Describes University Year for ACTION (UYA) program in which students are awarded a full year's academic credit for enrolling in off-campus antipoverty programs. (HS)

Analytical view of a major interdisciplinary experimental program. (Editor)

Nontraditional programs have fought and won victories because their cause seemed worthy. Now it is time, the author says, to consider how the merger of work and study and off-campus activities is distinctive. (Editor/JT)

The College Venture Program, a Boston-based consortium of New England liberal arts colleges, annually helps place hundreds of student clients--"stopouts" or "interruptees"--in temporary jobs while they contemplate their future college plans. Counseling services are offered and a job bank is maintained. (LBH)

Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)

A law firm, Equal Rights Advocates, Inc., specializing in sex discrimination cases, has become a magnet for law students in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is involved in a cooperative program with area universities in which a new model for clinical teaching is offered. Fifteen students each semester spend at least two days a week with the firm.…

Brazil's Project Rondon, an educational program aimed at broadening a student's education and to assist in the development of the nation's most poverty-stricken areas, is described. Teaching the poor to meet their own needs is the guiding philosophy. (MLW)

The transformation of a rural Vermont preparatory school to a coeducational two-year college emphasizing work skills and education about natural resource management is described. Offerings include agriculture, land use, communications, wildlife management, an outdoor survival course, and shorter courses offered to high school students. (MSE)