The role of research in higher education is analyzed with a history of how it achieved its status and an analogy of what circumstances must surround its continuance. (HS)

Report on Bowling Green University's Little College course called The Making and Manipulation of Images. (HS)

The SUM (Single-Unit Module) Project is being conducted at the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University to explore what would happen to students, faculty, and the administration of the University, if students were presented with a quasi-programmed set of instructional materials and allowed to proceed entirely at…

Focuses on future trends in postsecondary education and their implications for institutional planners and researchers. The four projections are: increased enrollment of the nontraditional student, rise of alternative educational institutions, decreased undergraduate vocational preparation, and diminution of compulsory education. (Editor/PG)

Describes courses developed on the reality world" of the student, focusing on student experience instead of the traditional subject matter. (IR)

The author comments on Jonathan R. Warren's article, External Degrees: Coping with the Problems of Credit. (PG)

The author comments on Cyril O. Houle's article, The Potential Audience for the External Degree. (PG)

The author comments on Barbara H. Mickey's article, Designing the External Degree Program. (PG)