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Blake, Nicola – NADE Digest, 2016
Guttman Community College (GCC), a newly-established, urban community college, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enrolls a largely traditional student body which is also predominantly minority. Students enter the college with an average high-school grade-point average of 75% (C average), and are required to enroll in three first-year…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Programs, Developmental Programs, College Freshmen
Curtin, Joseph A.; Hartley, Julie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2017
Students who arrive on campuses unprepared for college-level work find that it costs them potentially extra time and money to complete developmental courses they would not have needed had they arrived fully prepared in all subjects. Institutions of higher education face their own costs and capacity challenges when trying to teach students the…
Descriptors: Demography, Developmental Programs, College Preparation, Remedial Programs
Fuller, Ivan – Liberal Education, 2014
In November 2011, the author--Ivan Fuller, a professor of theatre and associate dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University--attended a joint symposium of the American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa that was designed to wrestle with the question of why the humanities matter. At one session, participants…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, School Orientation, Critical Thinking
McPhail, Ruth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The expectations of first-year students are becoming more widely researched and understood. How to realign perceptions and prepare students for the transition from secondary school to tertiary education is less well considered. This paper presents an account of a pre-university preparation programme embedded in the senior years of secondary…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Preparation, College Readiness, Transitional Programs
Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Bork, Rachel Hare; Mayer, Alexander K.; Pretlow, Joshua; Wathington, Heather D.; Weiss, Madeline Joy – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
Developmental summer bridge programs are a popular strategy for increasing college readiness among recent high school graduates. Aimed at providing an alternative to traditional developmental education, these programs provide accelerated and focused learning opportunities in order to help students acquire the knowledge and skills needed for…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, High School Graduates
Masters, Jennifer; Donnison, Sharn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Research on student retention and transition in higher education has been an ongoing focus since the 1950s and during the past decade research into this area has gathered momentum as institutions of higher education increasingly recognise the economic and social costs of failing to retain and transition future graduates. Measures to improve…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
Wolfe, Brent D.; Kay, Gregor – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Colleges and universities across the United States are struggling with student retention and attrition (Derby & Smith, 2004; Jacobs & Archie, 2008; Tinto, 1993). As a result, theoretically supported interventions designed to encourage retention and persistence are needed. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to intentionally create…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, School Orientation, School Holding Power, Outdoor Education
Sagaria, Mary Ann Danowitz – 1978
A classification system for freshman courses that is useful as a planning tool and descriptive guide is presented and examples of analogous programs are described. Three approaches to freshman courses--interdisciplinary, developmental, and utilitarian--form a continuum, since many courses are derived from more than one philosophical base. The…
Descriptors: Classification, College Curriculum, College Freshmen, Curriculum Development
Finnell, Sara; Flanders, John – 1976
A program of developmental activities is provided for high risk students entering Tennessee Technological University. The purpose is to help the student develop skills in studying, communicating with others, socializing, decision making and career planning. Counseling Center staff members serve as academic advisors for high risk students who are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Admission, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs
Holmberg, James; And Others – 1979
Nearly 37% (80 students) of the 219 entering, first-time freshmen, who were enrolled in second-level (requiring high school level skills) developmental reading and composition courses at the Community College of Allegheny County, were block-enrolled into a social science/history elective, "Man, Time, and Social Change." The same group of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), College Freshmen, Community Colleges
McPherson, Douglas – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how and why Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) has developed a system aiming to effectively place students in freshman and developmental English programs. The placement system includes: triangulating data from external test scores, with scores from a panel-marked hand-written essay (HWE),…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Educational Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a strong network of committed colleagues to launch an initiative like "SENSE." From its conception in fall 2006 to the first national administration in fall 2009, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement ("SENSE") has been supported by key individuals and groups, without whom there would have been…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Student Experience
Presley, John W. – 1981
In 1974, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia created the developmental studies program in response to a growing number of entering freshmen who were inadequately prepared for curricula assuming mastery of the basic skills. Early attempts to evaluate developmental programs in Georgia simply used standard survey techniques to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction

Gold, Maria-Valeri – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1992
A four-week summer program at Georgia State University prepares entering African-American students for college work through instruction in mathematics, reading, composition, study skills, word processing, tutoring, academic and career counseling, mentoring, and follow-up. The program has been well received and succeeded in enhancing retention.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Students, College Bound Students, College Freshmen
Bohr, Dorothy H.; And Others – 1983
A profile is presented in this report of Project HELP (Higher Education Learning Package), a liberal arts instructional program alternative developed to assist high-risk, first-time community college students, with multiple deficiencies in reading, writing, and computational skills, to succeed and continue in college. Introductory material…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
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