New Faces in Leadership
For the Campus. For the City. For the Future.

Act Six is a leadership and scholarship program that connects urban ministries and faith-based colleges in order to equip emerging urban leaders to engage the college campus and their communities at home through a four-part strategy:

1. Recruit and Select
   Locally recruit and select diverse, multicultural cadres of promising urban student leaders.
2. Train and Prepare
   Intensively train these groups of students in the year prior to college, equipping them to support each other, succeed academically and grow as service-minded leaders.
3. Send and Fund
   Send the teams together for four years of fully funded education at partner colleges.
4. Support and Inspire
   Provide strong campus support, ongoing leadership development and vocational connections to inspire scholars to serve their home communities.

Scholar Demographics

After selecting four cadres of scholars in Tacoma for Whitworth and two cadres in Memphis for Crichton, the first 58 Act Six scholars have the following characteristics:

• 28 African American, 10 Southeast Asian/Islander, 5 Hispanic, 7 Caucasian, 8 mixed heritage
• represent 6 continents of the world & speak 13 native languages
• average 3.26 high school gpa
• 59% female
• 69% first generation college students
• 60% low-income (eligible for a federal Pell grant)
• 84% first generation or low-income

Measures of Success

The effectiveness and impact of the Act Six initiative are indicated by the following:

• 37 of original 38 scholars in first three Tacoma cadres and first Memphis cadre still enrolled

• recent scholar survey: percent responding “good” or “exceptional” when asked to describe their:
  • social and personal experience: 87%
  • academic and classroom experience: 91%
  • overall Act Six experience: 95%
• average cadre grade point averages on par with overall college gpa's
• minority enrollment beyond Act Six at Whitworth showing promising trends
• ongoing unsolicited praise from faculty
• new conversations and dialog across campus
• scholars are assuming increasing number of leadership roles on campus
• scholars are engaged in numerous community internships and service opportunities