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Direct linkMorgan, Kristin L.; Crenshaw, Jasmine D.; Martin, Marcus L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
The proportion of underrepresented minority (URM) students graduating with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees, matriculating to graduate programs, and entering the STEM workforce continues to be significantly low. The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (the VA-NC Alliance)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Academic Persistence, Enrichment Activities
Download full textGonzales, Sandra M.; Baier, Stefanie T.; Brammer, Ethriam C. – Student Success, 2022
This report shares practices from a successful Latinx Studies learning community model at an urban research-intensive university in the Midwestern United States. The learning community model offers a tiered developmental curriculum to support the three different stages of a student's journey, from enrollment to graduation. The three distinct…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Urban Schools, Research Universities, Communities of Practice
Walters, Nancy; DeSalvo, Alaina; Shafer, Shakiya – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2017
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
Purpose: This directory identifies, describes, and contains evaluative data evidence-based practices that improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. Methodology: The directory was a…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Practices, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this directory was to identify, describe, and evaluate evidence that the education practices improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. Method: The sample for the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
This 2016 directory identifies, describes, and contains evaluative data evidence-based practices that improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. The directory was a production of the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Walters, Nancy; Mixon, Joel D.; Oliver, Nekey – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2015
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Walters, Nancy; Williams-Wyche, Shaun – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2013
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Walters, Nancy; Ayodele, Alicia – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2011
This report provides information on the outcomes of the Intervention for College Attendance Program, a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Peer reviewedKunkel, Mark A.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1991
This article describes a summer mathematics enrichment program for gifted junior high students. Concerns in the areas of attrition, student motivation, student selection, and developmental influences on student persistence are raised, and research directions are outlined. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academically Gifted, Enrichment Activities, Junior High Schools
Zhang, Zhicheng; RiCharde, R. Stephen – 1999
Entering college students participated in a 4-week summer transition program that offered intensive course-based academic training and opportunities for faculty-student interaction. Enrichment activities were used in addition to instruction to consolidate student learning. Data were collected for 176 program participants from the class of 2001 and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Early Intervention
Rodriguez, Joseph – 1990
This paper proposes a cooperative program between Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and Erie (Pennsylvania) Public Schools to encourage at-risk secondary school students to stay in school and aspire to a college education. The program involves the staged implementaiton of the following components: (1) an after-school "academy" to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, After School Education, College School Cooperation
Meredith, Larry D. – 1990
Project Engage is an after-school, weekend, and summer educational program geared toward minority and disadvantaged students to increase the number of these students seeking postsecondary education from the Erie, Pennsylvania area. It is funded mainly through Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, whose administration is strongly committed to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Advance Organizers, After School Programs, College Entrance Examinations
Thomas, Gail E., Ed. – 1981
The conditions and experiences of black students in higher education in the 1970s are addressed in 27 essays. The essays are categorized in terms of: history and profile; admissions and access; enrollment, academic experience, and career choice; black higher educational survival; recruitment and retention; and structural policies. Among the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
