Fewer than 8% of young African American men have graduated from college compared to 17% of whites and 35% of Asians.

What are you at ISU to do? Graduate? Party? Go Greek? What are your plans after graduation?

Statistics, will YOU be one?? 43% of College Freshmen will drop out before getting a Bachelors Degree Almost 60% of black college students DON’T graduate from a four-year program within six years. Almost 54% of Hispanic college students don’t graduate within six years. Male college students are 7 percentage points LESS likely to graduate than women; BLACK MEN are 11 percentage points LESS likely to graduate than black women.

Stats Cont. White female college students are more than twice as likely as black or Hispanic men to graduate from college. College students from the top income quartile are almost twice as likely to graduate as students in the bottom quartile.

ISU STATS Overall Graduation Rate: 45% African American Student: 29% White Students: 41.8% Hispanic Students: 26% First Generation Students: 39.8% Pell Grant Recipient : 33.9% Non Pell Grant Recipient: 41.98% 21 Century Scholar: 34%

Why Such Low Stats at ISU? Reasons relate??

What if you Don’t graduate? Debt Hard to find legal work Unemployment Rate Percentage of young African American men in African American men represent 14% of the population of young men in the U.S., they represent over 40% of the prison population. Not including the young men on parole.

Federal Prison Industries What is it? Gov’t ran program What they do? Higher inmates to run companies/build products Russell Athletics What is the Pay? 23 cents to $1.15 per hour

FPI Employment 2008 UNICOR employed 21,836 inmates 17% of eligible inmates held in federal prisons. Generated $854.3 million in sales. 80% went toward the purchase of raw material and equipment; 16% went to staff salaries; 4% went to inmate salaries

FPI Employment Unicor employed 20,038 inmates Generated $ million 16% eligible inmates 79.9% materials 16.7% staff 3.6% inmates How much did inmates receive?