Describes the new innovative college recently added to the Washington State System. (HS)

Lack of adequate planning and internal cooperation caused the death of an experimental college. (HS)

Thomas Jefferson College, the first cluster college of Michigan's Grand Valley State Colleges, has become stable and successful in just 4 years. (Author/HS)

Heliotrope, Orpheus, and Communiversity, San Francisco's three free universities, offer curricula with combinations of alchemy, magic, Volkswagen repairs, options in education, dance, conversational Mandarin, basic plumbing, and brain wave experiences. (Author/PG)

The adult degree program (ADP) at Goddard College in Vermont is a nontraditional program for students over 26 who once started but never completed work toward their BA degree. Goddard offers parttime study, with no grades, required courses, texts, lecture halls, or residency requirements. (Author/PG)

Common College serves the San Francisco bay area with an enrollment of excollege students and housewives. This experimental school makes connections between students' interests and opportunities by arranging classes, tutorials, and apprenticeships. It stresses work, travel, and time alone. (Author/PG)

Financially self-sustaining, the New Resources Program (NRP) of the College of New Rochelle in New York offers a nontraditional liberal arts curriculum with no majors and with campuses throughout New York city. (PG)

Hiring and maintaining a qualified interdisciplinary faculty is proving to be a great difficulty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. (HS)