Male Development and Empowerment Center

The Male Development and Empowerment Center (MDEC) provides a holistic approach to male development by ensuring that males students are immersed in a comprehensive array of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programs; activities and services to broaden their educational experience; facilitate an intensive orientation to higher education and the world of work; and provide them with an understanding of themselves and their place in history by harnessing their potential to become role models and change agents in their communities. MDEC was formally established in 2001, as an outgrowth of The Dr. Edison O. Jackson Single Fathers Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to students who ar single custodial fathers and possess superior academic records.