Glassboro State College, through its supplementary training program, has attempted to demonstrate its commitment to academic relevance, social concern, and individual advancement. The program was originally designed to supplement regular college programing by including an atypical group of students--the poor, employed, experience-oriented adult.…

This report examines the attitudes of 1,100 City University of New York (CUNY) freshmen, both Open Admissions (OA) and regular students, towards OA. For the purpose of this study OA freshmen in the senior colleges were those with high school averages below 80; OA freshmen in the transfer program of community colleges were those with averages below…

This study compared the growth in language development between the experimental group receiving direct instruction and the control group receiving a more nondirective traditional type of program. Of the 94 3- and 4-year-old children in the study, 57% were of Mexican-American descent, 39% were of white-American background, and 4% were black. The…

Articles, fiction, and poetry that form a picture of Chicano life today are presented in this anthology of writings about Mexican Americans. Included are reminiscences of Mexican American childhood, accounts of Chicanos in the American school system, reports on strikes by Chicano workers, and poems and stories that reflect the hard realities of…

In April 1965 the Educational Research (now Resources) Information Center (ERIC) was delegated the responsibility of improving the availability of educational information, especially information about the disadvantaged. The purpose was to assist local education agencies to develop and implement their own programs for the disadvantaged and for all…

This is the report of a study conducted at Northeast Missouri State College to discover if tutoring and advising can change academically unsuccessful freshmen into more successful students. To this end, a total of 799 students were tutored by competent upper-division students during the 1970-71 academic year in the fields of English, mathematics,…

A major problem in higher education today is that of providing educational programs for students of diversified educational backgrounds. One possible solution is to use the systems approach in the basic studies of general education to provide instructional patterns that can be accommodated to the individual needs of all students. This study set…

A study conducted in the fall of 1971 assessed the attitudes community college faculty held toward academically disadvantaged students and identified certain factors relating to those attitudes. A semantic differential research instrument discriminating between faculty holding "more favorable" and "less favorable" attitudes was…

The focus of the program described in this paper was to help junior college counselors and other staff be more effective in working with educationally disadvantaged women students. A second purpose was to train junior college staff in the use of group counseling as a technique which could reach more students than present methods. The program for…

This study is an attempt to determine the impact of adult basic education programs on the upward mobility of disadvantaged workers. The programs studied were utilized by southern paper companies to increase the promotion potential of Negroes who were originally employed for unskilled jobs without opportunities for advancement. The study found that…

This study researched the impact of special admissions programs on general admission policies in 5 San Francisco Bay area colleges and universities during a period of 5 years ending June 1971. The study was conducted to determine more specifically: (1) what general admissions policies were waived for special admissions students; (2) what was the…

This paper focuses on high-risk students and the challenge they present to the community college. The goals of the community college are analyzed and the problems encountered in reaching those goals are discussed. A summary of two workshops held in Chicago entitled "Long Range Results-Academic Supports for the Collegiate Black and Poor," and…

This paper discusses the development, implementation, and evaluation of a first-year action program at Indiana University, South Bend, designed to prepare urban people for careers in education. The program was initiated because of the need presented by the ever growing concentration of blacks in the urban environment who, in many cases, face poor…

This document contains Part I of a transcript of a broadcast from "Options in Education", an electronic weekly magazine covering news, features, policy and people in the field of education. Compensatory education is disussed by : government personnel (e.g. a congressional aide; a school superintendent); education personnel (e.g., an…

Covering the period 1900-1930, the article discusses the role of mass public education in the Los Angeles Chicano community, the functions of counselors, curriculum development and vocational education in the high schools, the enrollment of Mexican students, and the relationship between education and monopoly capitalism. (NQ)