SOLVING THE PROBATION PUZZLEA Student Affirmative Action Program
As part of the campus concern with retention, California State University at Long Beach developed several intervention strategies to work with students on academic probation. The Student Affirmative Action Program designed their program components based on an identification of key factors contributing to academic difficulties. Findings suggest that students who participated in this mandatory, long-term, comprehensive program made far more significant and steady progress compared with control populations who utilized other services or who did not participate in any campus program.
Contributor Notes
*GENEVIEVEM. RAMIREZ, Ph.D., is acting director of the Learning Assistance Center at California State University, Long Beach, professor of Mexican American Studies, and former coordinator of Student Affirmative Action.
REBECCA J. EVANS, M.S., is coordinator of Supplemental Instruction and Tutorial Services at CSULB, former retention coordinator of Student Affirmative Action and assistant director of Academic Advising, and was a speaker at the NACADA national conference in Seattle.
