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Garber, Herbert; Schell, Robert E. – 1977
Attrition rates at the State University of New York at Oswego are investigated in this paper. In 1975-76 51 percent of the students who entered as freshmen failed to graduate. The major objective of the study was to isolate and describe the differences that exist in the rates and modes of attrition among students who entered the college as…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Ironfield, Elaine – 1992
Bridges to Business is a dual admissions program between Holyoke Community College (HCC) (Massachusetts) and the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass). Established to attract, educate, and graduate linguistic minority students, the FIPSE-funded program addressed the major problems faced by limited English…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teacher Aides, College Transfer Students
Moore, Jamillah – 2000
In June 1995, California Governor Pete Wilson issued an executive order to end "preferential treatment and to promote individual opportunity based on merit." In response to the governor's order, the Regents of the University of California introduced a special resolution that barred the University from using race, religion, ethnicity, or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Students, College Admission

Shabani, Juma – Quality in Higher Education, 1995
Discusses the causes for the recent decline in higher education quality in sub-Saharan Africa and possible strategies for improvement, including selective admission to the universities, teacher training programs for faculty, student evaluation of faculty, faculty participation in instructional materials development, improvement of graduate study,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Admission, College Faculty, Educational Change
Rothman, Stanley; Lipset, S. M.; Nevitte, Neil – Academic Questions, 2002
In December 2000, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the University of Michigan could provide preference in admission policies to minority students. He relied partly on expert social science testimony, which concluded that such policies advance racial and ethnic diversity and improve the education of all students, not just the minority…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Social Sciences, Affirmative Action, Court Litigation
Montana Univ. System, Helena. – 1990
This report to the governor of Montana details higher education recommendations for the 1990s. The document opens with a letter to Governor Stephens from the chairman of the Montana Education Commission for the Nineties and Beyond. An introduction details the establishment of and framework for the Commission. A background section lays out the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Administrative Policy, College Desegregation
Hunziker, Celeste M. – 1985
The Individualized Study Program (ISP) at the University of California, Davis, which is designed to enhance retention of students with academic skill deficiencies, was evaluated. The target group was disadvantaged students who had not met the university's entrance requirements. Attention was focused on two aspects of the program: allowing students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Students
Mageean, Pauline – 1985
This paper looks at the selection of students in Australia for trades-based prevocational or pre-apprenticeship courses. Selections for two types of courses are considered in the paper: (1) pre-apprenticeship courses that focus on a particular trade area and usually lead to credit in only one apprenticeship course; and (2) prevocational courses…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Black Undergraduates in Predominantly White Colleges, 1973-77: A Report on Three Nationwide Surveys.
Boyd, William M., II – 1980
Developments and trends in the education of black undergraduates in predominantly white colleges from 1973 through 1977 were assessed by three national surveys. Almost 800 black undergraduates at a representative sample of 40 predominantly white, four-year colleges were interviewed during each survey. Attention was directed to academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Stereotypes, Black Students, Black Teachers
Tesolowski, Dennis G.; Wichowski, Chester P. – 1981
A two-phase study was conducted in order (1) to develop a profile of admission standards and practices which were being used by forty public occupational education programs in Florida; and (2) to enhance the state-of-the-art encompassing admission procedures by identifying the degree of equity associated with 19 admission standards as perceived by…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Affirmative Action
California Univ., Berkeley. Board of Regents. – 1979
The development is described of a master plan to increase the rate of enrollment and retention of minority, women, and handicapped student transfers from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the University of California (UC) and the California State Universities and Colleges (CSUC). The report first cites the larger proportion of minority…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Rate, Females
Wilkin, Anne; Archer, Tamsin; Ridley, Kate; Fletcher-Campbell, Felicity; Kinder, Kay – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
This research project, which was carried out between October 2003 and November 2004, aimed to address a lack of empirical evidence surrounding the admission and exclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN). While the relevant legislation and government targets are directed towards the equal treatment of pupils, regardless of their…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, School Districts, Statistical Analysis, Admission (School)

Garfield, Leslie Yalof – Journal of College and University Law, 1996
Legal limitations faced by law schools adopting university diversity admission policies are considered in light of the new judicial climate in which consideration of nontraditional race criteria is in disfavor. Difficulties in admitting a fully diverse law school class under the traditional application process are examined, appropriate standards…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Administration

Karen, David – Sociology of Education, 1990
Develops a gatekeeping theory by stepping inside the black box of Harvard university's admissions process. Stresses how political and organizational contexts influence selection (gatekeeping). Analyzes how student merit and social class-based factors mutually determine selection. Links an understanding of the organizational field with process…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Case Studies
Lundell, Dana B., Ed.; Higbee, Jeanne L., Ed.; Duranczyk, Irene M., Ed.; Goff, Emily, Ed. – Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, University of Minnesota, 2007
This monograph consists of 13 chapters featuring a diverse range of perspectives centralizing student standpoints about their experiences in higher education and access programs. Chapter 1, "Student Perspectives on College Readiness" (Jeanne L. Higbee), provides the results of a survey of developmental education students regarding college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement