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Kent, Norma, Ed.; Carey, Donna, Ed.; Kee, Arnold M., Ed. – Removing Vestiges: Research-Based Strategies To Promote Inclusion, 1999
The four articles in this issue of Removing Vestiges reflect on institutional, curricular, and classroom approaches to freshman orientation. This issue provides examples of ways institutions meet the needs of their students. The first and last articles involve institutional orientation. Vrondelia Chandler, in "Preparing Community College…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Educational Methods
Download full textRoueche, John E.; Roueche, Suanne D. – Leadership Abstracts, 1994
The 1993 book, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The At-Risk Student in the Open-Door College," provided a status report on community college responses to at-risk students, or students who possess academic, social, and economic problems that challenge their success in college. In addition to providing a brief history of at-risk programs and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Strategies, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Risk Students
Gough, J. E.; Coltman, B. – Open Campus, 1979
The distance teaching counseling program for mature students at Deakin University, Australia, is discussed, along with the extent to which adequate counseling is provided for the distance student in Australia and other countries. Completion of admission and enrollment procedures for new off-campus students between June and December in the year…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, College Students, Comparative Education
Pianta, Robert C.; Cox, Martha J.; Taylor, Lorriane; Early, Diane – NCEDL Spotlight, 1999
Teachers' most common initiatives to help students in their transition to kindergarten signal a negative shift in quality, nature, and depth of contact. Excerpting an article discussing transition practices of kindergarten teachers, this newsletter issue summarizes a study of 3,595 kindergarten teachers. The teachers were asked about their use of…
Descriptors: Day Care, Family Involvement, Kindergarten, Parent School Relationship
Grahn, Joyce; And Others – General College Studies, 1982
The efficiency and effectiveness of using a group approach to advising by a team of faculty advisors were evaluated in 1980-81 at the General College, University of Minnesota. Group/team advising was compared to individualized, one-to-one advising of first-semester freshmen in terms of student satisfaction with advising, student understanding of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrative Policy, College Freshmen, Faculty Advisers
Davis, Barbara G., Ed. – Teaching at Berkeley, 1985
Efforts to train graduate student instructors (GSIs) at the University of California, Berkeley, are considered in this newsletter issue. Administrative changes and ways to improve GSI selection, training, and evaluation are considered, along with: proposed changes in graduate student teaching titles, grants to help faculty and departments…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Departments, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1981
An article and descriptions of programs for first-year college students are presented. In "As Freshmen First," John Orr Dwyer recounts the history of the word "freshman" and outlines some of the characteristics of the 1980s first-year student. Recognizing the problems that face students entering college for the first time, he…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, College Programs, Higher Education
Dallas, Susan, Ed. – 1982
A survey was conducted in May 1982 by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to learn how student support services were used to encourage students to enroll in transfer programs and to facilitate student progress toward a degree. Counseling services at 34 community colleges in 6 multi-campus, urban districts were studied with respect to…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students
Hixson, Bruce, Ed. – General College Newsletter, 1981
Three programs in the General College of the University of Minnesota that provide direct social services as well as education to special populations are described: The INSIGHT Program available at Stillwater State Prison; and the Upward Bound and University Day Community programs both offered on the Minneapolis campus. According to Daniel F.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bachelors Degrees, Basic Skills, Behavior Modification
