Black and Latino Male conference addresses issues in higher ed – Swarthmore College – Pennsylvania

Swarthmore hosted the seventh annual Black and Latino Male Conference this weekend, drawing a record 130 students and faculty from 14 different colleges and universities. The conference was sponsored by Swarthmore’s Achieving Black and Latino Leaders of Excellence and the Consortium of High Achievement and Success.

ABLLE, a year-old group on campus, promotes a collective presence of blacks and Latinos at Swarthmore, while CHAS functions as an external organization. Titled “The New Danger: Black and Latino Men Facing Evolving Challenges to their Scholarship and Community,” the three-day conference combined lectures by prominent speakers with closed discussions about proactively dealing with new issues facing black and Latino males in higher education. Students, faculty and administrators from small colleges and universities around the country, including Reed, Bates, Haverford and many more, attended the conference. Each student left the conference with an action plan to take back to their campuses.”*

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