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Clemson Model to Increase African American Male Teachers Expands to Universities Across the Country
A project to increase the number of African American men teaching in South Carolina elementary schools has grown well beyond its original aspirations.
Once an idea to place 200 African American men in the classroom, Call Me MISTER® (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) is up and running in Pennsylvania and Virginia, while Georgia, Florida and Missouri are deep into talks about licensing the program.
In Pennsylvania, Call Me MISTER is based at Cheney University. In Virginia, Longwood University is the program's home. Roy Jones, executive director of Call Me MISTER, is working to establish Call Me MISTER at Albany State University in Georgia, among a consortium of colleges in Missouri and with the Florida Minority Fund.
Even in South Carolina, the program has outgrown its original vision. While Call Me MISTER was based at Clemson from the beginning, the students were at three of the state's historically black colleges/universities. But Misters are now enrolled at Clemson, too, as well as at nine other institutions across the state.
Thirty are already in the classroom, including six master's candidates, and 150 are in the program statewide. When all of them graduate and accept teaching positions, half the African American men teaching elementary school in South Carolina will be Call Me MISTER alumni.
"In South Carolina, we're seeing the impact of the first Misters as children experience these men as teachers and role models," Jones says. "Across the country, we're planting the same seeds we put in South Carolina soil several years ago. For kids across the state—and now the country—more positive male role models will be an important part of their elementary education experience."
http://chronicle.com/campusviewpoint...son_mister.htm
A project to increase the number of African American men teaching in South Carolina elementary schools has grown well beyond its original aspirations.Once an idea to place 200 African American men in the classroom, Call Me MISTER® (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) is up and running in Pennsylvania and Virginia, while Georgia, Florida and Missouri are deep into talks about licensing the program.
In Pennsylvania, Call Me MISTER is based at Cheney University. In Virginia, Longwood University is the program's home. Roy Jones, executive director of Call Me MISTER, is working to establish Call Me MISTER at Albany State University in Georgia, among a consortium of colleges in Missouri and with the Florida Minority Fund.
Even in South Carolina, the program has outgrown its original vision. While Call Me MISTER was based at Clemson from the beginning, the students were at three of the state's historically black colleges/universities. But Misters are now enrolled at Clemson, too, as well as at nine other institutions across the state.
Thirty are already in the classroom, including six master's candidates, and 150 are in the program statewide. When all of them graduate and accept teaching positions, half the African American men teaching elementary school in South Carolina will be Call Me MISTER alumni.
"In South Carolina, we're seeing the impact of the first Misters as children experience these men as teachers and role models," Jones says. "Across the country, we're planting the same seeds we put in South Carolina soil several years ago. For kids across the state—and now the country—more positive male role models will be an important part of their elementary education experience."
http://chronicle.com/campusviewpoint...son_mister.htm
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