Organization Information

The purpose and goal of this organization is:

• To make the black student on campus aware of the need for unity.
  
  
• To explore new ways and ideas.
  
  
• To improve the position of the African American students on campus.
  
  
• To make the student aware of his responsibility in the community.
  
  
• To bring about advancement in our prospective fields.
  
  
• To give African American students the consciousness and committement that will instruct them to use their capability to advance themselves, their people, and the whole of humanity to a higher level of human life.
  
  
• To teach and encourage African American students to be productive achievers in the political as well as the academic and professional arenas.
  
  
• To create a family of conscious and concerned brothers and sisters for African American students to interact with on a social as well as intellectual level - in a world, to promote the Jamaa II concept.
  
  
• To promote unity among different African American students organizations and among students of different ideological persuasions.
  
  
• To present African American students with programs that both demonstrate the richness of our culture and elicit honor and respect of African American culture.
  
  
• To assist African American students in their academic affairs through tutorial services, counseling and provision of material resources.
  
  
• To transform those departments belonging to the school of Social and Behavior Science - with a particular emphasis on African American Studies - into structures that give a more truthful inclusive and complete analysis of African American Studies - into structures that give a more truthful inclusive and complete analysis of African American people historical struggles.
  
  
• To link African American students and the academic process with the African American community.
  
  
• To encourage and instruct African American students to build alternative institutions and strive for ownership and control rather than services and influence.
  
  
• To continuously organize African American students around their own interests, to teach them to organize themselves and their communities and to make them self-conscious agents of their own liberation.