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

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

Programs have been designed and counseling services have been set up to meet the special needs of adult women returning to school. (KE)

Ohio's program, now in its third year, of enrolling prisoners in external college courses is described. About 12,000 men and women are enrolled, with as many as 25 percent qualified for college work. (LBH)

An assistant president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union discusses the "proper" relations between workers' education and higher education, between nontraditional and traditional learning, between the class struggle and the classroom. Mutual benefits between higher education and the unions are cited. (LBH)

Schools do not exist in a vacuum and neither do people. That fact is propelling the U.S. toward a national policy on lifelong learning. Provisions of the Senate Lifelong Learning Bill are included. (LBH)

Bergen Community College's Center for Public Media Programming produces courses broadcast by CBS stations around the country and which are offered for credit by other community colleges. The courses, called "Summer Semester," are offered to students unable to attend classes. They consist of half-hour lectures or discussions. (MLW)

Nontraditional programs have fought and won victories because their cause seemed worthy. Now it is time, the author says, to consider how the merger of work and study and off-campus activities is distinctive. (Editor/JT)

The increasing use of nonaccredited educational contractors by accredited colleges is addressed. Some of the issues discussed include consumer complaints, the quality of services provided, awarding of credits, and accredition concerns. (JMD)

The College Venture Program, a Boston-based consortium of New England liberal arts colleges, annually helps place hundreds of student clients--"stopouts" or "interruptees"--in temporary jobs while they contemplate their future college plans. Counseling services are offered and a job bank is maintained. (LBH)

A two-year college program on a high desert ranch that combines traditional liberal arts with strenuous physical work aims to develop humility, service, leadership, and a wide range of practical skills. Most graduates have gone on to graduate study and leadership positions in society. (MSE)

A review of George B. Vaughan's introductory article for the series "New Directions for Community Colleges" is presented, including summaries of critical works on community colleges and pieces by authors who reexamine their own criticisms. Observations of "outsiders" are seen as essential to community college leaders. (MLW)

Colleges faced with declining enrollments are cultivating a new crop of students--7-to-14-year-olds--who attend college after school, on Saturday mornings, and during the summer. Some programs are described, including College for Kids at the College of Marin and Cornell University. (MLW)

Washington has come to recognize the growing educational force of lifelong learning across the country. This growth and the current status of federal legislative efforts, including the establishment of the Lifelong Learning Project and Senator Edward Brooke's plans for a Senate lifelong learning financing bill, are described. (LBH)

The loose smorgasbord distribution requirements and free electives of the '60s, have given way to more proscribed requirements and core programs. General education is a response to a need to reaffirm the connectedness among people. The agenda for general education is to teach those common experiences, relationships, and ethical concerns. (MLW)