Tag: black studies

  • The Other 6 Percent: Black Student Life at SUNY New Paltz

    The Other 6 Percent: Black Student Life at SUNY New Paltz

    One day Delani Morgan, a black male, was dining with his friends at Siena college. Morgan was the only black person in a group of whites. Then an acquaintance joined in with the group to converse. He asked Morgan and his friends if he could sit. “Sure,” Morgan said. They were having a conversation about music,…

  • Mentoring Transforms Freshmen

    So you’re going away for college. You take your acceptance letter, school supplies and dorm key as you say goodbye. What happens next? For some freshmen, this experience starts with little to no direction of campus life. That is, unless they are accepted into the Scholar’s Mentorship Program (SMP) at the State University of New…