This document analyzes and evaluates the exceptional graduate admissions program at Pennsylvania State University as instituted in 1970. Under this program, traditional admissions criteria are dropped to enable disadvantaged students to attend graduate school. (A previous survey of the Council of Graduate Schools showed that 59% of the member…

This address focuses on the topic of open admissions and its implications for policies and procedures. A discussion, defining terms like excellence, equality, and open admissions, initiates a brief examination of issues such as institution-based and individual-based barriers to posesecondary schooling, the organization of college admissions--its…

This report marks the conclusion of a special project supported by the Carnegie Corporation as an integral part of the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) commitment to provide full opportunity for blacks in postsecondary education. The summary report includes a brief account of a writing conference which dealt with seven questions: (1)…

The City College of New York's dean of humanities reflects on the gains, the losses, and the meaning of the experience of open admissions for American education. (Editor/RK)

The Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) in California appears to be a very successful program with considerable promise for substantially raising higher education participation rates for low-income and minority group students. (Author)

The black graduate student continues to face discrimination at the doctoral level because of widespread belief that black graduates are not research-oriented. (DS)

One of the pivotal points in open admissions is how well the new students do with English. This article explores some of the successes and failures in this department. (Editor)

Most barriers to higher education fall into one of six categories: personal access barriers (e.g., lack of information, low self-esteem, or loss of motivation); socioeconomic barriers (e.g., lack of transportation or child care); sociocultural barriers (e.g., family pressures or language problems); socioeducational barriers (e.g., inadequate…

A comparison is made of the gains in examination performance of students in an open enrollment college for whom counseling in study strategy, immediate feedback, and motivational approaches were available or not available. (Author)

Liberal arts teachers must serve culture as well as credentialism, so that open-admissions does not mean a lowering of standards. (JH)

This letter from Seymour Heyman, Deputy Chancellor of the City University of New York, answers on a point-by-point basis the criticism leveled against the open admissions policy of CUNY by Evans and Novak in an article in the Washington Post. The letter identifies "the utterly baffled freshman" as a newly arrived student from Greece with…

In December 1963, President James A. Perkins established the Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP), which was to recommend and initiate programs through which Cornell University could make a larger contribution to the education of qualified students who have been disadvantaged by their economic, cultural, and educational environments.…

Colleges must devise procedures, says the author, to help under-prepared students, who have been newly admitted, to overcome their deficiencies in academic skills. (Author/RK)