This article describes a three-hour group meeting in which an orientation session is combined with a selection interview for applicants to a counselor education program. The faculty members give information about the program and the university. There is a group discussion period and then individual interviews. (Author/JEL)

New developments in college admission and student educational financing are discussed, including high demand for selective and expensive colleges, increased chances of admission at less prestigious but equally high quality schools, increased institutional student aid, and other changes in aid packaging and options. (MSE)

In 1999, Florida implemented the One Florida Initiative, a plan to end race-conscious decision making in employment, contracting, and higher education. The proposal for higher education was to replace race-conscious admissions with the Talented 20 Program, a policy that in theory would increase access for underrepresented students without…

This study investigated the potential impact on enrollment of raising academic admissions requirements for first-semester freshmen at Stephen F. Austin University (Texas). Data collected in spring 1998 included three years of enrollment and admissions data from SFA's admissions office, 1995-96 statewide high school graduate and individual school…

The article shows how the domination of nonnative institutions serving indigenous peoplein the Canadian north can be conceptualized and how it is a developmental problem. Attention is focused on the conditions and events leading to the introduction and sudden collapse of a producers cooperative in the ethnically complex community of Fort Rae,…

Empirical content is given to the concept of an organization set and two related hypotheses are tested on data concerning the competition of colleges and universities for new students. (Author/KM)

Describes a tri-city program, Project Gifted, which was designed to meet the special needs of gifted and talented elementary children in three Rhode Island school systems. (Author/RK)

Describes an experimental program begun by San Diego City Schools for students identified as gifted, who gain further opportunity to develop their potential. (RK)

The author contends that a system which provides the individual with multiple methods of financing his education to increase his educational options will find the system open, diversified and responsive. (Author)

This 16-year-old top level leader grant program offers selected mature men from 40 countries a view of professional, political and social facets of American life through unrestricted travel, seminars, interviews with leaders in government, management, education and industry and visits to private homes. (IR)

Discusses the experiences of two T Groups who, after having worked together, separate and select a leader for each group. During tests, these leaders are exchanged resulting in different reactions. (EK)

The author discusses the significance of class rank and College Board scores in admissions. He also considers whether admissions committees realize that 90 per cent of the students in a certain high school enter college and if they consider these students if grades are replaced with in-depth evaluations. (Author/EK)