ERIC ED066152: The High-Risk Student, the Community College and the Church as Advocate.

by: ERIC

Publication date: 1972-05

Topics: ERIC Archive, Church Role, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Institutional Role, School Role, Two Year Colleges, Springer, J.

Collection: ericarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

This paper focuses on high-risk students and the challenge they present to the community college. The goals of the community college are analyzed and the problems encountered in reaching those goals are discussed. A summary of two workshops held in Chicago entitled "Long Range Results-Academic Supports for the Collegiate Black and Poor," and "Innovations in Recruiting the Culturally Different" is included in the appendix. The question of whether the church can and should make a commitment in terms of time, energy, and funds to change the odds concerning the high-risk student in the community junior college is discussed. (RG)