The benefits of study abroad are well documented, from increased confidence to an expanded worldview — and college students who study abroad are more likely to do better in school and graduate on time. But that experience is often unattainable for a particular group of students: men of color. Of the more than 300,000 U.S. undergraduates who study abroad each year, an overwhelming majority are white women. For students at the University of Washington, the Brotherhood Initiative wants to help level the field.
Category: BI in the News
BI Faculty Director delivers Samuel E. Kelly Lecture
BI Research Associate in the news
BI highlighted in Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Faculty Friday: Joe Lott
https://www.washington.edu/wholeu/2016/06/17/faculty-friday-joe-lott/
UW Today: New UW program aims to create ‘brotherhood’ for male students of color
Joe Lott, a UW associate professor of education, is spearheading the university’s new Brotherhood Initiative. Read more here.
EDU Talk: Why Should We Care about Young Men of Color?
In this five-minute EDU Talk, Professor Joe Lott describes his work building a network of men of color in the Puget Sound who will support young men from historically marginalized communities throughout their college experience.