· * the development of faculty\staff training to better understand minority populations.
· With Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans continuing to be under-represented in higher education the professions, it has created a national urgency to enlarge the pool of well-prepared minority students in order to improve the productive capacity of the calf the nation within an increasingly competitive global economy.
· Institutions can help eliminate barriers to retention by addressing the issues surrounding academic preparedness of minority students, exploring the extent of financial assistance to those students desiring an education, and fostering a positive educational climate. There appears to be consensus that successful efforts to improve minority participation in higher education require a systematic approach proceeding: from accepted policies to which the Highest levels of institutional leadership subscribe.
· Retention rates can be improved--and the cost, time and effort may be considerably less than administrators fear. By implementing the critical factors that make retention work--such as positive faculty relations, community relations, leadership, the organization of services into a unit, orientations, student support classes and series recruitment planning, academic intervention services, campus climate, and award ceremonies--institutions of higher education can help retain minority students now.
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