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Alford, Schevaletta M. – Journal of Educational Opportunity, 1997
A program to mesh the skills of counselors and tutors was implemented in an educational-opportunity program designed to serve underprepared and economically disadvantaged students at a New York four-year college in the late 1980s. The model's success resulted in additional private funding at the original site and incorporation of the model into…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Walters, John; Marcus, Laurence R. – 1985
Eight New Jersey State colleges which shared essentially the same goals and offered similar financial aid packages were studied in order to determine the relationship between persistence rates of disadvantaged students in opportunity programs and the role of faculty in such programs. Student data were provided by New Jersey's Equal Opportunity…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Preparation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Higher Education Opportunity Programs. – 1982
The role of the New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program for 1981-82 is described in this report. The opportunity program was designed to provide resources and services to educationally and economically disadvantaged students (most of whom are Black, Spanish, or Asian American) in order to improve their academic success in college. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textMISSALL, ELLSWERTH – 1966
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A 1964-66 PROJECT TO BRING HIGHLY MOTIVATED DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO FULL MATRICULATION AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE. THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM OFFERED STUDENTS IN-DEPTH COUNSELING, ENROLLMENT IN SOME OF THE COLLEGE'S REGULAR COURSES, AND INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION. FIRST-YEAR ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS CLASSES WERE LIMITED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Meredith, Larry D. – 1990
Project Engage is an after-school, weekend, and summer educational program geared toward minority and disadvantaged students to increase the number of these students seeking postsecondary education from the Erie, Pennsylvania area. It is funded mainly through Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, whose administration is strongly committed to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Advance Organizers, After School Programs, College Entrance Examinations
