The QUEST: The Completion Project for Males of Color in Community Colleges

This webinar highlights the design, development, and delivery of a quality educational program for males of color using a zero-dollar budget. The facilitator reviews the various definitions of learning communities and describes why their implementation is imperative—to help males of color complete the associate of arts degree in one year. Learning outcomes for this webinar include:

  • Learn about a model process for increasing academic achievement for males of color.
  • Learn how to identify and recruit campus personnel for participation in a males of color program.
  • Recognize the need to reform how students learn and are taught in higher education.
  • Understand the role that academic affairs and student affairs educators, in partnership with faculty and students, can play in enhancing student learning in and out of the classroom.
  • Learn why collaborative partnerships are essential for program development.

The webinar facilitator is highly praised and respected for his savvy work with teacher education training programs; recruiting, educating, retaining, and graduating African-American males; and redesigning developmental education writing programs. Recently, he used a zero-dollar budget to operate a successful learning community (QUEST) that he designed and developed to help males of color earn an associate of arts degree in one year, while producing more than $13.5 million in FTEs.

Jà Hon Vance, Executive Vice President, Teaching and Learning, JV Educational Consultants