California State University Channel Islands, CA

Mentees:

• Central State University, OH
• Southern Connecticut State University, CT
• Adams State University, CO

Los Medanos College, CA

Mentees:

• Arizona Western College , AZ
• Community College of Aurora, CO
• Yakima Valley College, WA

Rutgers University – Newark, NJ

Mentees:

• Kentucky State University, KY
• Northeastern Illinois State University, IL
• Texas Southern University, TX

San Jacinto College – TX

Mentees:

• Edmonds Community College, WA
• Monroe Community College, NY
• Salt Lake Community College, UT

Santa Fe College, FL

Mentees:

• Coconino Community College, AZ
• El Paso Community College, TX
• Thomas Nelson Community College, VA

University of South Florida, FL

Mentees:

• University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
• New Mexico State University, NM
• Augusta University, GA

Winston-Salem State University, NC

Mentees:

• Savannah State University, GA
• University of Michigan – Flint, MI
• Langston University, OK

In the spring of 2017, staff from mentee colleges and universities visited their mentor institutions to start the process of understanding how the mentor institutions were able to manage their long journey of institutional transformation that resulted in better success for their Black, Latino and/or American Indian students. In addition, NCHEMS staff coordinated periodic conference calls between the staff members of mentor institutions and their mentees as they set their goals and implemented their action plans for the project. Mentor institutions were available for consultations with their mentees as their plans to change their campuses’ cultures were implemented. Over the course of the first year of the project, case studies were developed of the mentor institutions activities that resulted in increased success for targeted students. In Spring 2018, the mentor and mentee institutions were featured in webinars for the general higher education community.

The mentee institutions committed to undertake a guided quest to shift the culture of their campuses in ways that have shown to be successful in increasing the success rates of Black, Latino and/or American Indian students. Each mentee institution was matched to a mentor institution that shared many of the same characteristics (e.g. type of institution, rural/urban, size, student population).

Staff at each mentee institution worked with its mentor’s staff to help start the process of campus culture change. Mentee institutions were asked to report on their activities and progress plus disseminate a survey at the beginning and end of the award period.