GOAL I: Cultivate and sustain a state-wide P-16 educational professional learning community focused on male students of color across educational sectors (i.e., independent school districts, 2-year colleges, and 4-year institutions)
Objective 1.1: Maintain and expand membership of the Consortium to reflect all sectors of education
- Strategy A: Membership committee of Advisory Council oversees/manages this process in conjunction with Consortium
- Strategy B: Include non-education sector partners (e.g., non-profit organizations, community members, etc.)
- Strategy C: Target more ISD membership to address the existing underrepresentation of this particular sector in the Consortium
Objective 1.2: Coordinate bi-annual Consortium Institutes and other regional gatherings
- Strategy A: Continue to support and host bi-annual statewide Consortium Institutes
- Strategy B: Continue to support and host annual Texas Male Student Leadership Summit
- Strategy C: Support the launching and development of regional meetings/summits led by Consortium institutions and its leaders
Objective 1.3: Establish and develop consistent success metrics for male students of color across education sectors
- Strategy A: Use existing data and analysis (e.g., site reports, research briefs, published work) to create metrics for success relevant to Consortium member institutions
- Strategy B: Identify a scorecard and annual report rubric for Consortium member institutions to assess and evaluate their own progress
Objective 1.4: Identify and share best practices across member institutions
- Strategy A: Develop and maintain an online resource center
- Strategy B: Host and facilitate professional development webinars
- Strategy C: Support more tenured members and partners in their efforts to mentor emerging leaders and institutions at their respective regions
GOAL II: Provide development and capacity building for Consortium member institutions in their efforts to support male students of color
Objective 2.1: Develop tailored evaluation tools and a rubric for success
- Strategy A: Identify the development of benchmarks through document analysis, interviews, and site visits and reports
Objective 2.2: Implement resource center & Capacity Building Tools and Activities (CBTA)
- Strategy A: Conduct and manage pilot efforts with Consortium members
- Strategy B: Sustain research-based male students of color focused programs
- Strategy C: Create a delivery plan (i.e. timeline, staffing, budget, infrastructure, etc.) to implement CBTAs
Objective 2.3: Harness collective expertise from the Consortium members and leaders across the state
- Strategy A: Leverage founding members’ expertise and knowledge to mentor emerging Consortium institutions
Objective 2.4: Develop permanent resources to be maintained by UT Austin as backbone institution
- Strategy A: Develop resources that will serve as strategies to broadly disseminate the Consortium’s findings and share best practices through open access technology, annual professional meetings and conferences (outside of this Consortium community) and a monograph publication.
GOAL III: Establish leading research center on Latino males to include other male students of color to disseminate research findings and best practices at the local, state, and national level
Objective 3.1: Create and support a virtual research center
- Strategy A: Identify appropriate software and/or hub capable of managing large amounts of data and research
- Strategy B: Identify key staff to manage and update research center and all of its activity
- Strategy C: Continue to produce research publications and present work at national and local conferences, keynotes, workshops, etc.
Objective 3.2: Strengthen and sustain national faculty & research affiliate network
- Strategy A: Identify key members and leadership roles within the affiliates to propel the already existing research work and generate momentum
- Strategy B: Identify venues and platforms for engagement including but not limited to conference convenings, survey data collection, and mutual collaboration on scholarly activity
- Strategy C: Host inaugural Symposium for Faculty & Research Affiliates in January, 2018
