In order to assist students in the process of self-actualization, and create an awareness of self and environment, an interdisciplinary group of general education instructors organized an on-campus commune, the Micro-College, at Miami-Dade Community College (Florida). Integral components include: modular instruction, grading contracts, and special…

An experiment is reported which utilized a professional medical care organization as the base for intern and resident education. The major reason for its failure was the rigidity of Medicare regulations. The data suggest the mechanism is feasible and could potentially obviate many problems of hospital-based programs. (Editor/JT)

Cuban social system has eliminated discrimination, racism, sexism and unemployment and created equal opportunity for all. Cuba is upheld as model for all forward looking U.S. citizens to study. (Author/AM)

Describes various courses and programs designed to better prepare graduates to enter the chemical industry, including courses which stress the chemistry of industrial processes, and the economics of the chemical industry. (MLH)

Suggestions for the improvement of the Associated Schools Project focus on involving students in their community under the assumption that students' attitudes toward society and the world as a whole begin with their attitudes toward their immediate environment. (JH)

A small budget and limited resources need not prevent placement offices from initiating new programs. Article describes office where students have access to a diversity of career services such as pre-college counseling for freshmen and, for sophomores, on-the-job contact with alumni. (Author/PC)

Discussed the Learning Community, a minischool dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to academics. (Author/RK)

Asserts that educators can use what is known about communication and the change process to design better ways of interesting teachers in improving their instructional practices and in helping them to do so. Proposes a dissemination/diffusion model. (Author/WM)

The Secondary Exploration of Technology (S. E. T.) project, an industrial arts research and development project providing continuity of learning for students from grades 7 through 12, is described. Three "Systems of Industry" courses for ninth and tenth grade students, modelled on the techniques of industry, are unique to the program.…

In the future, American higher education will become more flexible, open, and egalitarian while it moves toward the European pattern of increased student responsibility. (Author/DW)

Description of a long-range plan for program improvement and curriculum revision through the development of exit-level student objectives for each course and grade level. (JG)

Multiple-image projection, an exciting new audiovisual technology, offers more effective learning environments today, 360-degree training simulations tomorrow. (Author)

Deals with an approach to educational reform, attempting to expand on the objectives of education and present some examples which show why innovations in the field of education fail to produce results when introduced within existing structures. (Author/PG)