Male Success Initiative (MSI) Events/Meetings:
The MSI hour meets bi-weekly to provide a forum for men of color to unite with Prairie State College (PSC) faculty and staff regarding issues most pertinent to their lives males through mentoring and leadership development.
Upcoming Events
June 2023:
- Educational Opportunity Association Annual Men of Excellence Conference at Purdue University Northwest, 9th 10th
May 2023:
- MSI participant recognition and graduates stole ceremony, Proven IT room, 3rd
- Personal Awareness 4th,11th,18th
April 2023:
- Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) 1st and 2nd
- Illinois Tech visit 21st
- Indiana University visit 28th
- MSI Informational 26th
- Personal Awareness 6th 14th 20th 27th
Past Events
February 2023:
- Marketplace Vendor Fair, Arts & Culture, merchandise; oils, etc.- atrium 6th, 7th, 8th
- Historically Black Colleges Universities HBCUs presentation - Barnes and Noble College Auditorium, 21st
- Student Sweets Table Prairie State College - Main Campus Atrium, 23rd
- Pre-Civil War Quilts: Their Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad - Main Campus Atrium, 23rd
- MSI Leadership/Informational, 28th
February 2020:
- MSI Hour Leadership Development
- PSC MSI-DDP table atrium – Governors State University, Dual Degree Program
Cultural Event: DuSable Museum of African American History, Troubled Waters: Chicago 1919 Race Riot - Eureka College: Free tuition program for Community College
March 2020:
- Selective Admissions Program, Bloom Trail High school
- MSI Hour
- Indiana University visit
- Northern Illinois University Visit
Cultural Event: Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
April 2020:
- MSI Hour Speaker:
- MSI - M-PACE Survey, Institutional Research
- MSI End-Of-Term lunch - TBD
November 2019:
- Cultural Event: A. Philip Randolph National Pullman Porter Museum
- MSI Hour, College Success
- Governors State University, Men's Leadership Summit
- Service Learning: Bloom Township
October 2019:
- Cultural Event: Chicago Fed's Money Museum
- MSI, 10th
- Cultural Event: Indiana University Northwest
- Workshop Business/Interview Apparel, Nathan Wright, Excel
- MSI/Gallup Clifton Strengths for Students assessment
September 2019:
- PSC MSI-DDP table atrium – Governors State University, Dual Degree Program
- CliftonStrengths for Students
- MSI Leadership / Informational
- Strengths presentation Workshop
February 2019
- Voter’s registration atrium MSI / Alpha Phi Alpha Inc., Fraternity
- MSI-DDP table atrium –Governors State University, Dual Degree Program
- MSI Hour Leadership Development 6th
- MSI Business Workshop, Feb. 20, Rm. 1315
- MSI Music Open Mic Wednesday, Jonathan Pierre, Associate Professor
- Jonathan Pierre – Associate Professor, Music of the African Diaspora
January 2019
- MSI Hour Workshop: Real Men…..Mental Health issues discussion, Shannon Word, Counselor
- Young Entrepreneurs Lecture, Wed., Jan 23th
October 2018
- Cultural Event: Chicago Fed's Money Museum, 3rd
- MSI Hour, 10th
- MSI/Sarah Hein - Transfer Coordinator, Transfer Process,
- Cultural Event: MSI-DDP GSU Movie, 23rd
- MSI Hour, Workshop Business/Interview Apparel, Nathan Wright, Excel, 24th
- MSI/Gallup Clifton Strengths for Students assessment
November 2018
- Cultural Event: DuSable Museum of African American History, Clearing A Path For Democracy: Citizen Soldiers Of The Illinois Fighting Eighth, 6th
- MSI Hour/Curricular Enhancement: Thane Montaner, Associate Professor/Collection Management Librarian, 7th
- Governors State University visit 8th
- MSI Hour, College Success, Dr. Adane Kassa, Institutional Research,14th
- Men’s Leadership Conference, DDP-MSI 16th
- Service Learning: South Suburban Pads