Discusses proposals to modify or eliminate the Federal Government's reliance on voluntary accreditation agencies in determining eligibility of post secondary education programs for federal aid. Analyzes statutory language and legislative intent to determine the Commissioner of Education's authority to modify eligibility criteria. (JF)

Argues that correspondence courses offer an alternative to school district consolidation. Contends they are an educationally sound and economically feasible method of increasing students' opportunities for both academic and vocational training. (Author)

The professional school is caught between a social need to grant preferred admission to disadvantaged minority applicants--and the risks that go with reverse discrimination. (DM)

Compares and contrasts norm-referenced and criterion-referenced concepts which exemplify the transition from relative to absolute standards of educational evaluation. (Author/RK)

Suggests training for law students for different types of legal careers in order to promote efficiency and higher quality of legal services to the public and provide more satisfying career choices for students. Utilization of paraprofessionals is discouraged because of the nature of the law profession. (LP)

Analysis of student and administrative attitudes toward grading systems reveals preference for pass/fail grading to letter-grading or numerical system. These results and inadequacies of letter grade system lead author to question why approximately 50 percent of 85 medical schools sampled persist in using it. (Author/LP)

A report on initial results of the open admissions policy (City University of New York) concludes that significant numbers of high risk students can make progress toward a degree. Program modifications are suggested as a response to the learning needs of these students. (Author/CJ)

As community colleges open their doors to a wider range of students a variety of programs must be designed to develop basic skills in underachievers. (Editor/IR)

Higher education, in this economic recession, faces the culling out of inadequately qualified professors and accompanying student dissent in determination of faculty competence. (IR)

There is a marked gap in the thinking and behavior of today's freshmen and upperclassmen. (IR)

Address to Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, Jan. 1970) points out ways that the liberal arts colleges must be prepared to teach effectively the new post-industrial culture. (IR)

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).