Word: outreaching
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...freshman year ill prepared, colleges pay the price. Today half of all college students must take at least one remedial course, at an annual cost of $1 billion to the nation's public universities. And with the recent ban on affirmative-action programs in Texas and California, outreach is no longer optional. Universities in those states now go door to door not only to recruit minorities but also to ensure that they complete all the necessary course work and paperwork to get admitted. And with many public schools complaining that their new teachers are poorly trained, K-16 partnerships give...
...Maryland's university system, educators credit K-16 outreach for a drop in remediation rates and a rise in SAT scores and minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...
Inevitably, of course, it got personal. Gore was steamed by Bush's televised declaration of victory the night Harris certified the election, Eskew says. "He thought it was minimalist in its healing and outreach. And the moves that they made to start the transition, I don't think he felt they were necessarily playing by the same set of rules." What Gore never expressed, aides say, was the kind of recrimination and self-doubt they had heard from him in other difficult times of the near past--during the campaign-finance scandals of 1996, Bill Clinton's impeachment, the dark...
...quote former IOP Director Alan K. Simpson, we do not ask people to take a "saliva purity test." Republican candidates for national office this past year, including President-elect George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), sought to broaden the outreach of the party to include those who previously may not have identified with the GOP. The Republican Party and the HRC do not and will not condition acceptance on any sort of litmus test. Our organization's goal is to motivate, educate and inspire students in the Republican cause, not to draw battle lines and divide students...
...Publicly, we chose not to present ourselves in that light," Kelly says. "We're heading in the direction of a more positive outreach group. We're awfully upset that final clubs have this nasty reputation on campus, and we hope for our members to be outstanding members of the community...