Stats & Awards
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:
| Year | GHC | GHAME/B2B |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | 64.3% | 100% |
| 2018-2019 | 66.4% | 83.3% |
| 2017-2018 | 66.3% | 96.4% |
| 2016-2017 | 66.7% | 90.0% |
| 2015-2016 | 69.8% | 95.0% |
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.