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The Higher Education Achievement Program (HEAP) at Jefferson Community College (JCC) in Kentucky is designed to recruit 100 "nontraditional" students into the college and to help them to succeed with college-level work. For the 1974-75 academic year, this group included representation from such minorities as women, blacks, older…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educationally Disadvantaged, Group Status
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1976
Three conference papers comprise the bulk of this report on understanding "new students" and their academic needs. "The Promise of Learning Through Developmental Programs", by Johnnie Ruth Clarke, deals with the effectiveness of developmental studies while shattering misconceptions surrounding the labels typically assigned these students, such as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Educational Change
