Free schools as an educational form are remarkably similar to the best educational pattern of the culturally more mature countries of the Western world. This similarity should be recognized by U.S. leaders for what it signifies--that free schools are the opposite of disruptive and radical education, and represent the true university. (Editor/LBH)

Discussed residence as a tool of higher education, a tool for humanizing and personalizing school systems, through which students learn educational values. (Author/RK)

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)

Author describes an experimental unit, the Utopia Project, given in the College of Basic Studies at Boston University, and shows how it works with examples of actual projects undertaken by students. (DR)

Launched with $25 million of support and a "swinging" plan of educational innovation, the new experimental college on the Amherst campus begins its second year to mixed reviews. (Editor/IR)

The philosophy behind the free university emphasizes independent learning and disapproves of traditional curricula. In general, this educational effort has failed beacuse of its inability to compete with established institutions of higher learning. (CK)

Western Governors University (WGU) was initiated by 15 western governors in response to perceived needs in the marketplace and as a supplement to traditional institutions. WGU features competency-based credentials (certificates and degrees) rather than course-based programs; distance learning; focus on nontraditional, working students; third-party…

A new combined high school-college program which awards Bachelor's degrees to students who have completed six years of integrated study following the eighth grade is described. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (Author/DE)

Covers camping out for credit; racing for credit; choosing from the seven "schools" in Quincy (Illinois) High School; and developing the Colorado College block scheduling plan under which students take only one course at a time. (Author)

This document, reporting on a visit to the University Without Walls (UWW) of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, opens with a definition of the Union. When the Union applied for Correspondent Status in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, it was agreed that the decision should be based on the…

This booklet describes Governors State University, an open university responding to the needs of junior/community college graduates and others working towards a baccalaureate and master's degree. Emphasis is placed on the concept of the open university, planning of the open university, who are the students and how they influence the planning…

This document describes a model (the PASS Model) that allows for universities to develop programs and facilities that are of mutual benefit to the university and to the community of which it is a part. The University of Pennsylvania has developed this particular model, and it is implemented in the form of the West Philadelphia Free School. The…

Despite social and educational change and greatly reduced visibility, the cluster college concept remains in use in many institutions, in both the federated colleges and subcollege cluster models, and in some cases substantially changed in form. (MSE)

The author states that what we have not done, and what the lessons of the past demand that we do, is to create a curriculum and an intellectual environment that stimulate both teachers and students to think about the larger dimensions of human affairs. (CT)

The Learning Exchange Network is explored to show how it (1) takes advantage of the strong points of the previous models for self-directed learners; (2) counters the liabilities of the previous models; (3) serves the smaller populations of semirural areas; and (4) includes an implementation plan. The practicality of the network is discussed. (CT)