Article surveyed Hawaii's community colleges on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii in their efforts to develop imaginative workable curricula for the disadvantaged student. (RK)

Academically underprepared students are identified, and a variety of programs for helping them are described and evaluated. (Editor)

Tutorial programs, curriculum revisions, recruitment drives, and other special assistance have stemmed from Califormia's Extended Opportunities Programs and Services for disadvantaged students. (Editor)

Veterans' needs for special assistance point to a series of guidelines for developing a veterans' program on the community college campus. (Editor)

This concept paper on plans for a new campus of Miami-Dade Community College in the city of Homestead's downtown redevelopment area discusses the history of the Homestead community, its planned economic growth, the community's educational needs, planning assumptions, and curriculum plans. Introductory material explains that the new campus has…

Discusses the importance of academic advising to increase college student retention, graduation, and transfer in student-support-services programs designed for first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities. An integrative, intrusive model of academic advising is defined, its benefits are outlined, and several successful…

This handbook provides guidelines for designing and establishing a vocational assessment center to address the special needs of educationally disadvantaged adults. Section I contains introductory comments on the problem of undereducated and underemployed adults and SAC's efforts to develop an assessment and advisement process specifically for this…

This booklet describes the history, rationale, and operations of Alvin Community College (ACC's) Developmental Education Program. Section I, first, outlines the college's commitment to the philosophy of developmental education; second, provides a history of developmental education at ACC, covering the adoption of an open-door policy, the…

Addressed in this book is the problem encountered by institutions as more students have entered colleges without adequate preparation in the basic subject areas--communications, mathematics, and science. To accommodate the diversity in the new student populations, varying instructional methods are required. Developmental education programs need…

Developed as part of an effort to serve disadvantaged and handicapped students at Triton College (a community college), this handbook is designed to (1) acquaint faculty, and other educators, with a grant project at the college, (2) increase faculty and educators' awareness of the needs of disadvantaged and handicapped students, and (3) to expand…

This five part paper reviews problems faced by underprepared students and describes a model developed by faculty at the South Campus of Florida's Palm Beach Community College for dealing with such students. Section I reviews issues related to defining student underpreparedness and developing a model to serve all types of underprepared students,…

Because of its Reach-Out Program, Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) has been successful in recruiting black high school students to achieve its highest proportion of racial parity in first-time-in-college enrollments (i.e., 5.2%). Through its Eighth Grade Visitation Program, High School Recruitment Program, and other components, the Reach-Out…

Summer Bridge, a 2-week, non-credit program of intensive career exploration and personal development offered to eligible freshmen at Alvin Community College, was instituted to enhance retention rates and achievement levels among high-risk students, particularly during their first semester at the college. The rationale for the program lay in the…

Designed to assist educators in the development of reentry programs for adult learners, this guide provides information on the creation, operations, and outcomes of Project Chance, a reentry program initiated at Brooklyn College during the 1970's to serve ethnically diverse, lower and middle income women from the Brooklyn community. A foreward to…

These three serial issues focus on the characteristics and administration of developmental education programs. The following articles are featured: (1) "Characteristics of Successful Programs," which reviews research findings concerning the characteristics associated with effective and ineffective developmental programs and includes a list of…