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From Staff Reports
Freshmen are no longer beanie-bearing
victims of campus persecution. The
shrinking freshman population has led to
competition among colleges for freshmen.
Many colleges are accepting students
representing a wide range of academic
skills. They are trying to attract and encourage
academic achievement with
counseling services and orientation courses.
"High school graduates should learn they
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and many services offered to aid freshmen
are resulting from the intense college
competition," said Professor John Gardner,
director of USC's recent Freshman Year
Experience National Conference.
MANY NEW freshmen benefits were
presented by representatives of 76 colleges
and universities at USC's national conference.
If high school students are to take adA.
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vantage ui uus siiuauon, tney need to learn
about the services being offered and include
them in their college selection criteria, said
Gardner, head of USC's freshman orientation
course program.
"The extent of these services reflects a
college's genuine interest in freshmen,"
Gardner said. "High school counselors can
play an important role in informing their
students of these services, and many college
educators would be happy to assist them."
Budget proposal (
College Press Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? President Reagan's
college budget, released last month, proposes fa
cuts in student aid than previous years, but do
elimination of three popular aid programs.
The budget also asks Congress to create a ne
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The increasing emphasis on freshmen
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longer have the baby-boom supply of teenagers
that enabled them to set elitist
standards ? picking and choosing among
overwhelming numbers of applications.
With the market in their favor, colleges
were not concerned with helping freshmen
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BUT NOW, as the number of high school
graduates dwindles and is predicted to
decline sharply by 1990, higher education
administrators must face this threatening
reality and change their attitudes.
Discussion among 350 educators at the
national conference focused on freshman
needs and survival problems. Freshmen are
assets, and colleges are anxious to retain
them.
Academic orientation courses to help
students learn about how a university
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earned academic credit through testing,
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guides, special living and academic
divisions for freshmen, academic and study
skill development courses and counseling
services were addressed.
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