Current issues in vocational education are explored in 12 articles written by present and former graduate students at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The titles of the articles are: 2001: A Vocational Education Odyssey; What Is This RAVE in Vocational Education?; Opportunity, Achievement, and Black Americans: A Challenge for Vocational Leadership; Industry's Role in the Preparation of the Workforce; Proprietary Schools: Future Partner in Vocational Education?; Older Adults: The Needs of a New Minority; Shaping the Future of Vocational Education Programs with Formative Evaluation; Conflict in California Education: Causal Factors and a Proposal to Reduce Its Intensity; The Workplace As a Vocational Education Classroom: A Changing Relationship; Vocational Education and Foreign Language; Articulation: A Compelling Lifeline for the Future of Vocational Education; and Our Changing Image. Notes on the contributors are included at the end. (LMS)