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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED333906 AUTHOR: Kappner, Augusta Souza; And Others
TITLE: Model Programs for Retaining and Promoting
Minorities
and Women and Increasing Minority Student Retention and
Success.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 69 p.; Papers presented at the Annual International
Conference of the League for Innovation in the Community
College on Leadership Development (2nd, San Francisco, CA,
July 8-11, 1990).
ABSTRACT: Efforts undertaken to meet the challenge of
diversity at the City University of New York's Borough of
Manhattan Community College (BMCC) are described in this
five-part conference presentation. In the first part,
BMCC's president, Augusta Souza Kappner, provides an
overview of the ethnic and demographic composition of the
college's student body and faculty, and of its model
programs designed to address minority and women's issues.
The second paper, by Stephen Curtis, the Dean of Academic
Affairs, describes seminars developed at BMCC to help
tenured faculty, especially women and minorities, complete
their dissertations and qualify for promotion. This paper
also describes the college's seminar entitled "Balancing
the Curriculum for Gender, Race and Ethnicity," which
explores current literature on and teaching methods for
serving diverse student bodies. In the third part, Sadie
Bragg, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Curriculum
and Instruction, reviews the formation of two
sub-committees created to study student retention issues at
BMCC as well as other institutions, which led to attempts
to enhance faculty sensitization to student needs, basic
skills tutoring for students, and the hiring of more
minority counselors. The fourth part, by Richard Jones, the
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Freshman Studies,
discusses BMCC's Pre Freshman Summer Immersion Program
which has improved first year students' retention and
performance. Finally, in a wrap up section, Augusta Souza
Kappner offers concluding remarks which outline outcomes of
and future plans for promoting diversity at BMCC. (GFW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges; Faculty-Development;
Minority-Group-Influences; Program-Descriptions; School
Holding-Power; Student-Recruitment; Teacher-Recruitment;
Two Year-Colleges; Two-Year-College-Students
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Equal-Education;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Females-; *Minority-Groups;
*Minority-Group-Teachers
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