Suggestions offered for planning a successful volunteer program center on setting goals, defining roles, and timing. Areas identified for volunteer use are admissions, identifying and soliciting fellow alumni, alumni relations, and in program planning for such events as Parent's Weekend. (LC)

Twenty-four predictions are made about trends in college fund raising in the 1980s, considering such factors as volunteers, new legislation at all levels, person-to-person fund raising, institutional leadership, development staffing, inflation, distribution of wealth, recordkeeping, alumni, corporate support, and athletics. (MSE)

Fifteen different institutions offer suggestions for managing small shops by: long range planning, setting priorities, organizing and systematizing, defining staff regimen, using outside help, and finding reinforcement through feedback and freely offered ideas. (MLW)