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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"admissions policy"”.
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Multimethod study of a higher education special admissions policy: exploring how student-athletes navigage their educational experiences
In higher education, it is the role of the institution to ensure the success of all students, even those that failed to meet general admission requirements (Tinto, 1993). This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explored the challenges associated with enrolling student-athletes at a Division …
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The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate Schooling
… of this dissertation is to establish whether admissions policy can explain the substantial gender differences in program quality at the PB level, or whether student-side sorting between fields and quality levels is the main contributor to the gender quality gaps we observe. There are three …
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The Development and Administration of a Modified Community College-Type Program for Caribbean Union College
… needs of the non-college-bound youth. A flexible admissions policy was advocated.</p> <p>Findings from community colleges catalogs and site-visits corroborated. They revealed that the community college "can best be summed up as a program for all" --designed to serve diverse populations of youth …
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The Building of a New Left Conglomerate in the City of Ann Arbor: VOICE, the Black Action Movement, and the Human Rights Party (1965-1975)
… what the organization deemed as a discriminatory admissions policy by the university by 1970. By the early 1970s, HRP emerged on the local political scene creating a viable third party in the local arena.
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Abandonment or Inclusion of Race in Higher Education Admissions: A Case Study of Consequences
Admissions practices and academic records were examined for African American students admitted to the University in 1968, 1978, 1985 and 1995. Independent t-tests were conducted on the means for both African Americans and majority students (all freshmen excluding African Americans) across Campus …
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TOWARD A MORE JUST AND TRULY INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
… in reality, many schools have selective admissions practices, and their education has a strong western influence derived from the few Anglophone countries from which the majority of their teachers come. The problem of practice addressed is a lack of alignment between one school’s mission …
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Looking to the future: an examination of the potential for SAT-optional admissions
The use of SAT scores in the college admissions process has been increasingly criticized in recent years for a variety of reasons. There are those who continue to support the use of the SAT in the college admissions process, those who oppose its use, and those who believe the best option is to make …
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The Federal Constitution and Race-Based Admissions Policies in Public Charter Schools
… in this dissertation are whether race-based admissions policies in charter schools are constitutionally permissible, and if not, how could an admissions policy be designed so that it would promote school diversity without violating the law? These questions are important because there are …
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Race-neutral policies and elite high schools: Who are the beneficiaries?
… more than twenty-nine years. A race-conscious policy designed to promote equity of opportunity for Black and Brown students in Chicago’s magnet schools is now race neutral. A demographic that comprises less than 10% of the entire school district is disproportionately represented at the most …
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Senior Administrative Perceptions of Retention Efforts for At-Risk Students in North Carolina Community Colleges.
… North Carolina community colleges under an open-admissions policy. The study also determined that for community colleges in North Carolina to fulfill their egalitarian role in the state's educational efforts, at-risk students must be accepted, taught, and retained until their goals have been …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… of parts of City College, leading to the Open Admissions policy in 1969; and the fiscal crisis of New York City, leading to the imposition of tuition for undergraduate students in 1975-76. Both policies illustrate the fundamental contradiction between meritocracy and democracy, two of the main …
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Equity and access in practice: The effects of admissions professionals' conceptual diversity frames at small, private, liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01