Communitas is a nontraditional, upper-level, 2-year college which centers education around community change. (Author/PG)

This study was undertaken to assess the freshman and sophomore curriculum requirements of engineering schools and to develop guidelines to improve junior college pre-engineering curricula. (BB)

The community-oriented colleges and universities have potential to experiment in a dynamic living-learning environment. This alternative system can do more to respond to the needs of a majority of the people than any traditional institution. (Author)

This document presents a speech by the President of Florida International University concerning the creation of the institution. Florida International is an upper-level college located outside of Miami. The institution has been innovative in its physical structure as well as in its educational philosophy. Located at the site of the abandoned…

In an effort to facilitate student mobility in Massachusetts higher education for two-year college students to the upper division of four-year institutions, the Massachusetts Transfer Review Council initiated a Commonwealth Transfer Compact. The policy statement indicates that an associate degree from any community college signatory to the CTC…

Describes the baccalaureate programs offered by Sangamon State University, an upper-division or "capstone" college, on the Illinois Central College campus in East Peoria. The programs are designed for employed, adult two-year college graduates who cannot leave the East Peoria area to attend a four-year college. (DC)

Efficient articulation from community college to four-year institutions is becoming essential. Some technqiues and effective programs are presented. (Author/BB)

Describes a cooperative program in which two private four-year colleges jointly operate a Coordinate Campus utilizing the staff and resources of each college to serve transfer students from nearby junior colleges. (JG)

Presents the results of a national survey to determine whether enrollment increases are occurring in lower division or exclusively upper division journalism schools, in accredited and nonaccredited sequences, and in two-year or four-year institutions. (RB)

This document presents a brief history of Texas A&I University at Laredo. Following introductory material, the report encompasses community involvement; a review of the planning year including the 1970-71 academic year, the 1971-72 academic year and a summary of institutional priorities, and the 1972-73 academic year with emphasis placed on…

Minnesota Metropolitan State College has recently been established as one of the few upper level colleges (colleges offering only junior, senior and graduate level courses) in the U.S. Just about every aspect of MMSC is unique. (1) Planning and operation of the institution have been simultaneous from the outset. (2) There is only 1 main…

Discusses Richmond College of the City University of New York. (HS)

New College, a private institution in Florida that focused on independent study, has now become an upper-division college of the University of South Florida. The author discusses the administrative and financial difficulties of New College in relating its history. (PG)

Analysis of data from a population of 7,747 upper division university students has shown that the selection of majors in various sequence length categories is disproportionate to the number of programs in each category. The proportion of transfer students selecting majors with longer sequences was significantly smaller than native students.…