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The 2013 UT Latino Male Symposium will be held on Friday, June 7th, 2013.  For more information visit the 2013 Symposium webpage for a listing of confirmed speakers. Free registration is available now.  We hope to see you there!

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Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) is based within the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Our website serves as more than a web presence for the project. It also serves as a clearinghouse for emerging research and news on Latino males in higher education as well as a resource for researchers and practitioners looking to learn more about this important issue. You will also find many links to our partners and other programs that are engaged on issues related to males in education. We encourage you to explore our website and return often. Last summer we hosted our second UT Latino Male Symposium for over 200 education professionals from throughout the state. This summer (2013) we are launching our exciting new state-wide initiative called the Texas Education Consortium for Male Student Success, a partnership of K-12 and higher education institutions across the state.

If you would like to learn about Project MALES, we encourage you to visit our “About Us” page to learn more about our history and our Staff page to learn about our key staff and volunteers. You can also visit us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Thank you for your interest.Project MALES program chart, Feb 2013

 

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Project MALES wins UT student org award! Plus, mentoring work featured in two recent news stories

February 26, 2013

The Project MALES Student Organization was recognized as the January 2013 UT-Austin Student Organization of the Month for its outstanding work in mentoring and community service. More to come soon. Also, the mentoring and research work of Project MALES was recently featured in two news stories: Experts see peril as Latino boys fall behind (San [...]

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Greater Texas Foundation & TG award grants to new Texas Education Consortium for Male Student Success

November 17, 2012

In the last few months, the Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) and TG have awarded Project MALES two new grants totaling over $578,000 to support Hispanic and African American male student success across the state of Texas. These three-year grant awards will support the Texas Education Consortium for Male Student Success, an ambitious new statewide initiative that will [...]

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THECB Funds Project MALES Mentoring Program

October 12, 2012

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has recently awarded Project MALES a $50,000 grant for its male mentoring initiatives. The grant will provide support for the Project MALES Student Fellows Mentoring Program in the 2012-13 academic year, and it will allow Project MALES to expand the number of fellows and extend mentoring to a second [...]

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Project MALES Fall 2012 Training Workshop – A Big Success!

September 15, 2012

This weekend, Project MALES staff hosted the 2012-13 Training workshop for our continuing Fellows & new Mentors. We were pleased to have a cohort of 10 continuing Fellows and 30 new Mentors for this academic year, all of whom will be mentoring students in the X-Y Zone at Travis High School and Lanier High School.  [...]

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Saenz & Project MALES have had a busy summer

August 15, 2012

Dr. Victor Saenz & Project MALES have had a busy summer. The Project MALES research team recently presented their research at the Texas Higher Education Symposium at UTSA in early August. Dr. Saenz has also presented at Tarrant County College – Trinity River Campus this summer and will be participating in San Antonio College’s annual [...]

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Ponjuan gives talk on Latino males in Arkansas

June 18, 2012

Dr. Luis Ponjuan, co-director of Project MALES and soon to be Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, recently gave a featured lecture at the University of Arkansas for their “Latino Question” event in early June. Kudos to Dr. Ponjuan for representing Project MALES and for sharing the important work we are doing through this research [...]

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Kudos to FACE & RCYF for their 12th annual Father’s Day Parade

June 11, 2012

The River City Youth Foundation (RCYF) and Father Active in Communities and Education (FACE) recently hosted their 12th annual Father’s Day Parade in the Dove Spring neighborhood of Austin, TX. Project MALES is a proud partner of both organizations. Congrats on great work RCYF and FACE!

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NBC-DFW news story on Project MALES

May 29, 2012

Project MALES Director, Dr. Victor Saenz, was recently featured in an NBC-Dallas story for his presentation at Tarrant County College – Trinity River Campus. The presentation focused on recent research findings from their ongoing work on Latino males in Texas community colleges. He was joined by Project staff members Milagros Lopez and Veronica Pecero. View [...]

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News Coverage of our 2012 UT Latino Male Symposium

May 18, 2012

Several local and online news outlets have published stories about our 2012 UT Latino Male Symposium: Texas Higher Education Journal: Building a Culture of Support for Latino Males (May 14, 2012) San Antonio Express-News: Programs Needed to Encourage Latino Males (May 10, 2012) The Daily Texan: 2012 Sweatt Symposium Focuses on Minority Males in Higher [...]

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