Experientially-based, independent studies, conducted during the month-long January term at St. Lawrence University, and reactions to them are described. Emphasis is on the conflicts arising from non-structured studies approved by the Department of Geology and Geography. (LBH)

Due to the financial constraints facing Indian education, innovative and noninstitutional methods of imparting instruction must be developed, such as, correspondence courses, continuing education, technical education, and redevelopment of existing resources. (Author/PG)

An experimental program involving historians in the training of history teachers implemented three models for preservice teacher training at the undergraduate level and one and the graduate level. (Author/KM)

Common College serves the San Francisco bay area with an enrollment of excollege students and housewives. This experimental school makes connections between students' interests and opportunities by arranging classes, tutorials, and apprenticeships. It stresses work, travel, and time alone. (Author/PG)

A General Registration academic college was established to provide career and academic planning assistance to undeclared majors. Rationale for establishment was academic survival, enrollment projections, and student retention. The Career-Academic Planning Center offers classes, special advisors, and a career resources library. (Author/KMF)

Discusses an experimental program to test the concept of training students at the Master's level in chemical engineering. Described is a combination of formal university graduate courses and an on-the-job, industrial internship in lieu of a formal research program. (MLH)

The Open Studio as a way of working evolved in an effort to maximize the effectiveness of the artmaking project as a means to increase and deepen consciousness. This method differentiates art from psychotherapy and calls into question the validity of marrying the two experiences. (JPS)

Student learning of macroeconomic principles by computer assisted instruction is compared to student performance by conventional methods. (KM)

After the experience with the first three classes, the M.D. program for Ph.D.s at the University of Miami School of Medicine is analyzed in terms of the backgrounds of students, their motivations toward a medical education, criteria for admission, curriculum, budget, and evaluation of student performance. (Editor)

See CS 703 507 for availability information. (JW)

Describes an arrangement of a laboratory course in biochemistry designed to teach currently used biochemical techniques and then have students apply the procedures in a real research program so as to give students a better understanding of biochemistry. (BR)

This paper overviews the organization, objectives and impact of an experimental interdisciplinary training program at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, for preparing specialists to work with infants and preschool children. (Author/RH)

THREE MAJOR PAPERS WERE PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE--(1) W. HUGH STICKLER DEFINED AN EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE AS AN INSTITUTION WHICH MANIFESTS PERSISTENT COMMITMENT TO A BELIEF THAT HIGHER EDUCATION CAN BE IMPROVED AND WHICH INNOVATES ON A CONTINUING BASIS TO ACHIEVE THAT IMPROVEMENT. HE DESCRIBED 26 CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGES, LISTED…