efforts and stimulate new capacity-building initiatives that will enhance the educational attainment of Hispanic and African American males

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Consortium Objectives

Objective 1Create & Grow the

Consortium

Objective 2Convene Biannual

Consortium Meetings & Annual Male Student Leadership Summit

Objective 3 Incubate Research-Based Male Focused Programs

or Initiatives

Objective 4 Disseminate Findings

through Resource Center & Tool-Kit


Consortium: Long-term Vision

• Male-focused Programs and PartnershipsInstitutionalization

• Across educational sectors (K-12 & HE)Effective collaboration

• Develop a long-term Consortium learning communitySustainability

• Consortium members as models of best practiceLeadership

• Evidence-based, multi-level, viable solutions Policy Development

• Moving the needle on minority male academic success in TexasEvidence of Impact


Purpose of male students of color programming

A focus on male students educational experiences

• Orientation/Transition program• Summer bridge program• Persistence/enrollment management program• Student group led program• Mentoring program• Single sex middle schools


Infrastructure needed to support these programs

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Student affairs• Academic affairs• Central school

districts• Full and part time

leadership

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

• Student activities fees

• Federal grants• Administration

funds


Texas Consortium in Action: We’ve Been Busy!

INSTITUTIONAL VISITSDate

South Texas College & La Joya ISD July/November ’13University of Texas San Antonio August ’13TG Grantee Meeting

September ’13Austin Community CollegeTarrant County Community CollegeTexas State University October ’13Austin ISD December ’13El Paso Community College & El Paso ISDPalo Alto College January ’14Prairie View A&M University

PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES

UTSA Texas Higher Education Symposium August ’13CSU Fullerton (Latino Summit) September ’13African American Student Achievement & Success Symposium (Houston)

October ’13Meeting with TG Board member (College Station)Grantmakers for Education, conference (Houston)CCCSE Kresge Institute, Men of Color (San Antonio)

November ’13Puente Fall Institute (Austin)Assoc. for Study of Higher Education (St. Louis)EPCC Foundation Meeting December ’13The White House January ’14UTSA Mentoring Summit (award)TACHE Conference February ‘14TABPHE Conference March ‘14

Sponsored by: Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color, The University of Texas at Austin, The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Greater Texas Foundation, & TG.For more information please contact Dr. Enrique Romo at [email protected].

Save the Date!

UT-Austin Male Student Leadership SummitJune 27 & 28, 2014Student Activities Center

The University of Texas at Austin

mailto:[email protected]


Enrique Romo, Ph.D.Director, Project MALES & TECMSC

[email protected]

Thank you

mailto:[email protected]

Documents

Dr. Victor Saenz Associate Professor & Executive Director Dr. Luis Ponjuan Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Dr. Enrique Romo Director, Project