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Black High School Students attending College What can it mean to

Black High School Students attending College What can it mean to The Memphis Metropolitan Area? PRESENTER : JUAN GORDON, Sr. and Darrell Harrington. Ten Good Men, LLC HBCU High School to Forum. 1 . Families are successful. 2. Communities ultimately Benefit.

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Black High School Students attending College What can it mean to

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  1. Black High School Students attending College What can it mean to The Memphis Metropolitan Area? PRESENTER: JUAN GORDON, Sr. and Darrell Harrington

  2. Ten Good Men, LLCHBCU High School to Forum 1. Families are successful 2.Communities ultimately Benefit Ten Men One Mission

  3. Vision Enriching the community by providing safe, comfortable, and affordable homes while strengthening families, ensuring children attain higher education and combating poverty!

  4. CHALLENGES • How can you Help? • What does it take for students to attend HBCU • Colleges and Universities? • Role of the Community? • Financial burdens? • Who is being impacted by black students not going to College? What are your feelings about our children and educational achievement?

  5. National Statistics on High School Graduates • 3 out of 10 Students – Nationally do not • Graduate • In 1966 – The Graduation rate was 66 percent • In 2008 – The Graduation rate grew to @ 69 • percent • School District rates Nationally are steadily • rising TIME

  6. National Variations in Statistical Data on High School Graduates • Black Students have a current rate of • approximately 50 to 65 percent • The gap between whites and black • range between 11 to 12 percent Some HBCU’s such as Alcorn State University is now focusing resources on Freshman so that retention rates can continue to grow.

  7. Number one Statistic that should concern all of the Memphis Communities is:

  8. Who is concerned about Fatherhood Community Organizations Government Ten Good Men, LLC

  9. Sources of Social Intelligence Government Competition Economic/ (How Organizations make an impact Demographic Program Design Cultural/ Social adjustment Technological

  10. Information Sources Decision Support Systems • Data organized does not mean anything if the we do make an impact in our communities. It must be presented and placed into a marketable format. • Create a concern among Memphis Citizens • Host forums (Banquets/Plays/other events) • Store and maintain the ability to retrieved data via • Intranets • Extranets Program Design • Design a program around data collected (Funding organizations have a slight bias towards grass roots designed plans) • Focused on events, trends in the environment, needs of the community, collaborations, creating new partnerships, designing and implementing, plans.

  11. Business Plans Drives Business Research Organizational Mission Organizational Goals Business Strategies Business Decisions

  12. Hierarchy in the Organization Visionaries Standardized Decision Makers Planning for the Future of our Communities Intuitive Decision Makers

  13. Hierarchy moving forward Visionaries Having a Vision Planning for the future of our Fraternity

  14. Implementation of Vision Achieving our Goals Visionaries Having a vision Planning for the future of our Fraternity

  15. Information Value Chain Data Collection/ What information is out there Funding Sources Planning Decisions that support Plans Community Acceptance /Implementation Designing A Successful Model

  16. CHALLENGES • Former relationships among Community organizations • and other proposed supporters • Keep the focus on the students in a friendly • environment 3. Learn to forgive each other and move on 4. How to manage financial burdens "When you want what you've never had, you must be willing to do what you've never done."

  17. Lessons we hope to influence in the Black CommunityLesson 1: What is a Healthy Community?Lesson 2: The 3 C’s of our HBCU Program We would like to improve Communication, Commitment, and Connection as the basis for a stronger educated community.

  18. Keys to a Successful Event? • Cash or in-kind contributions to assist in our Goals • Contributions of goods and services, volunteer time, or donated space DRIVING FORCES

  19. DEFINITION OF RESOURCES FINANCIAL Being able to purchase the goods and services of that class and sustain it. EMOTIONAL Being able to choose and control emotional responses, particularly to negative situations, without engaging in self-destructive behavior. Shows itself through choices. MENTAL Having the mental abilities and acquired skills (reading, writing, computing) to deal with daily life. SPIRITUAL Believing in (divine) purpose and guidance.

  20. DEFINITION OF RESOURCES PHYSICAL Having physical health and mobility. SUPPORT SYSTEMS Having friends, family, and backup resources available to access in times of need. These are external resources. RELATIONSHIPS/ROLE MODELS Having frequent access to adult(s) who are appropriate, nurturing, and who do not engage in destructive behavior. KNOWLEDGE OF HIDDEN RULES Knowing the unspoken cues and habits of a group.

  21. HBCU Environment

  22. GRADUATION RATE PERCENTAGES BY ETHNICITY • The national graduation rate for the class of 2008 was 71%. • For white students the graduation rate was 78%. • For African-American students nationwide the graduation rate for the class of 1998 was 56%. • For Latino students nationwide the graduation rate was 54%.

  23. GRADUATION RATES BY ETHNICITY

  24. Where we are and where do want to go?

  25. IMPORTANCE OF A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION

  26. Overview of where we are: • Define a program model • Implement activities of interest in your local community • Utilize the Internet • Seek funding • Evaluate program

  27. and the Community To ensure Success WHERE DOES Furthering Education BEGIN Educational Advancement STARTS WHEN ALL people REALIZE THAT IT TAKES Commitment

  28. Educating our students is a sledgehammer that obliterates every societal difference. • J. Gordon, Sr.

  29. Thanks for your TIMEIf TGM LLC., does nothing else by attempting to organize the HBCU Forum, we want each of you to remember it is not about you or me it is all about the Children.Address: Website:TGM LLC www.tengoodmen.orgP.O. Box 750723Memphis, TN 38175Phone:1-866-753-5582 ext. *8667

  30. RESOURCES 1. High School Graduation Rates in the United States REVISED APRIL 2002 from findings in the November 2001 report by Jay P. Greene, Ph. D.Senior Fellow and Research Associate, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research with a foreword by Kaleem Caire, President and CEO Black Alliance for Educational Options 2. Most enrollment and diploma numbers were obtained from the Common Core Data (CCD) from the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education.

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