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Leatherman, Courtney – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
A government study of the tuition-guarantee programs emerging in the 1980s, promising college tuition to high school students persisting to graduation, has found the programs to be effective in retaining students. The most successful programs use adult mentors and offer tutoring, beginning as early as fifth grade. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, High School Students, Higher Education, Incentives
Hudson, J. Blaine – 1988
This study reviewed the organization and operations of the University Tutoring Program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) through the 1986-1987 academic year. The study also described the demographic and academic characteristics of the year's tutoring population and analyzed the outcomes of the use of tutoring services. A database for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Finke, Charles L. – Journal of Legal Education, 1989
A study of the fairness and utility of race-conscious academic support services offered at law schools finds that law schools should increase academic support for nontraditional students. A University of Oregon program is used to illustrate the potential for program success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Ancillary School Services, Higher Education, Legal Education (Professions)
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Juel, Connie – Reading Teacher, 1991
Describes a cross-age tutoring program that provides benefits to both the university student athletes who serve as tutors and the elementary school students with whom they work. Gives reasons for the success of the program, as well as evidence of the success. (MG)
Descriptors: Athletes, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
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Maxwell, Martha – Journal of Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews factors affecting the tutoring process, including students' expectations of tutors; equitable tutor-tutee relations; and tutor gender. Considers ways tutoring can capitalize on peer relationships and reasons that students earn higher grades with a same-sex tutor. Suggests that tutor training address cultural sex stereotypes, ethnic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Ethnicity, Literature Reviews, Minority Groups
Blacklow, Robert S.; And Others – 1971
The three major components of the HCSP, Academic Course Work, Academic Tutorial, and Clinical Tutorial, are discussed in detail, as well as budgeting considerations, program effectiveness, and recommendations for the future. See also TM 000 760 and TM 000 761. (AG)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1993
This annual report describes the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP), which serve educationally and economically disadvantaged students at independent colleges and universities in New York State. Seventy-eight programs at 61 independent colleges and universities received $19,863,000 in state aid in 1992-93 for a full-time equivalent…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Students, Counseling, Developmental Programs
Blacklow, Robert S.; And Others – 1971
One of the most important factors in improving health care among minority groups is the training of adequate numbers of minority health care workers. In view of this need, the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine initiated a Health Careers Summer Program designed to attract more minority group students into medicine and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Dentists
Adolphus, Stephen; And Others – 1979
This paper addresses developmental education programs as mechanisms for enhancing the survival rates of disadvantaged populations in higher education. Specifically, the paper identifies and discusses the critical dimensions of effective developmental education programs, including recruitment, admissions, diagnosis and prescription, orientation,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Counseling Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Renick, James C.; Cadenas, Hortensia B. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
George Mason University's (GMU) (Virginia) successful Early Identification Program includes alliances with three public school districts to foster early, consistent intervention, and to encourage and motivate at-risk minority students to complete a college preparatory curriculum and enroll in colleges. GMU guarantees admission to participants who…
Descriptors: Affiliated Schools, College Admission, College Preparation, College Role
Boughan, Karl – 1996
The Office of Student Support Services (SSS) at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) is an academic support program for at-risk students. Created for low-income and first-generation students and those with physical and learning disabilities, the program provides specialized study tools, tutorial assistance, and social and emotional support.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Asian Americans