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Download full textSonnek, Bonnie K. – 2000
The IowaLink Program at the University of Iowa is a two-semester, academic support program for recruited students. The program provides an extended academic transition between high school and college for students who have demonstrated the potential to succeed at Iowa but who do not meet standards for regular admission. One of the features of the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Environment, First Year Seminars, Higher Education
Cherney, Elaine E. – 1990
Thirty-nine at-risk college freshmen participated in an eight week non-credit seminar in the Fall of 1989. At the beginning of the seminar, students indicated that they enjoyed reading, did leisure reading, and felt that lack of vocabulary, slow reading rate, and inability to concentrate were their major reading problems. They also described their…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Critical Reading, First Year Seminars, High Risk Students
