Special Programs for Special Students I. Providing Assistance to Nontraditional Students Catherine Hurt Middlecamp and Elizabeth Kean Chemistry Tutorial Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison. Wi 53706 Failures are exnensive in both human and economic terms. We wish to challenge the common assumption that failure is either acceptable or inevitable for particular groups of students. The causes of failure are often thought to lie with the students. Thev do not have the necessarv background: . thev" cannot reason properly, they are lazy; or they are prevented bv-nersonal circumstances from workine hard enough. . We believe that failure is not the simplematter thatit might to academic failure. Instead. amear. There is no sinele .. . nattern . inilure dcl~vnd> on interxtiun.; among students, cuntcnt. nnd ttachinr a \ r s t e ~F:ic~~lt\, ~ ~ . m d dudent< huth vu~urihuteI
