Criteria or standards for a high-quality, off-campus program are identified by a panel of judges composed of practitioners, administrators, and supervisors. Data were gathered from questionnaires regarding program components, organization, and activities. (LBH)

Four papers presented by psychology faculty members from Clemson University discuss how each person met the need for undergraduates to obtain job preparation in psychology. Topics cover industrial psychology, clinical psychology, teaching of psychology, and an interdisciplinary curriculum. (ND)

Describes a field-biology research project conducted at Coos Bay, Oregon by high school students attending the summer sessions at Terramar Field Science Facility during the summer of 1972. Discusses the value of this type of environmental survey for both the students and the community. (JR)

Describes the national movement toward competency-based and field-centered teacher training programs. Contends that these programs should have great impact on education. (Author/JN)

Description of Vermont Academy's field study program in Jersey City, involving inner city scholarship students and regular (middle class) students working together on urban studies. (JB)

An unusual poverty immersion program that teaches what can't be taught in a classroom. (Editor)

In interpreting data gathered in an administrative internship program, the author suggests that certain attitude changes, taken as an index of role shift, are associated with interaction patterns with significant others. (Author/MF)

Institutionalization of experiential learning can be enhanced by an administrative office that serves individual programs without limiting the autonomy and initiative of faculty and academic departments. Some critical factors in the federation of field-based learning programs at San Francisco State are highlighted. (MLW)

The programs of sponsored experiential learning can improve their bargaining position within the institution by practicing and demonstrating cost-effective forms of operation. Effective sponsored experiential learning programs can actually increase the cost-effectiveness of the host institution. (MLW)

Suggestions for implementing student teaching programs focus on laboratory and clinical experience, placement, supervisory roles, and a systematic program framework. (FG)