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Download full textLavin, David E. – 1971
This paper summarizes the features of the City University of New York's (CUNY) open admissions plan and briefly describes its accompanying research component. Its major features are: (1) a system of 4 and 2 year colleges, with students eligible for the 4-year institutions if their high school average is 80 or better or if they rank in the top half…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Disadvantaged Youth, Higher Education
Hall, Eleanor – 1971
This report examines the attitudes of 1,100 City University of New York (CUNY) freshmen, both Open Admissions (OA) and regular students, towards OA. For the purpose of this study OA freshmen in the senior colleges were those with high school averages below 80; OA freshmen in the transfer program of community colleges were those with averages below…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Admission, College Freshmen, Educationally Disadvantaged
Barzun, Jacques; And Others – 1972
The Council for Basic Education sponsored an all-day symposium on open admissions in 1971. This booklet contains the full text of the addresses given on that occasion, as well as the major part of the discussion among the panelists and answers to questions from the audience. The aim of the symposium was not only to provide information about…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Applicants
Alford, Howard Lee – 1972
This study researched the impact of special admissions programs on general admission policies in 5 San Francisco Bay area colleges and universities during a period of 5 years ending June 1971. The study was conducted to determine more specifically: (1) what general admissions policies were waived for special admissions students; (2) what was the…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education
Venables, Peter – 1972
This paper presents an outline of Great Britain's Open University from its ideological inception through its ultimate development and present functioning. The objectives of the University appear in the charter as follows: "The objects of the University shall be the advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge by teaching and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Equal Education, Experimental Colleges
Peer reviewedQuinn, Edward – Change, 1973
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Admission, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Peer reviewedDyer, Peter T. – College and University, 1973
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission (School), Competitive Selection, Computer Programs
Peer reviewedLane, Earl – Change, 1972
Experimental college deals with the problem of maintaining academic standards with an open admissions policy. (HS)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Experimental Colleges
Peer reviewedKaplan, Barbara – Liberal Education, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedJanssen, Peter – Change, 1973
DQU in an unique higher learning enterprise modeled by American Indians and Chicanos for American Indian and Chicano students. (Editor/HS)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Experimental Schools
Peer reviewedKarabel, Jerome – Educational Record, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Roberts, Wallace – Change Higher Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Educational Objectives, Experimental Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedThompson, Mark E. – Reading Horizons, 1977
Discusses some of the unique problems within higher education which are present as a result of an open-door policy for students. (JM)
Descriptors: College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Open Enrollment
Peer reviewedShor, Ira – Journal of Basic Writing, 1997
Gives historical background of basic writing. Contends that elite language instruction has included some and excluded others. Discusses "tracking." States that formal education offers a top-down, business-oriented agenda: basic skills, vocationalism, work discipline, and citizenship. Considers basic writing a containment track below…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Mainstreaming, Open Enrollment
Peer reviewedBoquet, Elizabeth H. – College Composition and Communication, 1999
Examines the long and conflicted history of the writing center. Argues that it is paradoxically the very marginality of the writing center that offers its workers the chance to serve not simply in a regulatory or supplemental fashion, but also to begin to form alternative and perhaps even liberatory modes of teaching. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Higher Education, Literacy
