Abstract
Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) is dedicated to equipping People of Color for leadership positions in business organizations and communities throughout the world. MLT achieves its mission through skilled coaching programs offered to underrepresented minorities at
critical educational and career transition points in their lives. These programs are supported by an MLT alumni network of more than 7,000 members and committed partnerships with over 80 leading businesses and organizations.
Through a competitive process, MLT selected Brandeis University’s Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of its Career Prep program, an intervention for students of color transitioning from college to the workforce. The evaluation employed a mix of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses, including original data collection (survey data, interviews) and secondary data analyses of nationally representative data of college graduates and MLT institutional records. In particular, original data collection included 50 interviews with a range of stakeholders, and an online survey administered within the MLT community and with a key comparison group of students from low-income backgrounds attending a public university. Additional data sources involved analyses of matched samples derived from the nationally representative Baccalaureate & Beyond panel data set, collected through the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S Department of Education, and MLT institutional data.