The purpose of this study is to examine a small number of minority retention programs in the North, South and Mid-West in order to determine why African-American students at predominantly-white institutions of higher education continue to face greater social and academic adjustment problems than their white counterparts. The literature supports the researcher's contention that the needs of many African-American students enrolled in various colleges and universities across the country, are not well met. While some institutions have established retention programs (some more successful that others), many more have not. Institutions of higher education, this study concludes, should be required to not only examine the needs of African-American students, but also to implement programs to address the needs. This comparative analysis, uses a historical framework to examine a few of the retention program that are successfully addressing a significant number of the educational needs of African-American students at peer institutions. Programs examined are: The Committee for the Collegiate Education Of Blacks and Other Minority Students (CCEBMS) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Academic Program (CAP) University of Connecticut, Storrs Connecticut, The African-American Student Partnership Program (AASP) and the Minority Student Access Network program (MSAN) University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado and the Academic Support and Assistant Program (ASAP) and the Promoting Academically Successful Students (PASS) University of South Carolina, Columbia South Carolina.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8614 |
| Date | 01 January 1993 |
| Creators | Clemmons, Doris |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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