1. My Sister’s Keeper: The Need for Persistence and Retention Mentoring Programs for Underrepresented Undergraduate Black Women
Dr. Tasha Davis, Governors State University
Monday, March 13, 2017 Convention Center, ROOM# 215

2. Research Question
Are Undergraduate Black Women Receiving the Necessary Resources to Persist Through Institutions of Higher Education and Graduate?

3. Undergraduate Enrollments by Race and Gender

4. Underrepresented Undergraduate Black Women
First Generation
Low Income
Single Mother

5. Frameworks Used Black Feminist Thought (1990, 2000)
Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Epistemology (2012)
Critical Race Feminism
Adrien Katherine Wing (1997,2003)

6. Intersectionality/INCLUSION
Intersection of Race, Gender, Class, Culture
Kimberle’ Crenshaw: My Sisters Keeper
Diversity
Inclusion

7. Themes Emerged from the Literature
Need for Mentoring (Moses, 1998;Henry, 2008; Evans 2008; Bartman, 2015)
Culture of Hip Hop-multiple marginalized identities
Racial Climate on Campus
Lack of Critical Mass
Lack of Black faculty
Gender Gap
The dating relationships between the Black male and female
Need for a Black Female Pedagogy (hooks, 1994; Berry, 2010; Richardson, 2013)

8. Issues that Affect Persistence
The New Direction of Student Services: Glancing Back, Looking Forward (Whitt & Schuh, 2015)
Call Out to Leaders in Higher Education Administration
Need for Change
Implementation of New Diverse Programs
Student Affairs Allocation of Funds
History on Retention and Persistence (Tinto, 2007)
Lack of data collected to address the needs of these students

9. Methodology Five Stage Integrative Review of Literature
Iterative Process
Comprehensive Pearl Growing
Critical Interpretive Synthesis Methodology
Thematic synthesis
Meta Ethnography
Grounded Theory
43 published scholars made the inclusion list on my review of literature
40/43
Recommended Mentoring (14 out of 43 Scholars)
Recommended an Engaged Pedagogy (26 out of 43 scholars)
Data Collected on Three Four-Year Public Universities in Illinois to test the hypothesis

10. Methodology Five Stage Integrative Review of Literature
Iterative Process
Comprehensive Pearl Growing
Critical Interpretive Synthesis Methodology
Thematic synthesis
Meta Ethnography
Grounded Theory
43 published scholars made the inclusion list on my review of literature
Recommended Mentoring (14 out of 43 Scholars)
Recommended an Engaged Pedagogy (26 out of 43 scholars)
40/43
Data Collected on Three Four-Year Public Universities in Illinois to test the hypothesis

11. Future Implications My Sister’s Keeper Mentoring Initiatives
A Critical Black Female Street Pedagogy
4 Mentoring Models (Davis Long, 2016)
Peer Mentoring (Henderson, Hildreth, & Hunter, 2010)
Cross-Cultural Mentoring (Bartman, 2015)
“Sister Circles” Mentoring (Henry, 2008)
Networking through Mentoring Model (Moses, 1989)
Advocate for an engaged pedagogy from a Critical Race Feminist perspective. bell hooks,1994; Theodora Berry, 2010; Elaine Richardson, 2013)
Critical Pedagogy (Aliakbari & Faraji, 2011)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1970 )
Street Pedagogy(Zambrana-Ortiz, 2011)
A Critical Black Female Street Pedagogy (Davis-Long, 2016)

12. A Critical Black Female Street Pedagogy

13. Cross-Cultural Mentoring Model

14. Peer Mentoring Model

15. Sister Circles Mentoring Model

16. Networking Through Mentoring Model

17. Conclusion
My research will use the 2020 deadline set by the White House as the recommended timeframe for institutions to make changes through the implementation of “My Sisters Keeper” mentoring initiatives.
Using A Critical Black Female Street Pedagogy to their assess needs
Institutions of higher education leaders and Black underrepresented undergraduate women will implement “My Sisters Keeper” (a Black female mentoring initiative) as an exclusive mentoring program that centers the lives of Black women,
MSK initiatives should be implemented to help overcome inclusion and diversity issues, persistence and retention issues, increase graduation rates at U.S. institutions of higher education as a whole.

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