Mentoring Men of Color – On-Demand Training

Establish a Robust Network to Help Them Navigate Their Academic, Professional & Life Experiences

Seeking and identifying mentors can be a challenging effort and especially daunting when one feels lost in a community and is sincerely searching for someone to guide them through their experiences. For men of color, this feeling can be exacerbated.

Our presenter will address the challenges that your male students of color face daily, while offering ways to develop campus-wide strategies to increase their success through engagement and retention efforts both in and out of the classroom. You’ll explore the effects of current events and how they impact your men of color, as well as ways your institution can overcome those challenges to create a culturally competent and responsive community that values and supports their unique needs.

Establish a robust mentorship network that validates the experiences of your men of color and offers them the invaluable guidance they deserve to navigate their academic, social, professional and life experiences.  Empower your faculty and staff, who are instrumental in supporting men of color, to foster trust-driven relationships, collaboratively shaped and responsive to the shared experiences, identities, and interests of both mentors and mentees.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Establish a robust mentorship network that validates men of color and addresses the unique challenges men of color experience in higher education.
• Create institutional strategies and programs that make men of color feel valued, safe, and supported.
• Design diverse engagement strategies for mentorship targeting men of color.
• Facilitate critical conversations with key stakeholders on your campus to ensure your institution is truly responsive to the needs of your men of color and take intentional action to address and positively impact their experiences.
• Explore theoretical approaches to mentorship that will serve as a framework for your mentor-mentee relationships (peer to peer; staff/faculty).
• Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of different mentorship strategies for men of color.

Presenter

Dr. Detric Robinson, a proud native of Darlington, SC, currently holds the esteemed position of Director of Residential Education at the University of Denver (DU).
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