Confrontations have arisen between local communities and universities involved in molecular biology research. The situation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is described in which citizens have opposed work undertaken at Harvard and MIT. (LBH)

The purpose of this article is to give a brief, general description of Empire State College, in question and answer form, in order that the counseling profession can gain additional information about this innovative approach to higher education. (Author)

Reports on the positive results of a study in India to determine whether wealthy students were capable of being educated for social awareness and social change. (Author)

Briefly presents the higher education system in England for guidance in innovative experimentation in selected institutions in India. (Author/PG)

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…

Describes the New York Heart Association's experimental program aimed at evaluating a method of developing physicians disciplined by research and competent both as teachers and in the care of patients (clinical scientists). (Author)

Describes an experimental teaching project at the University of Southern California Law School that emphasizes the lawyering process, the lawyer/client relationship, the decisions-processes of the lawyer, and aspects of preventive law. (Author/PG)

Describes a workshop at the Center for Humanistic Education which stressed the development of the communication skills needed for interpersonal relationships, and generally sought ways in which classrooms and colleges might be humanized. Author and others are attempting to put these suggestions into practice at Bronx Community College. (Author/DR)

An experimental center for interdisciplinary study of international relations. (Editor)

The article states that significant social change does not take shape in experimental colleges but in the community colleges and state universities. (IR)

College has done some important things for our country--many of them unsuspected and underrecognized. Colleges have provided, unwittingly, a social laboratory for experiment with new and diverse styles of living--experiments that improve the society at large. (Author)

The author discusses his experiences in a black college and a graduate program at M.I.T., and how his career goals changed with his experiences. (IRT)

Traditional psychotherapy, individual or group, never thoroughly resolves issues of perceived culpability, positive identification with other survivors, grief, or low self-esteem. To address this issue, a weekend retreat was designed that joins adult and adolescent women who were sexually abused as children. The tremendous success of this modality…