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Perez, Pedro – 1999
The purpose of this study was to develop a mentor program for Latino students in the College Discovery Program at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The mentor program was intended to address some of the needs experienced by Latino students and to improve retention rates. This paper describes the process involved in developing the mentor…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Counseling, Hispanic Americans
Development of an Academic Alert and Advisement System Using a Participational Governance Structure.
Mackin, Sara Lee – 1979
Due to the implementation of new standards for academic progress in Fall 1978 and the resultant suspension of or imposition of credit limitations upon students not meeting these standards, Miami-Dade Community College developed and tested an academic alert program in which computer-generated letters were sent to students at mid-term to provide an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Counseling
Download full textKennedy, Debbie – 1992
Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) is one of the four community colleges in the University of Nevada System (UNS) and, with over 10,000 students, is the second largest community college in the state. When first appointed in 1986, TMCC's new president established student recruitment as the top priority. Particular areas of concern were the…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Enrollment
Rainone, John J. – 1997
Maine's York County Technical College (YCTC) developed a College Success Management course to help students learn and adopt strategies that promote their college success. In designing the course, a review of related literature was completed to determine the background and purposes of student success courses, data on student attrition, expected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Curriculum, College Freshmen, Committees
Williams, Fred D. – 1993
Jackson State Community College (JSCC) is a state supported institution in rural West Tennessee under federal mandate to increase the proportion of black enrollments to reflect the proportion of blacks in the college's service area. In response to the mandate and to declining enrollments in general, a project was undertaken to develop a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Black Students, Community Colleges
McKenna, Donna – 1993
A project was undertaken to reduce the amount of time required to screen first year students into an oversubscribed early childhood education program at a multicampus community college in Ontario, Canada, and to reduce faculty complaints concerning the procedure. The original process consisted of applicant questionnaires scored by faculty and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, College Admission
