The Colorado College plan divides the academic year into blocks of three and one-half weeks each, separated by breaks of four and one-half days. The results of this schedule are closer contact with students and faculty and more intense study. (Author/PG)

Innovation implies a novel reordering of resources within a coherent process which leads to an identifiably different result. (Author)

A thoughful scholar discusses the founding of a remarkable new learning community to aid mankind in facing the future. (Editor)

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

Discusses how dire, long-term financial pressures for both public and private colleges and universities could lead to a fundamental restructuring of their organizational and learning systems around the most promising innovations in teaching and learning. Offers three organizing principles and seven transformative actions. (EV)

Why is it so hard for colleges and universities to change? Why do even innovative institutions that invest considerable time and effort in attempts to improve performance often fall back into long-established patterns? Why is the whole of educational innovation often less than the sum of the parts? Consider three colleges and universities.…

Describes the Navy's Program for Afloat College Education (PACE) administered by Chapman College for Western Pacific ships. (PG)

Maharishi International University, a 4-year liberal arts college with a student body of under 500, is a university dedicated to the propagation of transcendental meditation. (Author/PG)

Discusses the Academic Conference held each year at Southern Methodist University to implement innovations into the university structure. (PG)

Discusses the work of the Panel on Alternate Approaches to Graduate Education. (PG)

Two graduates of Hampshire College discuss their experiences at the innovative institution and its future chances to resist conventional molds. (Author/PG)

Discusses the new relationship in higher education between the university and the "free" university community that surrounds it. (PG)

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

Describes Prescott College in Arizona where students undergo rigorous outdoor exercise in addition to challenging academic experiences. (HS)

Constant change and innovation is the major theme of the main campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and its network of campuses, field centers, and widespread job and foreign study linkages. (HS)