Numbers

GHAME and B2B have student chapters on 6 Georgia Highlands campus sites– Cartersville, Floyd, Paulding, Marietta, and Online.

Grades:

GHC’s GHAME/B2B Students have earned higher grades than minority men who were not in GHAME/B2B every year for the past six years. Last year GHAME students had a 16% higher GPA.

Retention:

GHC’s GHAME and B2B students have higher retention rates than the student body overall.

Here are the retention rates for the past 5 years:

Thanks to the high retention rates for GHAME and B2B, Georgia Highlands College has had the highest retention rates for African American Men among state colleges in Georgia for 7 of the past 11 years.

Graduation Rates:

• Last year, GHAME and B2B members graduated at a 42.9% rate.
• That is double the graduation rate for the student body overall.
• It is 5 times the statewide graduation rate for African American men.
• In fact, if you join GHAME and B2B, you have an 11 times greater chance of graduating.

Awards

The Georgia Highlands College Brother 2 Brother chapter has won the National Chapter of the Year Award three times, and is now ranked as a National Stellar Chapter of SAAB (Student African American Brotherhood).

The GHAME Initiative has won the State Leadership Award from the University System of Georgia’s African American Male Initiative (AAMI).

Presentations:

GHAME and B2B students and staff have made presentations nationally at the following conferences:

• Global MindED Conference in Denver, Colorado (three years in a row)
• Student African American Brotherhood Western Regional Conference, San Bernadino, California
• A Dream Deferred Conference Charlotte, North Carolina
• American Association of Community Colleges, San Francisco, California
• Miami Dade College Conference Day, Miami, Florida
• Student African American Brotherhood, 25th Anniversary Event, Los Angeles, California
• Student African American Brotherhood National Conferences, Indianapolis, Detroit, Atlanta
• SAAB Southeast Region Conference Host for three years.