ACllaemy program
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In fact, of the study .
to cted by WSU psychology
proll Cary Lichtm.n, Alan
B Joel Aacr indicate
AfricaD-Ameri 0
fiDiah' scbool • ... e
IM2iIRel of 3.0 or bcttct
are . . more likely to
drop out of college than th
o comp e high school with
GP As lower than 3.0.
. b if things go planned, 60
Wayne State incoming fresh-
en, 0 could be at a ris of
dropping out of college, will
recei a boost through a new
program designed to increase
their chances of successfully
completing school
The Summer Academy and
Skills Self Enrichment Program
(SASEP) at WSU is one of only
a dful in the country that tar-
ge de whohavebeen d-
mitted to college under
regular dmissio policy.
At Wayne State, the normal
dmis ·0 procedure requires
uden to h ve a high school
cumulative grade point average
of at 2.75 on a 4.0 scale. Stu-
dents m also have an Acr
com . e score of 21 d
SAT composite of 850.
e program, funded with a
$75,000 grant from the Michigan
Department of Labor under its
Michigan Youth Corps Blue
Ribbon Project, was developed
a direct re ult of the WSU
_ study. During the period
tudied , orne 57 percent of
Afric n-American students
who entered WSU dropped out
before graduating .
. According to Murdic
Coleman, who chairs the
SASEP Task Force, the
program was constructed under
the premise that a number of
factors other that academic
achievement influence a
student's decision to drop out of
college. Those factors, he says,
are often difficult to pinpoint.
"We know what many of the
solutions re," says Coleman,
who is director of the university
Computing Center, "but the
source of the retention prob em
is more difficult to determine.·
Participating students were
recruited by WSU based on test
re and high school pre para-
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