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Show The Broad Ax September 1975 Page 17 PROJECT ONE HUNDRED UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT Project One Hundred is a four year : | college level program designed to identify 100 innerPo fie o city and parochial high school graduates each year. These Students. have high academic poOve qs. tential but, for financial and/or achievement reasons, would otherwise be unable to attend wets’ the University of Detroit or other institutions of higher learning. The unique feature of the program. distinguishing it from “high risk™ programs conducted by other universities. is that Project One Hundred provides more than admission with financial assistance. The overall orientation of the Project is designed to provide not only the financial assistance but also the academic and counseling assistance so desperately needed by these students to greatly increase the probabil ity of their being graduated from the University of Detroit within a four-year period: | . | The socio-economic conditions existing in the inner-city of Detroit tend to discourage high school graduates from attending colleges and universities. Poverty and other negative environmental factors have psychological repercussions which are. most devastating to the disadvantaged student: and these same factors often prevent many such students from even considering attendance at college. The goals and objectives of Project One Hundred are designed to come to grips with these psychological and educational problems. | 7 | : Summer Orientation Program The initial stage of the program assistance for the Project One of academic Hundred students is a six-week summer session which has been inaugurated in order to provide students with remedial assistance as needed and to give them a realistic perception of the academic standards and expectations of the University of Detroit so that the transition from high school to the University might be accomplished with the greatest ? possible ease and success. ; Students are enrolled in regular college classes f as well as special study seminars. The purpose of the study seminars is to enrich the instructional level of the class and to provide the students with additional enrichment material as well as any remedial or assignment assistance. Guidance and Counseling Program counseling center. During is not confined the summer to the counseling orientation counseling program, students engage in individual and group counseling. Special emphasis is also placed upon realistic career selection. Vocational and career counseling are based upon the students’ specific aptitudes, abilities and career goals. * ia their academic development, personal growth and adjustment to college life so that they will be better prepared to achieve their educational and career goals. : Project One Hundred counselors perform a wide range of guidance services that include personal and group counseling, academic advis- | ing, vocational. and career counseling. Counselors also play an important role in the identification. recruitment, and admission of students into the program. Project counselors exercise an “outreach approach’ to facilitate the adjustment of the students to the college environment: therefore. sacecreceenritcoreeeogetr—n Through the guidance and counseling program. Project One Hundred students are assisted in |
