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UConn Setting Up Living-Learning Community for Black Men

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The Buckley Hall dorm building at UConn.

The University of Connecticut is creating a living and learning community for black men in response to low graduation and retention rates among the school's male African-American students.

The ScHOLAR2RS (Scholars) House will be located at a new dormitory set to open in the fall.

The students will live together and receive specialized academic, career-development, and social support.

The voluntary program has room for 43 students who are expected to be mostly freshmen and sophomores.

There are about 580 African-American men out of about 21,000 undergraduates at UConn. The graduation rate for black men is about 55 percent, well under the 81-percent rate for all male students and the 83-percent rate for all UConn undergraduates.

The learning community is one of eight that will be housed in the new dorm.

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