Originally a speech prepared for the Alabama Consortium for the Development of Higher Education, this is a paper that attempts to test assumptions about non-traditional educational programs and simultaneously to posit alternative approaches that are flexible but still maintain appropriate academic standards. (Author)

A student enrolled in the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado explains that the program permits study in various ways so that a student may acquire whatever skills he feels are necessary to ensure his employment marketability. (HMD)

Research for Better Schools, Inc., a Philadelphia-based laboratory, has instituted a program, Academy for Career Education, as an alternative to the typical high school. The aim of the program is to provide high school students with actual work experience to help them make rational career decisions. (KP)

The Employer-Based Career Education (EBCE) Model derives from: (1) an alternative for young people who would like their education to be more directly related to life outside school; and (2) a merger of the best aspects of the academic and vocational curricula. (KP)

The purpose of this article is to give a brief, general description of Empire State College, in question and answer form, in order that the counseling profession can gain additional information about this innovative approach to higher education. (Author)

Reports on the positive results of a study in India to determine whether wealthy students were capable of being educated for social awareness and social change. (Author)

Briefly presents the higher education system in England for guidance in innovative experimentation in selected institutions in India. (Author/PG)

The author describes an "outward bound" program at Ohio State University in which graduate students in guidance and counseling work with inmages at Ohio reformatories. (RP)

The SUM (Single-Unit Module) Project is being conducted at the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University to explore what would happen to students, faculty, and the administration of the University, if students were presented with a quasi-programmed set of instructional materials and allowed to proceed entirely at…

Described an educational experiment in which primary school students continued their language education in a secondary school. (RK)

Many urban residents do not have the emotional support of an adequate network of kin, friends, or neighbors. It is proposed that such persons join together into artificial extended families or family clusters. Experiences in the formation and operation of a cluster are described on the basis of participant observation. (Author)

Describes the New York Heart Association's experimental program aimed at evaluating a method of developing physicians disciplined by research and competent both as teachers and in the care of patients (clinical scientists). (Author)

On the premise that alternatives are needed and that they will have a better service and survival rate if they are public rather than private, Illinois has instituted a network for educational options. (Editor)