My Brother’s Keeper: Black Male Success in Higher Education
In line with President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, this session will highlight research and practice that shed light on the factors that facilitate black males’ success in college. Researchers, practitioners, and students will discuss what family members, professors, college staff, peers, and students themselves can do to develop academic and character preeminence among black male college students.

Panelists
Shaun Harper, Exec. Director, Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Walter Allen, Director, CHOICES: Access, Diversity and Achievement in Higher Education, UCLA
Ivory Toldson, Deputy Director, White House Initiative on HBCUs
Arlethia Perry-Johnson, Director, University System of Georgia’s African American Male Initiative
Bryant Marks, Exec. Director, Morehouse Research Institute on the African American Male
Tim Spicer, Senior, Morehouse College

Moderator
David J. Johns, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans