Black Student Success Center
Inspiring and empowering Black students to pursue their educational goals while affirming their culturally unique identities.
Our Mission
We strive to foster a campus that enthusiastically welcomes, celebrates, and supports Black students as they authentically engage in the ARC experience.
Our efforts are designed to connect Black students to the programs, people, and resources that will nurture academic and personal growth.
Questions?
Contact blackstudentsuccess@arc.losrios.edu or (916) 484-8700.
The Black Student Success Center is located in the UNITE Center, at American River College.
Black Student Success Center Events
Blackademia
Blackademics
The free Blackademics program that offers referrals, services, speakers, and other ways to support your academic pursuits. Connect with tutors, talk to peer mentors, and share in events that can help you succeed at ARC.
Umoja Sakhu Learning Community
The Umoja Sakhu Learning Community is open to all students and is specifically designed to increase retention, success rate, graduation and transfer rates of African ancestry students.
A2MEND
Coming soon! We are pursuing a student charter with African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND). Check back for updates.
Black Student Union (BSU)
The ARC-Black Student Union is a student led organization dedicated to building community, promoting cultural awareness, and fostering leadership and academic success.
Black Parliament
Black Parliament is a council of Black employees and community members that address and support the specific needs of Black students.
Black Book Staff Directory
View a directory of Black faculty, staff, and administrators to whom you can reach out for support.
Additional Resources
Our Partners
Our community partners offer a regional network of support and cultural engagement for Black students.
Campus Resources
Resources for Black student success.
Sankofa Ancestral Acknowledgment
Sankofa is a word from the Akan people of West Africa. Its literal translation means, "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot."
We acknowledge and thank all people of African ancestry who were stolen from their homelands and brought to this country and whose free labor played a major role in the formation and economic wealth of this country. We also honor the contributions of African American ancestral scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs whose contributions were stolen or never acknowledged due to white supremacy.
We honor and will not forget the thousands upon thousands of lives lost at the hands of enslavers, vigilantes, law enforcers and other forces of hatred in this country, generation after generation for the singular crime of being black, indigenous, or other people of color. We affirm and uplift those of African ancestry living in this country today as living testaments to the strength, love, faith, and fortitude of a resilient people.