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Virginia Commonwealth University

1993

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Increasing The Academic Pool Of Minority Students For Higher Education, Diane J. Simon Jan 1993

Increasing The Academic Pool Of Minority Students For Higher Education, Diane J. Simon

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The review of the literature on "Increasing the Academic Pool of Minority Students for Higher Education" was conducted in response to a request from the Virginia Department of Education R.F.P. #92-3 Team. The paper examines the factors that have an impact on increasing the number of minority students prepared to attend and succeed in college and reviews a number of successful programs, many of which are supported by business and industry. In addition to these two basic areas of inquiry, the R.F.P. #92-3 Team requested that the problem of increasing the minority student pool for college be examined in the …