Improved Instruction in the Junior College: Key to Equal Opportunity.
The national commitment to equality of higher educational opportunity has created many complex problems, at the academic center of which is the need for significant modifications in traditional methods of college-level instruction. Sweeping changes in instructional methodology are necessary to accommodate not only the educational aspirations but the fundamental and pervasive learning problems of large and growing segments of college populations which are obviously not composed of traditional college-level students. Otherwise, ''equal opportunity" may prove to be merely another illusion for the very students (i.e., low-achieving, minority group, socioeconomically deprived, culturally disadvantaged, handicapped) for whom it should have the greatest meaning. Many colleges have recently made dramatic efforts to restructure both their curricular programs and their student services for academically disenfranchised students. Their laudable aim is to bridge the gap between emerging educational