The purposes of this project were (1) to conduct a follow-up study of the first fifty graduates of the External High School Diploma Program at Waukesha County (Wisconsin) Technical Institute in order to ascertain program strengths, weaknesses and impact; (2) to conduct a follow-up study of program terminations and identify reasons for…

Personal contacts students have with their tutors through the telephone tutoring system established at the Open Learning Institute, British Columbia, Canada, were investigated with completing and noncompleting students. Attention was directed to the frequency of contact with tutors and supportive behaviors tutors extend. For the 118 students, the…

Papers were presented on these subcategories of the theme of conflicting pressures in postsecondary education: privacy and confidentiality; program analysis, goals, and outcomes; planning, research, and modeling; financing and resource allocation; faculty; and students. Individual topics addressed include: student-faculty interaction; student…