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Peer reviewedPiper, Jadwiga – Learning Assistance Review, 2001
Discusses the benefits tutors gain from the tutoring experience, some of which--deemed "silent benefits"--include personal and professional growth, and even significant changes in future careers. Examines effects of tutoring job on three outstanding tutors, all of whom speak English as a second language. (NB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), Educational Assessment
Download full textSawchuk, Mariette T. – 1991
This report describes the key elements of an alternative access program at Mount St. Mary's College (California), from the recruitment and orientation of culturally diverse students to those ongoing academic and support services necessary to student persistence to graduation. The model is outlined in chapter II. Chapters III and IV describe how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Career Counseling
