Keynote Speaker: Mr. Trabian Shorters, VP,
Communities Program, The John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation
SAAB
National Headquarters offers
empowering national conferences that incorporate powerful messages of
success to young men
throughout the U.S. We
invite you to join us for powerful speakers and presenters who
enlighten like minded young men,
professionals, community activists and scholars striving to make a
difference in the lives of men in the community.
Black, Brown &
College Bound: Meeting the Challenge of
Higher Education - “And Still We Rise:
Turning Hurdles into Triumphs for
African American and Latino Males"
Dr. Bledsoe will be
presenting for this Annual Summit hosted by
Hillsborough Community College February 29 -
March 3, 2012 to be held at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel in Tampa Bay, Florida. Please visit
the
BBCB website
for more info.
The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys
of Color hosts their 6th Annual
Gathering of Leaders entitled "Great
Schools Are Not an Accident: Successful
Learning Communities for Boys and Young
Men of Color" April 26 - 28, 2012 •
North Carolina Central University •
Durham, North Carolina. Visit their
website to learn more and register:
http://www.coseboc.org
The John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation funds a
recent
SAAB Initiative to
increase high school graduation rates and
college access for at least 90 African American
male students by extending the Student African
American Brotherhood's network to high schools
in Akron, Macon, and Miami. Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe added "SAAB is extremely pleased to
partner with the Knight Foundation on this very
important initiative addressing issues impacting
young males of color around the country."
Student African
American Brotherhood (SAAB)increases the number of
African American and Latino men who graduate from college by
creating a positive peer community based on a spirit of caring.
SAAB was
founded in 1990 and has grown to more than 200
chapters across college and university campuses;
middle and high schools in more than 39 states in the U.S.
SAAB operates through student chapters
across the nation where young men of color enjoy
the privilege of social,
cultural and spiritual enrichment.
SAAB celebrates
twenty one years of dedicated
service to student populations, as we continue to grow,
we strive to create
relevant experiences for males of color who
achieve their dreams in higher
education.
As Student African
American Brotherhood
celebrates its 21st
Anniversary, lease read
a Special
Founder's Day Message
from
Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe.
SAAB
encourages and gratefully accepts tax deductible donations as you partner with us in our
commitment to serve young men of color in
America.
We pride ourselves on our
SAAB chapter leaders and
community supporters and hope that you will join
the ranks with your dollars in
participation.
Dear Dr. Bledsoe,
I am a brother at the University of
Louisville SAAB chapter and have been a
member for 4 years. The reason for me
writing to you is in response to our
talk we had at the conference. We spoke
about graduate school, and you told me
that you would be willing to help me get
into graduate school no matter what, as
long as I didn't waste your time.
I was stressing out
daily worrying about my low GRE score, and
my GPA not being good enough... But since we
spoke about your GRE scores and how that did
not stop you, it allowed me to breathe a
little easier. I would like to say thanks
again for your kind words of encouragement.
Also, I would like say
that your assistance will not be needed.
Since we last spoke, God has blessed me with
the opportunity of being accepted to several
schools, 4 to be exact. I've not only been
accepted to those schools, but offered a
research assistance-ship at 2 of those
schools and I'm currently awaiting an offer
from a 3rd.
Read the full
testimony . . .
SAAB Saturday at Tiffin University:
“Get in the station wagon and get started
doing something productive or positive in
your life,” advised Student African American
Brotherhood founder, Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe, to
members attending a conference at the
University of Toledo in November. “No more
excuses; be accountable; be humble,” he said
to over 200 members who came from Northwest
Ohio and Michigan to be a part of the SAAB
Saturday conference.
Read the full article
. . .
Student African
American Brotherhood (SAAB) showcases talent
before Toledo Public School board -
In an article written by
The Toledo Journal several members of the
Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB)
chapters gave a presentation on the history
and goals of the group during a Toledo Board
of Education meeting Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011.
The student group, better known as SAAB,
has more than 200 members in Toledo, OH
schools and the University of Toledo, which
is the site of the group’s national
headquarters.
Read full article . .
.
One
of the few, the proud, the Marines –
Hiawatha Clemons spent time in the Corps
packing up the personal belongings of those
in his unit who died while fighting the War
on Terror on the front lines in Iraq. “I was
proud to serve my country and help protect
it from any more terrorist attacks,” Clemons
says.
Read full story .
. .
National
Coalition for College Completion Announces
Nationwide Mobilization: Diverse organizations speak out about
need to focus on helping students finish
college, not just get in Washington,
D.C. – Today, in response to our nation’s
urgent need for more college graduates, a
broad coalition of organizations announced
the launch of the National Coalition for
College Completion. Led by the Institute for
Higher Education Policy (IHEP), the
coalition is a group of leaders from outside
the education space, including business,
civil rights, community-based, and student
and youth advocacy organizations, ranging
from Student African American
Brotherhood (SAAB), CEOs for Cities
and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, to
the National Urban League and
www.mobilize.org.
Read Full Press
Release . . .
Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe speaks at SAAB's
Associate Consultant Institute 2011
The State of Education for Males of Color:
The SAAB organizationis dedicated
to improving the state of education for males of
color. Learn more about news across the country
through articles we share with you. Please visit
the
SAAB Video Gallery
for thought provoking videos.
Work-Study Is
About Work and Study
-
CEO/President of the Lumina Foundation for
Education, Jamie Merisotis writes for the
internet newspaper, Huffington Post (09/19/11)
"It is fair to say that the
Federal Work-Study
(FWS) program is the Rodney Dangerfield of
financial aid programs.
Read more . . .
Black Males Hit
Extra Hard By Unemployment~The
country's
spiraling unemployment rate is taking a
particular toll on men as the recession
continues to roil male-dominated
industries, such as manufacturing and
construction. This
"he-cession," as it's sometimes called,
has hit African-American men especially
hard, increasing their unemployment rate
to more than 17 percent last month. One of
those unemployed black men searching for
work is Randolph Smith. When Smith, 53,
is working, he manages logistics,
inventory and supplies for large
companies. He's been trying to find that
type of work since he was laid off a
year ago — but so far, he's had no
success. Read
full article . . .
The
Completion Shortfall
- "Access
without success is an empty promise…and a missed
opportunity with economic consequences."
Americans can take pride in the great progress
made in ensuring access to college:
More than 70% of our young people start some
kind of advanced training or education within
two years of receiving their high school
diplomas. Yet for too many, the journey ends
long before graduation day. They become college
dropouts.
Read full article
. . .
One
of the few, the proud, the Marines –
Hiawatha Clemons spent time in the Corps
packing up the personal belongings of those
in his unit who died while fighting the War
on Terror on the front lines in Iraq. “I was
proud to serve my country and help protect
it from any more terrorist attacks,” Clemons
says. 
