Reaching Black Men
When Walter M. Kimbrough became president of Philander Smith College, a historically black, private institution in Arkansas, he was dismayed by the graduation rates. “Just looking at all the data on our campus and the low rate of graduation for black men on the campus it was in the teens I asked people, 'What are we doing about this?' ” he says. Philander Smith in 2007 launched its Black Male Initiative, a low-budget but institution-wide, presidential-level program aimed at personally reaching the black men on campus. Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education, July 14, 2009