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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED336972 AUTHOR: Ramirez, Genevieve M.
TITLE: Retention of the Latino University Student: Student
Affirmative Action at CSULB.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
NOTE: 17 p.; In: Theory, Research and Applications:
Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the National
Association for Bilingual Education (16th, Denver,
Colorado, March 30 April 3, 1987); see FL 019 511. For a
related document, see ED 279 482.
ABSTRACT: The Student Affirmative Action Program at
California State University, Long Beach was designed to
serve the needs of Latino students, an underrepresented
population in higher education, and to help eliminate
identified institutional barriers to their participation.
Barriers include inadequate orientation and information,
poor planning and academic scheduling, limited support
services, and personal and cultural alienation. Program
features include: the original summer residential program
providing orientation, basic study skills, academic
advising, and exposure to some of the interpersonal
dynamics of the first year; intensive writing and math
instruction; and fall course registration. Participating
students are assigned a trained peer advisor for regular
meetings, progress evaluation, and referrals for additional
academic and nonacademic services. Student scheduling
incorporates breaks so students may use academic support
services, meet with faculty, or prepare for classes. Group
tutorials are also used. Faculty are involved as mentors,
advisors, assessors, consultants to peer advisors,
instructors, and referral sources. A study of the program's
success with three cohorts found their academic performance
to be better than that of a control group's, and their
retention rates surpassed even those of majority students.
(MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Advising; College-Faculty;
Faculty
Advisers; Higher-Education; Peer-Counseling; Program
Descriptions; Referral-; School-Orientation; State
Universities; Study-Skills; Teacher-Role
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Bilingual-Education;
*Hispanic-Americans; *School-Holding-Power
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