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By Aaron Williams S ince its inaugural session in assisted and mentored African Ameri- can college students on the University of North Texas campus on strategies to obtain good internships, which in turn frequently leads to job offers post-grad- uation. AFGM is led and supported by mem- bers of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, who are also University of North Texas January 2016, the A Few Good Few Men (AFGM) professional career development program has (UNT) alumni. AFGM is similar to the Fraternity's flagship undergraduate leadership programs, the Undergraduate Leadership Institute (ULI) and LEAD- Kappa. The AFGM mission is: Chal- lenging young men to own their destiny, embrace education, and to dream chase relentlessly with passion and rigor. A mentor-based program, AFGM focuses on preparing students with the tools needed to better position them- selves for their professional careers. AFGM's target audience is African American male students; however, female students are welcome to at- tend, and students of all ethnicities and nationalities are equally welcome to participate in, learn and benefit from the program.
University of North Texas (UNT) Located in Denton, TX, 35 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro- plex, UNT was founded in 1890 as a normal and teacher-training institute and changed its name from North Texas State University in 1988. UNT offers over 100 baccalaureate degrees, 90 master's degrees, and 36 doctoral degrees. UNT is the sixth largest uni- versity in Texas and among the 40th largest in the United States, with an undergraduate and graduate student enrollment totaling 40,000 in 2021. In 2021, the UNT African American student population is 15%. After years of civil rights litigation and desegregation efforts, UNT slowly admitted African Americans as stu- dents in the early 1950s, with the first African Americans accepted as fresh- men in the fall of 1956. The African- American student population steadily increased throughout the next dozen years. African-American students made various historic school firsts in academ- ics, extracurricular activities, residency in on-campus dormitories, access to campus services, and athletics. By the late 1960s, the National Pan- Hellenic Council (NPHC) organiza- tions started establishing undergraduate chapters at the school. In March 1972,
the Grand Board of Directors of Kappa Alpha Psi approved the Southwestern Province's petition to charter a chapter at the school, the Zeta Upsilon of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., the fifth NPHC chapter formed at UNT. Program Origin In 2015, Mr. Shondrick Hill, whose daughter is now a UNT alumnus, contacted Elliotte Dunlap (Zeta Upsilon 1996) and Andre Lewis (Zeta Upsilon 1992), whom Hill knew professionally, about UNT and its African American male students. Hill discussed his obser- vations about the students with Dunlap and Lewis, and all three compared
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