Impact
These are
challenging times.
Our students rise.
Attacks on equity, inclusion, and diversity work make A²MEND even more urgent. With your help, students in A²MEND will continue to achieve academic success.
Students awarded learning-abroad scholarships to travel to Africa since 2018
Awarded in scholarships to Black male students
A²MEND Student Charters across four states
Student Success
01 / 03A²MEND students outperform
the statewide benchmark.
Annual Course Success
Annual Course Retention
Associate Degree Density
Transfer Degree Density
A²MEND students are measured against the statewide comparison group on the same four metrics. The widest gap is associate degree density — 16.1 points above the statewide rate. Source: A²MEND institutional research, reported to the Executive Board.
For Funders & Partners
02 / 03Annual Report
Scholarship dollars awarded, charters chartered, students served, institutional commitments secured.
Download →I/02Research & Publications
Scholarship from the A²MEND network on Black male student success.
Read →I/03In the News
PBS NewsHour, Roland Martin Unfiltered, and the $1.1M state allocation for Black male student success.
See coverage →I/04Our Supporters
The institutions, foundations and partners funding this work.
View →Milestones
03 / 03What twenty years
actually built.
UC Berkeley became the first university to establish an A²MEND charter. The network expanded into Washington at Green River College. The State of California allocated $1.1 million toward Black male enrollment in the community college system.
Three hundred educators travelled to Ghana for the second biennial All African Diaspora Educators Summit. Board members were named presidents of Los Angeles City College and Cypress College.
Impact
Twenty years,
measured.
A²MEND publishes an annual report documenting scholarship dollars awarded, charters chartered, students served across high schools, community colleges and universities, and institutional commitments secured.