The Alpha Achievers Program, established in 1997, is a working forum of the black male students of Oakland Mills High School, Columbia, Maryland, with 3.0 or higher GPA. It is an ongoing program, the purpose of which is to foster an environment conducive to facilitating the pursuit of excellence. This is achieved primarily through in depth discussions of agreed upon topics and attendance at meaningful cultural events of an unequivocal Afro-centric nature.
All 12 Howard County High Schools have an Alpha Achievers chapter.
Each chapter is managed by elected student officers and has a school-based faculty advisor jointly selected by the administrator and the program’s co-founders. The faculty advisor is supported by a member of the fraternity who is the liaison to the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Howard County, Maryland Chapter.
All 12 Howard County High Schools have an Alpha Achievers chapter.
Each chapter is managed by elected student officers and has a school-based faculty advisor jointly selected by the administrator and the program’s co-founders. The faculty advisor is supported by a member of the fraternity who is the liaison to the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Howard County, Maryland Chapter.
Purpose
- Highlight successful African American male students;
- Nurture the development of leadership skills;
- Enhance positive character growth;
- Raise performance expectations;
- Provide a milieu for intellectual peers to interact;
- Offset the propaganda of black male failure;
- Educate regarding the contributions of African Americans
At the 1919, 12th General Convention of The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., as a result of the efforts of a Commission on Graduate Work and Public Affairs, the goal of influencing color-students to pursue education was initiated. Thus began the Fraternity's ongoing compaign "Go-To-High School, Go-To-College". With its sense of community responsibility and in keeping with the Fraternity's educational campaign, recognizing a consistent major need ont he part of black male students, the members of the Columbia Chapter of the Fraternity felt they had no choice but to initiate the novel idea of an Alpha Achievers Program.