Word: forded
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Neither the Ford Foundation nor anyone else is proposing that community colleges drop the impressive array of vocational courses that they have developed over the years. Indeed, the career training offered by the schools is considered more important than ever in the face of persistently high unemployment and increased industrial demand for workers with technical skills. But something clearly had to be done to improve academic instruction. All too often, students who do transfer to four-year colleges are poorly prepared. The University of California, for instance, has had 30% of its transfer students drop out before...
...Most community colleges do not even coordinate course requirements with the universities that accept their graduates. Thus many transfer students are dismayed to discover, after completing two years at a community college, that few of their credits will count toward a bachelor's degree. Says Alison Bernstein, the Ford Foundation program officer who is directing the new project: "We want to help ensure that community-college students will have the proper credentials to be accepted at four-year institutions and will be able to handle the work when they get there...
...where the community-college budget was cut this year by $45 million, or 10%, the 27 schools are discontinuing 4,500 classes and dropping 648 of 4,019 full-time faculty members. Even vocational courses are being thinned out on some campuses. Los Angeles Harbor College, one of the Ford recipients, has had to eliminate nearly 40% of its occupational classes because of budget cutbacks. Harbor and nearby Compton Community College, another Ford winner, will use their grants to counsel transferring students on the four-year degree programs available to them. In Phoenix, South Mountain Community College was recognized...
...colleges singled out by Ford are in urban areas and have large enrollments of low-income and minority students. The foundation is particularly concerned about improving their chances for academic success; nationwide more than half of all black and Hispanic college students attend two-year institutions. Ford picked programs that are encouraging students to set their goals high: La Guardia Community College in New York City, for example, is helping its students prepare for Vassar...
About one-third of the 10,383 students at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va., another Ford recipient, are black students seeking a four-year degree are getting help in filling out college applications and financial-aid forms and in selecting courses from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students...