Program for At-Risk Students Helps College, Too

Autor/in	Carlson, Scott
Titel	Program for At-Risk Students Helps College, Too
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Student Characteristics; At Risk Students; Community Organizations; Neighborhoods; Urban Youth; Program Descriptions; Rural Schools; Partnerships in Education; Educational Finance; Academic Persistence; Colleges; Vermont + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Bildungsfonds; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule
Abstract	The author introduces a new program that brings city kids who really need college to a private rural campus that really needs kids. Under the program, called Pipelines Into Partnership, a handful of urban high schools and community organizations--the groups that know their kids beyond the black and white of their transcripts--determine which students have the guts, tenacity, and desperate need for a four-year college education, far from the temptations and distractions of the city. On those recommendations, Southern Vermont College accepts students who often come from fractured families and tough neighborhoods in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Schenectady. The program is just starting its second year--still in a pilot phase, with a total of 32 students out of a student body of about 550. And yet the Pipeline program seems to have been transformative for this little-known, remote college, which has in the past struggled with retention and daunting financial challenges. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10