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Download full textBodnar, Julie R.; Petrucelli, Susan L. – NADE Digest, 2016
Underprepared students often need assistance building writing skills and maintaining confidence in their abilities and potential. The authors share the philosophy, pedagogy, and experience of freshman developmental education and the writing center at a four-year, private, not-for-profit urban college. They describe high-impact educational…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Programs
Direct linkBudwig, Nancy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
This article makes the case for a new framing of liberal education based on several decades of research emerging from the learning and developmental sciences. This work suggests that general knowledge stems from acquiring both the habits of mind and repertoires of practice that develop from participation in knowledge-building communities. Such…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Learning Theories, Developmental Stages
Harney, John O. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Why is "remedial" or "developmental" education such a hot issue? Partly because it costs time and money and casts doubt on the elementary and secondary education systems that we assume will prepare students for college. The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) explored solutions to the problem at a recent forum in…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Preparation, Student Placement, Remedial Instruction
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1993
This annual report describes the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP), which serve educationally and economically disadvantaged students at independent colleges and universities in New York State. Seventy-eight programs at 61 independent colleges and universities received $19,863,000 in state aid in 1992-93 for a full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Students, Counseling, Developmental Programs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1985
A guide to the opportunities at private colleges and universities in New York State through the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) is presented. The HEOP is designed to meet the special needs of students from disadvantaged backgrounds through screening, testing, counseling, tutoring, teaching, and financial assistance. Generally, students…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1986
The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at New York independent colleges and universities is described. Information is provided on eligibility and admission to a HEOP; remedial and developmental courses; tutorial services; academic, personal, and career counseling; financial aid; and economic eligibility criteria. HEOP provides supportive…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1984
The 1983-1984 annual report of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at New York independent colleges and universities is presented. Information is provided on program administration, eligibility and student characteristics, campus programs, student achievement, and program financing. The state appropriated almost $11.5 million to serve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Disadvantaged
State Univ. of New York, Albany. – 1987
Information on programs that address special needs of students from disadvantaged backgrounds who attend private colleges and universities in New York State is provided in separate English and Spanish reports. The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) provides supportive services and financial aid. Information is provided on: eligibility for…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Career Counseling, College Students, Compensatory Education
Wright, Douglas A.; Cahalan, Margaret W. – 1985
The extent of postsecondary remedial studies in the United States was investigated in 1983-1984, along with characteristics of current programs, and measures of program effectiveness. Reliable national estimates were sought on: the number and type of courses offered; the percent of students taking remedial courses and recent enrollment changes;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, Developmental Studies Programs
Daughtry-Brian, Leslie; And Others – 1993
The Department of Developmental Education (DDE) at Peirce Junior College (PJC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serves a student population that is 56% minority, 85% first-generation college students, and 80% academically underprepared. In an effort to improve academic and counseling services to PJC's educationally disadvantaged students, a tutorial…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Counseling Services
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1981
A Ford Foundation program funded individual institutional programs focusing on higher education access and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of learning problems, and information services to help individuals make program choices. Three institutional programs are reported. In…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Basic Skills
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1981
The Association of American Colleges' (AAC) Project Lodestar is addressed in an article and descriptions of the pilot phase of the project at 13 institutions. In "Project Lodestar: Realistically Assessing the Future," Peggy Brown provides an overview of the project, which is designed to help colleges and universities in assessment of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Church Related Colleges
