Reports that lower income males constitute a population of at-risk students in higher education prompted a survey of male and female community college students (N = 314) on a number of variables believed to be relevant to college achievement. While both males and females expressed strong support for the value of college education (98% and 99% respectively), females gave significantly stronger endorsement for the value of reading and writing. The majority of males evidenced strong support for academic related activities, did not view academic duties as feminine (but rather as masculine), showed little desire to abandon college for alternatives such as high paying blue collar employment, and did not endorse the idea that college success constituted a betrayal of one's roots. (Contains 2 tables.)