Innovative courses and programs at Laney College and Merritt College include encounter groups, job placement, and environmental studies. (MS)

Various instructional and administrative innovations at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, are described, including grading and facultyorientation programs. (MS)

Descriptions of some innovative courses and approaches at Seattle are given, among them vocational, precollege, and language programs. (MS)

Opinions differ as to whether academic advisement should be performed by counselors. The author feels that professional counselors should spend their time helping students with developmental problems. (MS)

A study of speech programs and basic transfer public speaking courses in California reveals a wide range of offerings and enrollments. (MS)

Applying classroom knowledge in actual work situations has become fundamental in Holding Technical Institute's highly successful training program, and has enhanced the skill and success of the Holding graduate. (JO)

Discusses the problems and prospects of technical education in the junior college by citing writers who have pin-pointed the problems to be (1) need for effective guidance, (2) need to build prestige, and (3) need for more and better trained teachers. (GR)

The hospitatlity education program at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute, offering curricula in hotel-motel-restaurant management and culinary technology, is described. (HH)

To meet the immediate needs of the local sawmill industry, Haywood Technical Institute has devloped a program to train sawyers, saw filers, dry-kiln operators, and lumber graders. (HH)

Offers topics for research as a basis for improving the community college. Suggests attention to the following areas: mission, philosophical commitments, institutional management and operations, faculty role, student needs, academic planning, and community services/lifelong education. (DMM)

Explains the advantages of using second-class, nonprofit postage mailings for college publications, rather than third- class mail. Explains the regulations concerning second class mailings. (DMM)