Awash International Bank (Amharic: አዋሽ ኢተርናሽናል ባንክ) is a commercial bank in Ethiopia that was established in 1994 by 486 founding shareholders with a paid-up capital of birr 24.2 million and started banking operations on 13 February 1995. As of end of June 2020 the number of shareholders and its paid-up capital increased to over 4369 and Birr 5.87 billion, respectively. Likewise, as of end June 2020, bank's total assets reached Birr 95.6 billion with over 700 branches found across the country, Awash Bank continues to be leading private commercial Bank in Ethiopia.[1][2] History Awash International Bank was founded on 10 November 1994 and started operation on 13 February 1995 with 486 shareholders and paid-up capital of 24.2 million birr.[3][4][5][6] It is named after Awash River.[7] In 2013/14 fiscal year, the bank gained roughly more than 1.37 billion birr, accounting 40% of the whole private banks.[8] On 24 November 2014, Awash partnered with Misys FusionBanking Essence, a financial software company, to boost its continual growth and the branching process.[9] References "Awash Bank – Nurturing Like The River". www.awashbank.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28. "Company Profile". www.awashbank.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28. "Ethiopia's Awash International Bank : Growth amid challenges - Shiferaw". The Africa Report.com. 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2022-11-01. "Awash Bank Ethiopia - All you need to know 2021!". Retrieved 2022-11-01. "About Awash International Bank". ethiopia.financialadvisory.com. Retrieved 2022-11-01. "Assessment of Customers' Satisfaction" (PDF). 1 November 2022. "assessment of credit risk management policies" (PDF). 1 November 2022. "Battle of the Titans". Retrieved 2022-11-01. "AIB pioneers core and branch modernisation with Misys" (PDF). 1 November 2022. Awash International Bank (Amharic: አዋሽ ኢተርናሽናል ባንክ) is a commercial bank in Ethiopia that was established in 1994 by 486 founding shareholders with a paid-up capital of birr 24.2 million and started banking operations on 13 February 1995. As of end of June 2020 the number of shareholders and its paid-up capital increased to over 4369 and Birr 5.87 billion, respectively. Likewise, as of end June 2020, bank's total assets reached Birr 95.6 billion with over 700 branches found across the country, Awash Bank continues to be leading private commercial Bank in Ethiopia.[1][2] History Awash International Bank was founded on 10 November 1994 and started operation on 13 February 1995 with 486 shareholders and paid-up capital of 24.2 million birr.[3][4][5][6] It is named after Awash River.[7] In 2013/14 fiscal year, the bank gained roughly more than 1.37 billion birr, accounting 40% of the whole private banks.[8] On 24 November 2014, Awash partnered with Misys FusionBanking Essence, a financial software company, to boost its continual growth and the branching process.[9] References "Awash Bank – Nurturing Like The River". www.awashbank.com. Retrieved 2022-05-28. "Company Profile". www.awashbank.

1. Presentation for
Leadership in Social and Contemporary
Issues
Baylor University
Roy I. Jones, Ed.D.
Clemson University
Eugene T. Moore School of Education

2. Mentoring
• From the Greek word meaning enduring.
• Is defined as a sustained relationship
between a youth and an adult. Through
continued involvement, the adult offers
support, guidance, and goes through a
difficult period, faces new challenges,
works to correct earlier problems or
works to make needed changes.
• Webster’s Dictionary defines mentor as
“a trusted counselor or guide.”

3. Growing Greatness!!!
• The Antithesis to Mediocrity!!!
• The mentoring process is a critical
ingredient in the success formula to Grow
Greatness!!!

4. Leadership Begins with a
Vision
• Vision can motivate without providing
direction.
• The emotionally expressed intention to
be the best XYZ is inspiring.
• It gives us something to believe in, work
towards, and identify with.
• A Vision doesn’t always provide direction
or what to do differently.

5. What is Servant-
Leadership?
• Servant-Leadership is a practical
philosophy which supports people who
choose to serve first, and then lead as a
way of expanding service to individuals
and institutions. Servant-Leaders may or
may not hold formal leadership positions.
Servant-Leadership encourages
collaboration, trust, foresight, listening,
and the ethical use of power and
empowerment.
- The Servant As Leader, Robert Greenleaf

6. Leadership and
Foresight
“The Failure to Foresee is an ethical failure,
because serious ethical compromises
today are usually the result of failure, at an
earlier date, to foresee today’s events and
take the right action…The action that
society labels ‘unethical’ in the present
moment is often really one of no choice. A
lot of guilty people are walking around
with an air of innocence that they would
not have if society were able always to pin
the label ‘unethical’ on the failure to
foresee and the failure to act constructively
when there was freedom to act.”

7. The Landscape
 In many inner cities, more than half of all
African American men do not finish high
school.
 Ninety-eight percent of African American
children attend public schools.
 African American children comprise 17
percent of the student population but
constitute almost 40 percent of students
placed in special education and only 3
percent of gifted and talented students;
African American males, less than 1 percent.

8.  African American teachers comprise 6
percent of U.S. teachers.
 African American males comprise 1
percent of U.S. teachers.
 White females comprise 83 percent of
U.S. elementary teachers
 Over 40 percent of public school
teachers send their children to private
schools.

9.  According to a recent census report
there are more African American
and Latino males spending tonight in
a prison cell than a college dorm
room.

10. We can, whenever and wherever we
choose, successfully teach all children
whose schooling is of interest to us.
We already know more than we need
to do that. Whether or not we do it
must finally depend on how we feel
about the fact that we haven’t so far.
-Ron Edmonds

11. The number of male teachers is at a 40 year low
according to the National Education Association.

12. • America’s three million teachers will
need to be replaced within two
decades, primarily due to retirement.
• Of African American teachers, 37
percent graduated from historically
Black colleges and universities.

13. Mentors
Instructing
Students
Through
Effective
Role Modeling

14. The mission of the Call Me
MISTER National Initiative
is to increase the pool of
available teachers from a
broader more diverse
background particularly
among the State’s lowest
performing elementary
schools. Student
participants are largely
selected from among
under-served, socio-
economically
disadvantaged and
educationally at-risk
communities.

15. To maximize opportunity
and greater access,
students will have the option
of first attending one of our
two-year partner colleges
before transferring to a four-
year institution to complete
their program of study in
teacher education and
baccalaureate degree. In
some cases, the program
may allow enrollment in a
Master of Teaching degree
program leading to initial
certification.

16. It is expected that a
MISTER who completes
his program of study and
becomes certified to
teach will assume a
teaching position and
teach one year for each
year they received
financial support from the
Call Me MISTER
program.

17. Call Me MISTER builds on
existing networks and
systems already in place
in the collaborating
colleges and surrounding
schools and communities.
• Recruitment
• Training
• Certification
• Placement

18. Benedict College ● Claflin University ● Clemson University
College of Charleston ● Longwood University ● Morris College
●South Carolina State University
The Collaboration

19. Two-Year Institutions
Midlands Technical College
Columbia, S.C.
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College
Orangeburg, S.C.
Trident Technical College
Charleston, S.C.
Tri-County Technical College
Pendleton, S.C.

20. Two-Year Institutions
Greenville Technical College
Greenville, S.C.

21. Mister
An Elementary
Classroom
Teacher
N=200
Teacher Education
Curriculum
Mentoring
Teacher
Peer
Village
Support/Co-curriculum
Workshops and Seminars
Identification
Call Me Mister Conceptual Framework
&
Enrollment

22. K-16 Success Pathways
High Schools
Two-Year
Institutions
Four-Year
Institutions
Elementary
Schools
Middle Schools
Project Middle
Passage Academic Prep.
Praxis 1 Qual.
Teacher
Certification
Leadership Dev.
Direct Instruction
1-to-1 Mentoring

23. Call Me MISTER is becoming
a National Model for
successful recruitment,
retention and placement of
teachers.

24. Call Me MISTER will become a
National Model.
• The program can be
replicable for other
underrepresented
populations.

25. The Call Me MISTER Experience
Project Middle Passage Emerging Scholars Easley Housing Authority
The Co-Curriculum

26. The Call Me MISTER Experience
Littlejohn Community Center We Stand for Kids Kellett Elementary School
The Co-Curriculum

27. The Call Me MISTER Experience
NASA Pre-Service Teacher
Conference & Institute
Digital Express “Math Out of the Box”
The Co-Curriculum

28. The Call Me MISTER Experience
CMM Summit CMM Leadership Institute CMM Summer Internship
The Co-Curriculum

29. It must be borne in the mind that the tragedy
of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It
isn’t calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a
disaster to be unable to capture your ideal,
but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but
it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
-Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
President Emeritus, Morehouse College

30. Call Me MISTER
Clemson University
Eugene T. Moore School of Education
Roy I. Jones, Ed.D., Director
Winston E. Holton, M.Ed., Field Coordinator
Mark Joseph, B.S., Teacher, Westcliffe Elementary