Umoja

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Umoja enables students to see themselves within a positive historical and cultural context that values the traditions, wisdom, accomplishments, suffering and perseverance from the past to positively impact their lives and community.

This includes seeing other people and ideas with the respect that is due to all cultures. This program is open to all students and we welcome you to join us. Our overall goal is to provide students with a wide variety of intentional and deliberate resources and tools to assist them in achieving their academic goals. This includes orientation, learning communities, individual counseling, conferences, workshops and campus tours.

Umoja (Swahili for “unity”) is a state-wide model program designed to intentionally and systematically improve academic success rates for African American students. Umoja students benefit from individualized support services such as orientation, assessment, counseling, financial aid workshops, and core sponsored activities. Umoja also offers a variety of professional development training opportunities for faculty and staff who are interested in improving success rates of African American students. Examples of program success include:

90% African American success rate in Basic Skills math courses at Los Medanos College
Umoja students successfully completed the Basic Skills to Freshman Composition sequence at a rate 19% higher than non-Umoja students.