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Backs Against the Wall




A report on a series of grants to help urban-oriented colleges and universities improve their undergraduate programs and services for inner-city students.

Cafferty, Pastora San Juan, Spangenburg, Gail.
1983
73 pages


Contents
Foreword
Footnotes
Introduction
Urban-Oriented Colleges and Universities: Characteristics and Problems
What Are the Problems?
General Caveats
Basic Skills and Related Programs and Services
In-School Youth: Miles College and the Birmingham Schools Cooperate
Faculty Development: the Jersey City Case
English As a Second Language: Community Outreach in Hartford
Diagnostic Testing: Strategies in the District of Columbia
Institutional Planning and Cooperation
A Simple Need for Information
A Complex Need for Planning
An Approach to Planning and Assessment in San Francisco
The Benefits of Cooperating: the Boston Model
Concluding Thoughts
Costs And Funding
Institutions: Higher Costs and Underfunding
Students: Aid and Loan Programs
Concluding Thoughts
Inching Away from the Wall: Summary of Recommendations
Basic Skills and Related Programs and Services
Institutional Planning
Learning Research
Institutional Cooperation
Providing Information to Potential Students
Overcoming Funding Problems
Gathering Data About Programs and People
The Immediate Funding Challenge
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix a Ford Foundation Conference Participants (May 1980)
Appendix B Ford Foundation Grants