SUSLA's Student Government Association is organizing a recruitment day. Special guests will include Louisiana rappers Bay Bay, Mystikal, and Hurricane Chris.
AnWhat Entertainment is putting this event together along with the campus' SGA. Nnena Oka, that company's representative, said the event isn't a concert so much as a way to motivate high school seniors to apply to college. SUSLA in particular.
"This (event) is to raise awareness and to bring up the college rate, its also motivation to stay in education," she said.
Motivation is needed. The drop out rate for Caddo Parish, according to the 2009 Kids Count survey, is 8.6 percent. Meaning, that 1,107 students didn't make it to graduation.
Break that number down by racial lines, however, you have a bigger story. According to the same report, 11.1 percent of black students dropped out before their senior year of high school.
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