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National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education. – 1988
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is the principal federal law which prohibits sex discriminaton in education. This monograph sets forth the extent of Title IX's coverage by subject area, describes the obligations of covered institutions, and explains how victims of discrimination can enforce their Title IX right. While dealing with…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletics, Civil Rights, Educational Discrimination
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Givner, Nathaniel; Hynes, Kevin – College and University, 1979
The problem associated with validating an admissions test when such validation is based solely on the scores of the accepted, and therefore, restricted, group of applicants is demonstrated. A correction formula that estimates the correlation between admission test scores and a subsequent measure of performance for the entire group of applicants is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1993
This handbook provides an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and aims to help medical schools to review and refine their institutional policies to conform with the ADA. The background section describes the 1973 Rehabilitation Act which prohibits discrimination solely on the basis of disability of an "otherwise…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Accreditation (Institutions), Admission (School)
Tyson, Dan – 1987
This manual presents an admissions scattergram as a tool to help school counselors who are working with high school students making college decisions. The approach described in the manual encourages student initiative in exploring, discovering, and deciding by following a rational process of understanding how to make an appropriate decision. An…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, College Admission, College Bound Students
Ordovensky, Pat; Thornton, Robert – 1992
This book offers detailed information on college admissions designed to demystify the process for student applicants. Part I opens by arguing that the college admissions process is a mystery to many applicants because in large part admissions officers would prefer to have it that way in order to retain greater control. Other chapters in this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Admissions Officers
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1983
This document is a comprehensive admissions model that has been constructed to assist secondary school personnel in the state of Missouri with the admission and selection of students for vocational programs. The model is presented in flowchart form with an accompanying outline that describes the various steps, followed by the forms necessary to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Evaluation Methods
Slaaten, Doris – 1980
This manual, revised and updated from the 1971 version, is designed to provide beginning coordinators with a usable handbook to develop new programs in cooperative office education. After statements on development of the manual and instructions in its use, the book is divided into phases, each with educational objectives, checklists, and suggested…
Descriptors: Business Education, Check Lists, Cooperative Education, Curriculum
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Brockmeyer, Marta A.; Fowler, Gerard A. – College and University, 1982
A review of issues in professional school admission policy includes a brief history of admissions; notes on contract theory as it pertains to the student school relationship; and notes on admission procedures, publication requirements, applicant information, race, testing, age, disabilities, moral character, and residence. (MSE)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Age, College Applicants
Moll, Richard – 1979
Truths and myths involved with student admission to Ivy League colleges are revealed by a director of admissions whose experience includes admission work at Vassar, Bowdoin, Harvard and Yale. Several basic concepts are offered as fact: most private colleges in America today are not highly selective; many colleges pose as being more selective than…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Codes of Ethics
Felton, Mimi Edge – 1979
Based on experience gained during the development of the Planters Employee Training (PET) program in cooperation with the Suffolk City Schools, Virginia, this handbook provides guidelines for similar cooperative adult basic education (CABE) programs. The table of contents is arranged in the order in which the CABE/PET program was developed and…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Fitzpatrick, Bonnie; Loennig, Marge – U.S. News & World Report, 1996
Two veteran high school counselors answer college bound students' common questions about selecting and applying to colleges. Topics discussed include where to begin research, criteria for selecting schools, number of applications to submit, parent role, getting counselors' help, relative importance of admission criteria, applying to parents' alma…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Admission Criteria, Alumni, College Admission
MacAllum, Keith; McDonald, Deanne; Johnson, Amy Bell – 2002
This document profiles the Lansing Area Manufacturing Partnership (LAMP), which is a model school-to-career initiative featuring an innovative integrated, employer-driven curriculum that was designed, developed, and implemented through the joint efforts of the Ingham Intermediate School District in Lansing, Michigan, the United Auto Workers (UAW),…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cultural Pluralism, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship
DeNeef, A. Leigh, Ed.; Goodwin, Craufurd D., Ed. – 1995
This book's 29 chapters by various authors are designed to provide immediately useful advice for college and university teachers concerning current higher education issues, employment, teaching and advising, funding research, publishing research, and academic communities and administrations, The chapters are: "A Taxonomy of Colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Freedom, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
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