Shawn MacDonald, Director of the Women's Center, Equity Coordinator
Northland Community and Technical College
1101 Highway One East
Thief River Falls, MN 56701
1-800-959-6282 or (218) 938-4505
> Marta,
> I have been working for the last three years with the local community
> college on a project to 1) understand who flunks Developmental Ed courses
> and 2) why. What we have learned concerns how underrepresented groups make
> it or don't make it in junior colleges, and how we can and must begin to
> change the statistics.
> We discovered that minority men and women failed, dropped out, left
> for awhile, etc. at a much higher rate than whites, even when social class
> seemed fairly equal.
> The Developmental Ed division is now working on curriculum and teacher
> training to change these facts.
>
> Ann Nihlen