Given the enrollment problems now facing most universities, higher education must begin to remove the barriers facing transferring students and accept transience as part of American Life. Colleges must develop a systematic, well-articulated design, which the public can clearly understand. (Author)

Explores how one school district began a comprehensive guidance program, bringing its counseling system into the present with an eye toward the future. Describes the first three years of the program and how it has helped guidance counselors to become more effective and more sophisticated in helping students move from high school to college. (NB)

Reviews the importance of assessment in placing students in two-year college composition courses and describes the development of the objective English Qualifying Examination used at Northern Virginia Community College. Includes sample test items. (MKM)