Based on experience with a simplified admissions concept, Southern Illinois University is satisfied that the admissions process has been made easier for prospective students, high school counselors, and admissions staff. The computer does not make decisions regarding admission of a student, but reduced work loads for everyone concerned. (Author)

Describes a three-day program called "Senior Citizen Celebration Days: A Festival of Education and the Arts" sponsored by the University of Nebraska. Problems involved in planning and developing the program, benefits to older people, the university, and the community, and evaluation of the festival are discussed. (Author)

For middle-class parents pinched by rising college costs, a tuition tax credit has irresistible appeal--and the idea's time has apparently come in Congress, where two separate bills are racing for passage. President Carter, who rejects the tax-credit approach as expensive and inequitable, countered with a plan of his own. Describes all three plans…

Orienteering, a Scandinavian sport that has recently become popular in the United States, combines outdoor adventure, practical skills, physical fitness and fun. Here it is used to help young students develop survival skills using a compass. (Author/RK)

The process of making cloth gives children new insights and new skills. (Editor)

The selection process described in this article is intended to help meet California's needs for bicultural-bilingual counselors by assessing and giving credit for knowledge and skills related to multicultural counseling without establishing separate admission criteria for minority and nonminority applicants. (Author)

Instead of removing differences based on wealth, the state distributions and the local differences are being confounded by changing educational needs prompted by declining enrollments. (Author/IRT)

The new state aid formula implemented in 1974-75 resulted in little real change in the allocation of state resources to local school districts. (Author/IRT)

The article describes a program to help rural secondary students identified as emotionally and/or mildly mentally handicapped. (CL)

Continuing education programs operate year-round at hundreds of colleges and universities, and most focus soberly on solid academic subjects, especially in the summer. The author describes some of the courses being taught throughout the United States. (Author/RK)

Barriers to adult career change are identified and a five-county regional learning service using paraprofessionals is described. Results in working with more than 200 adults making career changes are reported. (Author)

This article discusses the initial development tasks that greet the student making the transition from school to college. A three-session, structured group program is outlined for helping the new student meet these tasks systematically rather than haphazardly. (Author)

This paper examines the need and the context for alternative living arrangements for older persons, and describes some recent attempts to devise new family arrangements for the elderly. Particular attention is focused upon Share-A-Home in Florida, a "family" of nonrelated senior adults who share their own household expenses. (Author)