Higher Ed
Improve Student Retention and Build Student Engagement
Remember that lecture that stuck with you? Or the book you studied in college that changed the trajectory of your life? Hasan is passionate about helping you with strategies to retain your multicultural students. He travels to colleges and universities across the country, sharing his story with students and providing staff development to faculty.
Who This is For:
- Director of Multicultural Centers interested in providing faculty, staff and students with diverse cultural opportunities
- Faculty looking for first person narratives of success to spur discussion in class
- Admissions and student support staff seeking to increase recruitment and retention of African American students
- Student organizations seeking a dynamic speaker for student events
Services Offered
Virtual Professional Learning Community
Engage, Encourage, and Empower: a book study of Written Off, facilitated by Hasan Davis. Includes:
- 15 copies of Written Off (shipped to one address)
- One-hour planning session and one-hour debrief session with coordinating team to determine results and assist in the design of an evaluation tool
- Four one-hour Zoom calls (frequency determined by host) with staff/educators to discuss the book, and the key elements that can inform their work with youth during this time
Using Story to Engage, Encourage, and Empower: a guided video screening of “The Long Climb to Freedom, from slave to soldier to scholar - the story of A. A. Burleigh.” Includes:
- One-hour planning session and one-hour debrief session with coordinating team to determine results and assist in the design of an evaluation tool.
- Two one-hour Zoom calls with staff/educators; call one to meet and prep video, and call two to debrief video and discuss how to use story in their work.
Living History Character Performance
Bring students, staff, and the community together for an engaging and inspiring one-man show highlighting a little-known African American historical figure. Hasan also highlights his experience successfully navigating post-secondary education with his struggles and learning disabilities.
Professional Development
Hasan will train your faculty in strategic ways to support African American students so that they succeed and thrive in college.
Bulk Discount on Books
Several college professors have used Hasan's book, Written Off, as part of their curriculum. Learn how you can use his book in the classroom and ......
Now offering virtual options
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We can no longer believe that our greatest accomplishment is getting a student into college. We must have a plan with clear strategies to support each student through graduation.
What Our Higher Ed Partners are Saying
I was deeply moved by your performance, as well as your life story. I cannot remember a time I was so captivated by a presenter. The stories of our people are left untold, leaving us wondering through life trying to find our identity. Please continue your great work for all students.
Your presentation to us was absolutely fabulous and moving. I’m most often a hard-sell at events like this, but I felt very inspired by your talk.
Hasan’s book, Written Off: How One Man’s Journey through Poverty, Disability and Delinquency is Transforming the Juvenile Justice System was well-received by my students in a Sociology course on Juvenile Delinquency; several students said it was their favorite book of the term. Hasan’s visits to my class were also a gift – his knowledge of the justice system coupled with his passion for creating change and an ability to reach students transformed the classroom.
Bring Hasan to Your Campus
As a performer, scholar, and teacher, Hasan will captivate your students and staff with his story and wisdom.
