Minnesota's goals and policies for serving part-time and returning college students were studied. Attention was directed to the following: programs that should be available to part-time and returning students; forms of credit or recognition that should be given to these students; the way that responsibility should be shared and monitored within…

A discussion of concurrent enrollment programs, in which high school students can enroll in college-level courses before graduation and simultaneously receive credit for their diplomas and receive college credit, shows how such programs can address concerns about high school-college articulation and describes several program models in action. Two…