AMER-I-CAN PARTNERS WITH TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY

HOUSTON, TEXAS…Amer-I-Can Founder Jim Brown, accompanied by Master Facilitators Julian Mendoza and Rudolph ‘Rock’ Johnson, traveled to Houston, Texas to train 16 facilitators for the Amer-I-Can Life Management Skills curriculum at Texas Southern University. "We are blessed to have Richard Johnson as our point person on this project.  Richard's vision, professionalism and dedication has brought us to a point of making a quantum leap forward.  Moreover my dear friend George Foreman is stride-by-stride with us in this maiden voyage into his hometown of Houston, Texas," exclaimed Jim Brown.

The Amer-I-Can Program will be a major component in Texas Southern University’s (TSU) conditional summer academic program for students who do not meet the University’s new admission requirements that will be phased in over the next year. Hundreds of students will attend TSU’s summer program that will run June 6 through July 31. The summer program is a unique opportunity that prepares students for college-level course work.

The free program provides students with centered instruction in mathematics, reading and writing along with leadership and character development. The Amer-I-Can Life Management Skills curriculum’s 15 chapter/ 60 – 90 hour course of instruction will augment the program.

“The beauty of the Amer-I-Can Program is its universality; the Life Management Skills curriculum will change the lives of these students and it will motivate them to make the best of their college experience. Moreover they will become great leaders on campus,” opined Jim Brown.

TSU has changed admissions policies; prospective students now must have at least a 2.0 GPA, an ACT score ranging from 15-17 or a combined SAT in the range of 775-825. Any student who does not meet the University’s minimum requirements will still have the opportunity to enroll at the University after successfully completing the conditional summer academic program.

“This is an incredible opportunity to affect change at the university level and we are extremely grateful that TSU has embraced our program; our expectation is a new paradigm will emerge that will be implemented in Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide.”