Who's Got Next: SOTA's KEMET Academy as a Model to Improve the Community College to PhD Pipeline

• Published in: The Journal of Negro education Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 243 - 254
• Main Authors: Denise Davis-Maye, Dannielle Joy Davis, Tamara Bertrand Jones
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Journal of Negro Education 01.07.2013; Journal of Negro Education; Howard University School of Education
• Subjects: African American Students; African Americans; Black communities; Blacks; College Students; College Transfer Students; Colleges, Junior; Community Colleges; Competence; Competency Based Education; Cultural Sensitivity; Cultural Values; Disadvantaged Schools; Enrichment Activities; High School Students; Higher education; Mentoring; Minority group students; Pipelines; Rural Areas; Rural Youth; Schools; Secondary Schools; Socialization; Students; Success; Two Year College Students; Youth; Alabama
• ISSN: 0022-2984; 2167-6437
• DOI: 10.7709/jnegroeducation.82.3.0243

The authors present Sisters of the Academy's (SOTA) adaptation of the KEMET Academy model, an academic and cultural enrichment program for African American students attending underresourced schools, to strengthen the pipeline for community college students from undergraduate through professional school. The KEMET model was designed by SOTA members and affiliates at a Southern land-grant institution and implemented over a five-year period as a competency-based program to increase the numbers of secondary students who chose to enter undergraduate schools. The programmatic outcomes yielded the KEMET Competencies Associated with Success for Rural Youth (CASRY). The authors believe that the CASRY framework may be applied to efforts at levels beyond the K-12 to four-year college transition. The KEMET Model components, combined with SOTA's conceptualization of socialization, presents a comprehensive, culturally competent, value specific, model that can be used to prepare and socialize African American community college students.