For the past year and half, City College faculty and staff have met to discuss general student needs, with a focus on black and Chicano/Latino males. The discussions resulted in a recent workshop to increase awareness and understanding of some of the issues facing these vulnerable groups of students as well as strategize on methods to retain more black and Latino/Chicano male students.
“The numbers show that they [black and Chicano/Latino males] are not being successful,” said City College counselor Shannon Culmo. “We need to do something to retain them, to provide more access for them and to provide them with a situation where they can be more successful.”
The workshop, titled “The Academic Success and Retention of African-American & Chicano/Latino Male Students,” was sponsored by the Staff Resource Center Oct. 21 in the Student Center.
The workshop was divided into two parts, focusing on black and Chicano/Latino males, respectively.
Dr. Shalamon Duke, dean of Counseling and Special Programs at Coastline Community College, and Dr. Mark Robinson, vice chancellor of Student Development at City College of San Francisco, discussed the importance of reaching out and connecting with black male students consistently, beginning in high school through successful completion at the community college level. Robinson’s presentation focused heavily on technology as a way to reach out to black male students.
“We’re involved in technology. We’re involved in MySpace and Facebook at an alarming rate! That’s one of the ways that we are learning to communicate not only with each other, but with the rest of the world,” Robinson said. “From a community college and a higher education perspective, we all need to start looking at the ways students want to be taught, how they want to learn and they interact. On average, a student will spend more time reading Facebook pages and e-mails than they will textbooks in a semester.”
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Martin Ramirez, a motivational speaker and teacher at Luther Burbank High School, and Sammy Nunez, executive director of Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, discussed the importance of cultural identity and self-awareness as a way of increasing the retention and success of Latino/Chicano male students.
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Many of the faculty and staff personally thanked the speakers for coming to share their experiences in the work they do.
“It was great! I thought the presenters were dynamic! They knew their topics… They were resourceful. They had ideas on things we could do and tools we could utilize,” Culmo said.
Ramirez said that he hoped faculty and staff in attendance would take something they learned, go practice it and become active agents of change, “because without action there is no change.”
