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Tilton, Betty D. – 1979
The development and maintenance of a computerized data base at Florida State University and its use in monitoring student retention are discussed. The information system was needed to support a study of persistence of black students and to provide updating on a regular basis of changes in attendance patterns. A system was designed using MARK IV.…
Descriptors: Attendance Records, Black Students, College Students, Computer Oriented Programs
National Alliance of Black School Educators, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
The National Alliance of Black School Educators' (NABSE) Educational Development Plan (EDP) was initiated in 1985 as a four-year effort to implement the findings and recommendations of NABSE's report of the Task Force on Black Academic and Cultural Excellence, "Saving the African American Child" (1984). The EDP has the following major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black Education
Download full textHudley, Cynthia Ann – 1994
Biased social information processing has been solidly linked to aggressive behavior in children. Additionally, attributional tendencies, the tendency to overattribute deliberately hostile intentions to others, have been shown to distinguish aggressive and nonaggressive male youth. In order to reduce aggressive males' tendency to attribute hostile…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons, Behavior Change
Warfield, Deborah – 1985
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…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged
Young, Dale A. – 1992
In 1979, Stark Technical College (STC) in Canton, Ohio, launched the Project for Academic Excellence (PAX) with the overall objective of identifying minority elementary and junior high school students of at least average ability and motivating them to prepare for higher education. During the academic year, PAX operates two 10-week Saturday School…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Engineering. – 1975
Two surveys were conducted to identify the essential characteristics of minority engineering programs and to provide summaries of ongoing minority programs in a broad sampling of engineering schools. The first surveyed colleges with the largest minority enrollments, including the 6 traditionally Black schools and 45 predominantly white schools.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, American Indians, Black Colleges, Black Students
