ABSTRACT
Increasingly, college campuses across the country are designing more programs to serve and meet the needs of their first-generation college student populations. Project Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success (MALES) was launched in 2010 by a team of faculty, staff, and students from UT Austin and Texas A&M University to enhance the success of male students of color, many of whom are first-generation college students. First-generation college students have been the key focus of Project MALES since the program’s inception. The Project MALES mentoring program is led by a project coordinator and a team of graduate students, the majority of whom identify as first- generation students. A key element of the Project MALES student mentoring program is the ongoing professional development provided to the mentors. The Project MALES student mentoring program also tracks student outcomes to ensure that students are progressing in measurable ways.
