This report summarizes a 4-year effort to serve disadvantaged, high-risk students through appropriate college programs in the metropolitan St. Louis area. Project AHEAD (Associated Higher Education Assistance for the Disadvantaged) was aimed at the disadvantaged in an effort to find high-risk students in impoverished neighborhoods and provide them…

To identify effective new practices and trends in college student development, recent literature was reviewed and nominations of effective programs were solicited from over 1,100 leaders in related fields. More than 200 programs were identified. Approximately 60 programs distributed among almost 50 colleges and universities were found to contain…

Describes a program for qualified but financially disadvantaged high school juniors to work and attend Atlantic Community College during the summer. (PG)

Minority access to higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts falls short of its obligation by nearly 8,000 students. One barrier to minority student access is the location of the state colleges and community colleges, most of which are removed from urban centers where minority populations are concentrated. However extra effort,…

This study surveyed the extent of Special Educational Opportunity Programs (SEOP) for disadvantaged students among higher education institutions in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, in an initial attempt to establish baseline data on the nature and range of SEOP activities. From the results of a questionnaire administered to both…

The Pre-College Program is a unique design in inductive learning for the high school student from a family of low or modest income. In this program the student is not "taught," he is provoked to learn. It aims at encouraging him to integrate and profitably use his present knowledge, as he continues to increase it in a free and informal…

The Harvard-Yale-Columbia Intensive Summer Studies Program (ISSP) was established in 1965 to prepare students from predominantly black and selected southern white colleges for graduate study in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, and related fields. In 1966, 59% and in 1967, 71% of the ISSP class went on to graduate school. The original plan…

The lack of financial resources is no longer seen as the only hurdle to be surmounted by the poor potential college student. The Upward Bound program was created in 1964 to provide cultural and educational activities during the summer for disadvantaged high school students. The Educational Talen t Search program began in 1965 as a supplement to…

The participants in the Training Program on the American Indian Student had 4 major objectives: (1) to obtain a working knowledge of Indian values, culture, unique historical experience in our society and contemporary problems; (2) to develop an attitude of respect and concern for Indian life styles and for the Indian student's need to preserve…

The purpose of this study was to obtain information concerning procedures and programs established by graduate schools for disadvantaged students. A questionnaire was sent to each of the 287 member institutions of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. Usable replies were received from 248, of which 150 supplied information about…

Results are presented of a national workshop designed to improve educational and employment opportunities for handicapped and disadvantaged persons by providing a setting for fifteen university teams (one from each of the ten U.S. Office of Education regions and five at large) to develop specific plans of action for the creation or expansion of…