1. Barbershop Series: new way for males to cut it up!
Franklin soares (He, Him, HIS)
PhD student
Louisiana state university
Hello to audience!
Thank everyone for attending my session
Question: What do you think are the percentages of Black, White, Latino, and Asian males who are graduating from college? According to Krogstad & Fry (2014), a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2012 were broken down as such: Whites-69%, Asians-11%, Black 9%, Hispanic-9%, Other 2%.

2. My experiences Growing up single-parent home
Family Dynamics-Religion, Black, poverty
Higher Education- Vermont, FIU, LSU, First Generation
Professional Experience-approximately 10 years experience at various institutions
Passions-Mental Health, Men and masculinities, Retention, Assessment and Evaluation, Involvement
Higher Education-Vermont I was the only Black male on the entire campus.
Professional experience-FIU, Morehouse College, Oregon State University, University of Central Florida, Louisiana State University
When I go to new area to work or go to school, two things I look for 1. Church 2. Barbershop.

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES
PARTICIPANTS WILL LISTEN DEEPLY AND HEAR PERSPECTIVES FROM one ANOTHER TO GAIN INSIGHT ON BEST PRACTICES TO DEVELOP AN ACTION PLAN TO ENSURE THEY CULTIVATE THE EXPERIENCES FOR COLLEGE MALES ON THEIR CAMPUS.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH CONCRETE STRATEGIES, AN UNDERSTANDING OF SHARED EXPERIENCES AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT MEN OF COLOR.
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO THINK ABOUT POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO SUPPORT COLLEGE MEN.

4. What you might see in the barbershop
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Question: What might you see at a barbershop?
Video 00:00-3:00 approximately

5. Historical perspective
Society Views on Men of Color
Weaknesses
Men Issues
Place for men to call “Safe Space” or “Brave Space”
Barbershop/Beauty Salon is a place where individuals can talk about anything and not be judged
People want to look good
Views-threatening, lazy, antisocial
Weakness-taught not to tell our problems, pray about it, etc.
Men’s issues-employment, relationships, mental health, income disparity, social barriers, criminal injustice

6. Theoretical framework
Dr. Strayhorn’s Sense of Belonging
Dr. Tinto’s retention model
Challenge and support
Schlossberg’s Theory of marginality and Mattering
Strayhorn’s Model-Belonging – with peers, in the classroom, or on campus – is a crucial part of the college experience. It can affect a student’s degree of academic achievement, or even whether they stay in school.
Tinto’s Model (1987)-academic preparation, academic engagement, social engagement, financing college, and demographic characteristics.
Schlossberg’s-focus on mattering, attention-person has interest of another, importance-others care about what you think, want, and do, ego-extension-others will be proud of your successes and failures, dependence-person can depend on someone else.

7. Barbershop program Community
Community: 500 Residents, Predominately Student Athletes
Local Barbers Came Out
Miracle In Love-Sex Prevention (condoms, literature, free testing, etc.)
Minimal Cost for Students
Largest Turnout of Athletes in approximately 18 months
Plan to do a few at LSU
Presented at UCF a couple of years ago and others are being executed at a couple of universities
From the presentation, the former Associate VP of Student Enrollment and Services wanted to make this a university-wide program. (provide resources, support, etc.)

8. Further implications
Work with involved student leaders on campus to recruit their uninvolved peers
Collect data (i.e. Campus Climate Assessment)
Hold Student Organization Leaders accountable for reaching out to underrepresented groups on campus
Provide resources (financial and advisory) for minority student organizations
Create and support groups, especially men (affinity groups)
Minority student orgs.-NSBE, NAACP, NPHC, PBM, Black Leadership Council, BSU etc.

9. Further implications Encourage and support consciousness programming
Work with men of color to seek leadership opportunities in student organizations
Host an annual campus kickoff for men
Reach out to parents during new student orientation
Form a coalition of collaborators and stakeholders who are interested in men initiatives
Consciousness programming-sex talk, how to be stopped by a police officer, mental health, what are your rights?
Men Empowerment Network at UCF, Black Male Leadership Initiative at LSU, OSU Black Advisory Council, etc.

10. Questions or comments

11. Graduate assistant, African American cultural center
Thank You!
Franklin Soares
PhD student
Graduate assistant, African American cultural center

12. References
Krogstad, J.M., & Fry, R. (2014). More Hispanics, blacks enrolling in college, but lag in bachelor’s degrees. Retrieved from tank/2014/04/24/more-hispanics-blacks-enrolling-in-college-but-lag-in-bachelors- degrees/.