Presents arguments for and against open admissions policies. (HS)

DQU in an unique higher learning enterprise modeled by American Indians and Chicanos for American Indian and Chicano students. (Editor/HS)

College teacher gives techniques 'to restore the students' natural appreciation of sound, rhyme, rhythm, imagery, and imaginative ideas. (Author/SP)

This survey of over six hundred public 2-year college presidents or administrative heads reveals a variety of interpretation of open-door admission and enrollment policies. (CA)

Discusses some of the unique problems within higher education which are present as a result of an open-door policy for students. (JM)

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…

Minnesota is leading the school choice movement, but Governor Perpich's promotional tours may be somewhat premature. This article examines the open enrollment concept and its consequences, including charges of elitism and application of private enterprise principles to education. Open enrollment contradicts the legislature's duty to establish a…

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)

Discusses basic writing pioneer Mina Shaughnessy, who advocated for a humanistic approach to writing instruction for disadvantaged students, within the context of the City University of New York's policy of open admissions. (EV)

African Americans were largely absent from a college that was emblematic of democratic opportunity. Established as the Free Academy in 1847, City College had given thousands of poor and working-class students and recent immigrants the chance for a college education they couldn't otherwise afford. But even during the 1960s, the student body of City…

In recent years, many policy makers, including officials in the Federal Government and the National Governors' Association, have advocated public school choice as the answer to the problems of public education. In 1987, Minnesota was the first state to pass legislation implementing a statewide, interdistrict, open enrollment plan for public…

Sex education, drugs, and nutrition were sources that a university school of nursing introduced to students from various disciplines. (Author)