This report contains the responses and comments of 100 deans of engineering colleges to a questionnaire pertaining to black students and engineering education. The questionnaire was divided in three parts. Part I requested information on the number of (1) freshmen, (2) seniors, and (3) total students in all engineering departments. Part II…

American society is obsessed with "credentials," much of it brought about by institutions of higher education. The proper credentials are those determined by Middle America, and those on the outside, the minorities, must accept these credentials and ways to obtain them before they are allowed "in.""Who should go to college?" is a Middle America…

This document presents the papers delivered at a College Scholarship Service colloquium which focused on the problem of providing financial support for higher education of disadvantaged students. The papers are: "The Financing of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education: The Problem and the Urgency," by Stephen J. Wright; "Equality of Opportunity and…

This report examines the effects of federal aid to higher education on (1) class inequality, (2) racial inequality, (3) inequality of opportunity, (4) social mobility, and (5) the distribution of degrees. Chapter 1 defines the terms used and presents a preliminary sketch of the argument. Chapter 2 focuses on the effects of socioeconomic background…

The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) what attempts colleges and universities in Georgia had made to facilitate a successful college exit (i.e. a baccalaureate degree or completion of a prescribed segment of course work sufficient for job qualification or additional training needed in connection with a vocational choice) of…

This paper is a criticism of "Finance and the Aims of American Higher Education" by Howard R. Bowen (HE001412). Veering toward "free education" is inconsistent with ordinary notions of equity because: (1) the purely private benefits of higher education accruing directly to the individual are substantially greater than all costs incurred, and (2)…

The role of the graduate school in the education of the disadvantaged graduate student and in the solution of domestic problems are among the most important issues facing graduate education. Undergraduate institutions must devote increasingly greater portions of their time, facilities and personnel to alleviating educational deficiencies resulting…

Project Opportunity is a talent search and encouragement program that attempts to identify disadvantaged students with academic potential. The purposes of the program are: (1) to increase their academic achievement; (2) decrease the dropout rate; (3) increase the number continuing in higher education; (4) augment their knowledge of vocational…

The Southern Regional Education Board's Institute for Higher Educational Opportunity asked the presidents of 337 predominantly white colleges and universities in 14 southern states to describe innovative programs which their institutions had developed to assist minority students, and particularly Black students, to enroll and to succeed. They were…

In May 1970, the College Scholarship Service of the College Entrance Examination Board convened a panel of 11 individuals concerned with the educational needs of students from poverty and minority populations. Their task was to define, from their own perspectives, the higher educational needs of not only minority youth but all young people from…

This document describes a model (the PASS Model) that allows for universities to develop programs and facilities that are of mutual benefit to the university and to the community of which it is a part. The University of Pennsylvania has developed this particular model, and it is implemented in the form of the West Philadelphia Free School. The…

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…

An exploratory study was conducted to determine attitudes and/or semantic structures toward college related (Professors, Name of Institution, Afro-American Courses) and personal (Black Students, White Students, Me-Myself) stimuli within and between 2 dissimilar, all male, high-risk, Afro-American College groups at 2 institutions (Temple…

Describes how older students in an Educational Opportunity Program were selected and trained to function as peer counselors and group facilitators to aid freshmen students in adjusting to a university setting. In addition, an outline describing structured activities to be used in the group-counseling setting is included. (Author)

Disadvantaged White Americans should be actively and sincerely encouraged in their present pursuit of postgraduate and professional education by the adoption of admission procedures which take into account the various indices of social and economic disadvantage through which they have had to labor. (Author/EB)