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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED277436 AUTHOR: Richardson, Richard C., Jr.; Bender, Louis W.
TITLE: Helping Minorities Achieve Degrees: The Urban
Connection. A Report to the Ford Foundation.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
NOTE: 228 p.
ABSTRACT: Drawing from a study of the progress of minority
students to the baccalaureate degree, this report raises
questions on how institutions and states can intervene to
speed the process of reducing inequities that are clearly
the product of past differences in minority access to
education and jobs, and identifies practices of particular
promise. Chapter 1 presents the issues, framework, and
methods of the study; identifies the participating
institutions; and gives an overview of the report. Chapter 2
provides contextual information about the environments for
postsecondary education in each of the states represented in
the study, while chapter 3 introduces the concept of
conflicting cultures as an approach to understanding the
barriers urban students experience in their pursuit of a
degree. In chapter 4, students attending urban colleges are
introduced through their own words, and through comments of
those who work closely with them. Chapters 5 and 6 examine
urban community college and university programs and services
in terms of their impact on students interested in
completing a four-year degree. The transfer process and some
successful efforts aimed at articulation are the focus of
chapter 7. Chapter 8 offers student perceptions of the
transfer process. Finally chapter 9 discusses the
implications of the study in the form of a series of
recommendations. (EJV)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Articulation-Education; Bachelors-Degrees;
Community-Colleges; Counseling-Services; Postsecondary
Education; Student-Attitudes; Student-School-Relationship;
Two-Year-Colleges; Two-Year-College-Students; Urban
Universities
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Access-to-Education; *Affirmative-Action;
*Equal-Education; *Minority-Groups; *Transfer-Programs;
*Urban-Education
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