Discusses the effects of the open door policy on education, and sketches a picture of the kinds of students who are attending the composition courses offered by junior colleges. (RB)

The problems and future of university adult education and the importance of adult education to the educational and social progress of the United Kingdom provide the bases of this report. The Universities Council for Adult Education is currently made up of representatives from 39 colleges and universities in the United Kingdom. Following a…

In 1976, Indiana University began offering a General Studies degree to open degree opportunities to those who are not necessarily able to return to the campus and meet residency requirements for other degrees. As a cornerstone of the program, a flexible admission policy was included for those 21 years or older. (JOW)

Comments on the disadvantages facing writing teachers in open admissions colleges. (RB)

Describes Ontario's only university with an open registration requiring no previous academic credentials. (Author)

Community colleges must deal with the academic weakness of students upon admission as well as their competency at graduation. Describes a program at North Iowa Area Community College designed to help students see life as a whole, gain basic skills needed in the world of work, and produce grades reflecting the attainment of those skills. (JOW)

Acton (Massachusetts) Public Schools' open enrollment experience shows that a system can develop a common curriculum while allowing individual schools and teachers considerable instructional latitude. Confronting open enrollment pitfalls such as intensified competition, pressures for curriculum standards, and enrollment dilemmas helped this…

Explores the racialized discourses surrounding basic writing students by using the notion of education as "white property." Shows how students are racialized as "minorities" despite the significant numbers of whites in the program. Argues open-admissions students are discursively coded as non-white. Contends that racialization…

Study of school choice in the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, finds increased stratification of schools according to race, ethnicity, and income created by open-enrollment procedures. Per-pupil costs and money raised through fund raising were higher in choice schools, as was student achievement. Recommends actions to limit the…

The prediction that among male college students, the relationship between test anxiety and college achievement would be greater for socially mobile than for socially stable students is not borne out in this study at Lehman College. (Author/JH)

This profile is the second in a series documenting the experience with the uses of technology in higher education. A look at how the Open University employs media to serve a large, dispersed student body may benefit others who plan to expand or modify their own uses of educational technology. (Author)

The Thematic Studies Program (TSP), a successful open admissions plan for 125 students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is characterized by a curriculum design interconnecting the humanities and social sciences, an emphasis on group process, and individualization of standards. A teacher in the program describes her experiences. (JT)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.