The college admissions process has grown increasingly burdensome, expensive, and morally corrosive and ill serves the college-bound student. The idiosyncratic college application form is a product of the isolated planning of the college admissions profession. Each student has to complete a different application form for each college to which he or…

Designed to assist community college and university representatives from specific academic disciplines in their discussions of articulation of degree programs, curricula, transfer of students and other related topics, this handbook provides information on how to implement statewide postsecondary articulation and outlines the duties and…

This project report outlines the objectives and achievements of Miami-Dade Community College-North Campus's (MDCC-N) involvement in the Urban Community Colleges Transfer Opportunity Program (UCCTOP). As the first section of the report indicates, the objectives of the project were to: (1) identify the competencies necessary for a successful…

A group of students of average intelligence, from backgrounds incongruous with higher education, who were all higher education bound were identified to study internal psychological dynamics of achievement. The students' values related to a positive or negative identification with parental values. Students displayed a wide range of personality…

Based on a survey of 969 university entrants from 163 comprehensive schools in England and Wales, this article examines the effect of the 'open' sixth form upon the educational background of university students. (Author)

The lack of comparable information for prospective students can and has resulted in wrong decisions about college choice, which are costly to the student, institutions, and society. A strong possibility exists that outside agencies will soon impose additional standards of comparability on postsecondary institutions. Such externally imposed…

FORTY-SEVEN LEGALLY BLIND HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES BETWEEN 16 AND 20 YEARS OF AGE, ACCEPTED BY A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, PARTICIPATED FOR 6-WEEK PERIODS IN A 3-YEAR PROJECT TO DEMONSTRATE THE VALUE OF CONFRONTING THE STUDENTS WITH AND ASSISTING THEM IN RESOLVING A REALISTIC AND BROAD GAMUT OF PERSONAL, ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS…

PERFORMANCE OF 31 LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVED ACADEMIC HONORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES GIVES FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT JUNIOR COLLEGES CAN PROVIDE GOOD PREPARATION FOR UPPER-DIVISION UNIVERSITY WORK. ALTHOUGH THREE QUARTERS OF THESE STUDENTS WERE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE UNIVERSITY ON COMPLETION OF HIGH SCHOOL,…

This study sought to check the value of the junior college GPA and other possible factors in predicting success for the disadvantaged at Missouri University. The investigation was confined to 53 of the 61 students who had received an Economic Opportunity grant or help from the Work-Study program. As these aids were not available before 1965, the…

In recent years many communities, under the sponsorship of the B'nai B'rith Career and Counseling Services, are offering an alternative to the college visit by individual students and their parents. This alternative is the college caravan. By definition, a college caravan is an organized, guided inspection of a selected number of college campuses…

As colleges and universities become increasingly aware of students' need for assistance in career planning, conventional "placement" programs have been pressed into service to provide such assistance. One of the main problems expressed by placement and counseling center directors in this regard is that students fail to seek help in career planning…