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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"opportunity program"”.
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Leading and developing a first year learning community for opportunity program students
<p>Opportunity programs have utilized the learning community model through summer bridge programs for many years. First year learning communities have proven to be successful tools in retaining students and improving the overall college experience for students (Buck, 1995; Garcia, 1991; Gold, …
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A Model Special Educational Opportunity Program for the Educationally Disadvantaged College Student
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317242.pdf: 5856120 bytes, checksum: 21947cfc682df0136c3e92497509a270 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Summer Research Opportunity Program: Mentorship and the Socialization of Underrepresented Minorities Into the Professoriate
The work goes on to discuss the academic and professional impacts of mentoring and networking. Students reported an increase in their writing and critical thinking skills as a result of faculty mentoring. Guidance towards or modeling of graduate study, occupational preparation, and the …
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A Study of the Relationship Between the Characteristics of Persisters Andnonpersisters in an Educational Opportunity Program
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Does the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) promote access to postsecondary education for students from low-income families in Louisiana?
… financial aid funding in merit-based aid programs, as opposed to need-based aid programs. This study illuminates the distribution of Louisiana’s merit-based financial aid program, Louisiana’s Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS), to students from difference socioeconomic …
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Academic Performance and Engagement of Educational Opportunity Program Students in a College Algebra Extended Class at the State University of New York, New Platz
… academic performance of a group of Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students in a College Algebra Extended Program (CAEP) at the University of New York, New Paltz. Generally, EOP students are admitted with low mathematics placement scores. In the past, they would have been required to do …
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Social and Psychological Implications of Placement Instability Among Former Foster Youth
… recruited from college campuses via Extended Opportunity Program and Services liaisons as well as the Guardian Scholar Program liaisons. The sample included individuals that identified as former foster youth and individuals that identified as never being in foster care. The findings indicated …
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A Study to Determine the Effects of Facilitating Conditions and Action-Oriented Techniques in Cross-Cultural Counseling
… were randomly selected from the Educational Opportunity Program at the university. White students who volunteered were drawn from two undergraduate Educational Psychology classes and one dormitory. All participants, however, were undergraduates with less than 15 earned semester hours.
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WHAT FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO FOSTER YOUTH ENROLLING IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION?
… mentors, certain high school and college programs, like AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination)) and EOPS (Extended Opportunity Program Services). Of utmost need to them is a hands-on-support which includes assistance with college application completion, college class registration, …
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Design and utility assessment of attitude control systems for EVA task performance
… and reduced-gravity testing with NASA's Flight Opportunity Program.
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An Evaluation of the Effects of the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Program on Short- and Intermediate-Term Outcomes
… for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) program is an educational opportunity program within the City University of New York designed to provide economically and academically disadvantaged students, who otherwise would not have such access, the opportunity to attend college and to succeed …
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Sponsoring Educational Opportunity: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction at the University of Illinois
… conceive, implement, and maintain ""Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Rhetoric,"" a writing instruction program for ""high risk"" minority students. It analyzes a variety of archival EOP Rhetoric documents---program descriptions, meeting minutes, administrative correspondence, syllabi---to …
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Empowering consumers to reduce residential energy waste : designing, implementing, and evaluating the Connecticut neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge
… as well as concurrent development of major program changes, real-time solutions, and innovative responses. The Connecticut Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge (N2N), in which my research was conducted, was designed to determine the minimum conditions necessary to administer cost-effective …
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Parental Support of Latinos in Higher Education
… of students who participate in the Educational Opportunity Program at a public four-year Hispanic Serving Institution. Findings suggest that Latino parents support their children in non-traditional ways. For example, they used, often quite consciously, public expressions of pride in their …
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Physical and biological forcings on the carbonate chemistry in the North Atlantic Ocean
… still poorly understood and sustained monitoring programs are required in order to determine the importance of hydrographical and biogeochemical forcings. The relationships between physical and biological parameters and carbonate system parameters were investigated in several regions of the North …
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A cross cultural survey of study habits and use of campus services by EOPS and non-EOPS community college students
The following study surveyed 111 community college students to identify patterns in study habits and use of services to examine whether differences exist between ethnic backgrounds or grade point averages, in the utilization of skills or services.
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The effects of a laboratory experience on self-acceptance and internal-external control with academically deficient undergraduate students as compared to regular students
… of the control group sections contained Academic Opportunity Program students; and, one section contained regular students. The same was true for the experimental group. The experimental groups participated with a vital peer in six one hour laboratory sessions over a six week period. Each week's …
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Effectiveness of Pre-Baccalaureate Health Careers Opportunity Programs (HCOP) for Disadvantaged Students in Three Southern States.
… the HCOP legislative purposes into the programs was also collected.</p><p>Sixty-seven percent of HCOP participants were Caucasian and 78% were female. Scholastic data was limited to data from the EKU and ETSU HCOP programs. The average high school GPA score for HCOP participants in this …