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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED221109 AUTHOR:
TITLE: A Tale of Three Cities: Boston, Birmingham, Hartford.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 79 p.
AVAILABILITY: Ford Foundation, Box 559, Naugatuck, CT 06770
($4.00).
ABSTRACT: A Ford Foundation program funded individual
institutional programs focusing on higher education access
and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation
of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of
learning problems, and information services to help
individuals make program choices. Three institutional
programs are reported. In the first report, Ernest A.
Lynton, with Diana Strange and Cornelia D'Mils, discusses
the Boston Six (Boston State College, Bunker Hill Community
College, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Massachusetts
College of Art, Roxbury Community College, and the
University of Massachusetts at Boston) as an example of
cooperation among urban institutions and their three central
administrations. Benefits to the institutions and the
population, the potential impact of state higher education
reorganization, limitations of institutional cooperation,
and participants' comments are discussed. James R. Jordan
discusses a program in which Miles College cooperated with
the Birmingham, Alabama schools to use retired teachers to
upgrade skills of students from first through eighth grades.
Gail Spangenberg, with Morton Colemen and Jeffrey Daniels,
discusses the University of Hartford's community outreach
program for Hispanics. Project designs and goals, successes
and problems, institutional cooperation, costs, and caveats
are presented. Appendices include a list of Boston private
postsecondary institutions, notes on the Boston Six
institutions, and notes on related Ford Foundation grants.
(MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Advising; Affirmative-Action;
Basic-Skills; Career-Counseling; Consortia-; Economically
Disadvantaged; Educationally-Disadvantaged; Grants-;
Hispanic-Americans; Information-Services; Philanthropic
Foundations; Private-Colleges; Remedial-Instruction; State
Colleges; State-Universities; Two-Year-Colleges; Urban
Population
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Access-to-Education; *College-Bound
Students; *Developmental-Studies-Programs; *Intercollegiate
Cooperation; *Student-Recruitment; *Urban-Schools
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