Colegio Cesar Chavez, a bilingual educational community in Mt. Angel, Oregon, is a Chicano-oriented and administered college which evolved from financially troubled Mt. Angel College. The author traces its struggle to maintain and develop a liberal arts program to meet the needs of its student body, now 100. (JT)

Reed College, a small, liberal arts college with high academic distinction, is described. Faculty participate in virtually all policy decisions and are hired and promoted according to the quality of their teaching. Its finances are improved, but it is still underfinanced and too heavily dependent on tuition income. (MLW)