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Luis Posing while gearing up to go onto the UCSD Ropes Challenge Course
MMI Members posing at the challenge course
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MMI Member Oscar posing at the USS Midway

Minority Male Initiative

At Minority Male Initiative, we inspire and motivate students to see their potential in education as a lifelong career by aspiring towards their academic/educational goals. We do this through collaborative study halls, subject based help, career exploration trips, and much more. 


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    MMI Mondays

    Ever feel you just want to connect with other men on campus to talk about what's going on in class or in the community? Join other students, staff, faculty, and administrators. We meet the following Mondays from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. this Fall 2024.

    • October 7
    • October 21
    • November 4
    • November 18
    • Decemeber 2

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     MMI Mondays

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    MOCAN Conferences

    MMI attend the Men of Color Action Network Events (MOCAN). MOCAN is a network of 4-year and 2-year Colleges and University within the Southern California Region who have men of color programs. We come together to provide transfer and career ready opportunities and offer our men of color the chance to visit other college campuses and build thier professional network. 

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    Our Network

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    MMI Events

    MMI is a family who looks to bridge the gaps in attaining a higher education, together.

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    Upcoming Events

 

About MMI/MOCAN

Our instincts and experience informed us, our data and research confirmed it.  Minority male students were simply not achieving on par with all other students. This was not acceptable. Like other colleagues at other colleges, where and how do we start? We began by listening to our students’ voices. They trusted us to tell their stories and their personal experiences with multitudes of life setbacks. And then they told us what we needed to do to improve our success rates with such students: to reach out more to our students, make connections, provide more academic support to build upon their connections, teach them about themselves, and enhance support services. 

The Minority Male Initiative is designed to study, recommend, pilot, train, enlighten, share, and inspire our students, faculty, staff, and managers to address inequities in student success for a large segment of our student population. After all, it takes a village to get through higher education, so we do it together. 

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