Students entering colleges under open-enrollment plans require special kinds of help from instructors of college reading and study skills programs. Such students often have poor scholastic records and only moderate interest in academic pursuits. They need highly individualized attention to the particular problems they experience with reading and…

To provide for the needs of student groups such as high school and college dropouts, adults wanting further education, students needing remedial education, and high school students taking college classes, communication between community colleges and high schools is essential. It is recommended that a team relationship be developed between high…

This study was designed to provide Widener College (Pennsylvania) with data to develop an admission policy for the registered nurse in the baccalaureate program of nursing. Subjects were the deans of fourteen accredited baccalaureate programs of nursing in the state of Pennsylvania. A letter and a questionnaire comprised of open-end and closed-end…

Three studies are described which provide evidence that women generally have a disadvantage in higher education and professional activities unless they excel in their field. To study college admission practices, bogus applications for admission were sent, ostensibly from individuals of differing ability levels, and both sexes, with appropriate…

A critical look is taken of the comparatively recent practice of awarding college credit for life or work experience. It is suggested that the life-experience approach to "respectability" combines academic snobbery and elitism with pragmatism due to the fear of declining enrollments and subsequent job loss. (LBH)

A brief review of three major lines of federal interest and action: (1) the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (the Buckley Amendment); (2) several legislative instruments intended to effectuate fairness in testing; and (3) the regulation implementing section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Author)

Institutions are unique in many features such as programs and academic and social climate. In order to maintain the opportunity to present these unique features, institutions need to demonstrate their capability to devise methods for improving information dissemination, independent of government pressure. (Author)

To achieve successful articulation between secondary school and college for students, guidance counselors and college admissions representatives are both involved in "the high school visit." Taking into consideration needs of all participants becomes of primary importance. This article highlights the Shaker High School program attempting to…

This paper reports some of the findings of a study designed to investigate the impact that grade 13 marks appear to have had on students' choice of university and choice of program in the university. (Author)

Based on a study of 52 high school seniors treated by a clinical professor of pediatrics and psychiatry, this report discusses developmental difficulties experienced by college-bound students as they anticipate acceptance or rejection by an institution. Considered are: the application form, interviews, waiting period, early decision, end of high…

Preferential treatment for minority groups cannot be viewed as compensatory justice for past discrimination against those groups. If policies are based exclusively on group factors, they can be charged with unfairness to individuals. Race can be relevant to preferential treatment, but eligibility should not be restricted only to members of…

The case for programs of preferential treatment can plausibly rest both on the view that such programs are not unfair to white males and on the view that it is unfair to continue the present set of unjust--often racist and sexist--institutions that comprise the social reality. Such programs may be effective means by which to achieve equality and…

Externally imposed enrollment limits and resultant reduced funding will effect the type of student recruited by community colleges. Should the non-traditional, high risk student be discouraged from enrolling, the consequences for educational as well as national social policy appear great. (LH)

As we approach the crest of collegiate-level enrollments in the early 1980s, we must be mindful of the potentiality of a 25-30 per cent decline by 1990. Our challenge is to plan ahead constructively to serve society and students better. (Author)

Forty people from 15 countries participated in the study group on minimal competencies at the Third International Congress on Mathematics Education. Despite a great diversity of concerns, participants found the discussions useful. (SD)