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Download full textCalifornia State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1983
The third in a series of reports examining the impact of student charges on the goals of open access and educational quality in California's community colleges, this report considers alternatives for maintaining access and quality, the conditions under which student charges should be imposed, and the structures and levels of student charges. Part…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Arfken, Deborah E. – 1981
The problems experienced by nontraditional college students and the responses by colleges and universities are considered. The new students on campuses are adults, students from lower socioeconomic levels, ethnic minorities, and women. Since many new students tend to have academic difficulties, colleges have offered remedial classes in each…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adult Students, College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1988
The concept of barrier-free transfer from two-year to four-year colleges is an important element in planning for student access to the baccalaureate. While it seems clear that transfer works reasonably well for most students most of the time, evidence suggests that transfer may be a qualitatively and quantitatively different experience at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria
Cooke, Winnie B. – 1977
In order to provide educational opportunities for all students while preventing the "open door" from becoming a "revolving door", Southeastern Community College (North Carolina) established the Resources for Student Learning (RSL) program. During 1976, a comprehensive evaluation of the success and/or reasons for failure of current and former RSL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Probation, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions
Hyde, William – 1982
This report examines key questions related to the provision of educational opportunities by community colleges to those who are able to benefit from the experience. Chapter I discusses the different meanings of educational access and explains how different implications for public policy stem from various definitions and standards. Chapter II…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, College Attendance
The History and Prospects of General College 1932-1982. General College Newsletter, Vol. XXV, No. 4.
PDF pending restorationMoen, Norman W. – 1979
General College, an independent unit of the University of Minnesota, is described in this application for funds and associate status as a participant in Project IV of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The college is an urban, open admissions school that focuses on the interdisciplinary and liberal arts component of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Planning, Curriculum Development, Educational History
FOX, DAVID J. – 1966
THIS EVALUATIVE REPORT OF A FREE CHOICE-OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM, IN WHICH MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRANSFER TO SCHOOLS OUTSIDE THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, RECORDED THE RESPONSES OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN THE RECEIVING AND SENDING SCHOOLS. ASSESSMENT OF THE PROGRAM WAS BASED ON 2-DAY VISITS TO 63 SCHOOLS TO…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Aspiration, Attendance, Bus Transportation
VREDEVOE, LAWRENCE E. – 1967
TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF DESEGREGATION ON SCHOOL DISCIPLINE, PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND BOARD OFFICIALS, PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND COMMUNITY LAY LEADERS. IT WAS FOUND THAT DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS WERE CAUSED BY THE STUDENT'S INSECURITY AND RESENTMENT AT BEING WHAT THEY CONSIDERED "PAWNS" IN THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Discipline, Family Environment
District Court, New York, NY. Eastern District of New York. – 1974
Plaintiffs are students enrolled in Franklin K. Lane High School, and they sue on behalf of all others similarly situated for an adjudication that their school has been so zoned as to make and keep it a segregated school in spite of its location. They moved to enjoin further enforcement of the school's zoning. The board moved for summary judgment.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation
Wooller, Judith; Warner, Lesley – 2001
Central Queensland University's Women into Science and Technology program aimed to broaden the access of women to higher education, improve their career opportunities and employment prospects, and address the personnel shortage in engineering and technology by encouraging mature age women to consider these fields. The distance learning program was…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Preparation, College Programs, Computer Science Education
Jimerson, Lorna – 1998
This study examined how eight rural, high-impact Minnesota school districts (defined as those losing or gaining a high percentage of student population due to school-choice implementation in fiscal year 1995) responded to school choice policy. Data from semistructured interviews with each district's superintendent were sorted and analyzed. In each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Class Size, Competition, Cost Effectiveness
Kroll, Bonnie L. – 1979
Reactions of freshmen and transfer students to campus life during the first year at the University of California (UC), Davis, were studied, with consideration to the evaluation of support services for educationally disadvantaged students, specially-admitted students, and minorities. Comparative findings for the other undergraduate UC campuses are…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students, Educational Background
Cross, K. Patricia, Ed. – Current Issues in Higher Education, 1983
Issues pertaining to underprepared students in colleges are addressed in five papers and an annotated bibliography. In "Can Higher Education Be Equal and Excellent Too?" K. Patricia Cross claims that colleges can provide equal access and quality if major changes are made concerning such outmoded practices as faculty-load formulas and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, College Administration, College Preparation
Etheredge, Forest D. – Updating School Board Policies, 1989
The month-long teacher strike in 1987 was the impetus for a wave of reform efforts directed toward the Chicago, Illinois, school system. State legislation of far-reaching reforms, the governor's vetoes, and a subsequent reconvening of the legislature resulted in a restructuring and decentralization of the school system. Many of the reforms are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Lavin, David E.; And Others – 1984
The graduation rates of students admitted to the City University of New York (CUNY) by open admissions was studied as an extension of previous research. A sample of the initial freshman classes of 1970 and 1971 were tracked over a period of 11 years. A total of 4,705 open admissions students were compared to 8,084 regularly-admitted students.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Black Students
