Without the restraint of the textbook the teacher can become editor and decision maker, using journal articles, books, laboratory exercises and multi-media packages, to go well beyond the level of any available text. (Editor/IR)

The University Seminars at Columbia University demonstrate how faculty members can enrich their intellectual lives through contact with colleagues from other fields and institutions and with nonacademic researchers. The development of the program at Columbia and similar programs at other institutions are described. (MLW)

The economics of educational television has been disappointing. Higher education can make use of television commercials and their techniques to: (1) teach specifics such as facts, pointers, or principles that would help people improve their lives; (2) attract interest for more involved study; and (3) inform people about higher education. (MLW)

A history of Brookwood Labor College, an educational pioneer that engaged in practices and solved problems that have become widespread in higher education, is presented. It served adult and nontraditional students, and also proved that a liberal arts education provides vocational training, and that quality means more than survival. (MLW)

The unique program offered at Oakes College, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, attempts to capitalize on the ethnic and cultural differences of minority students while offering them remedial instruction and support services to enable them to compete with majority students within the California System. (JMF)

Describes how, from its beginning, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has supported providing education to citizens everywhere, first by sponsoring face-to-face instruction in remote locations and now by encouraging institutions to use online technologies to reshape education by providing it anytime and anywhere. (EV)

Chautauqua Institution, a 105-year-old educational venture that was one of the U.S.'s first successful attempts at mass adult education, offers summer theme-oriented lecture programs, college courses, religious lecture series, opera, symphonies, and plays. Its current efforts and outlook are discussed. (LBH)

Los Angeles' International College is a small, private, unaccredited college with 174 students and without classrooms, library or student center. Its chief assets are the intellects and worldwide reputations of many of its tutors who work closely with student apprentices. (LBH)

Tennessee's higher education funding based on institutional performance is discussed by three key participant-observers of the state's initiatives: Steve Cobb, Arliss Roaden, and John Folger. Money for remedial education was taken out of university budgets and put in special college preparatory institutes. These institutes are discussed. (MLW)

England is revolutionizing its entire educational system with its Open University of extension education. (Editor/IR)

The financial and accreditation problems of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, an innovative institution that includes the Union Graduate School and the undergraduate University Without Walls, are examined. Also discussed is the Union's ability to retain its experimental character as it faces retrenchment. (JMD)

Discusses stakeholder learning collaboratives, or collaboration among schools, colleges, and employers committed to decentralized small work groups, employee collaboration, and other high-performance practices. Details the core principles and initiatives of these innovative collaborations and offers examples of their implementation. (EV)

The status of Antioch Law School in Washington, D.C. is described. The program accepts, nurtures, and turns into successful students applicants who would have been given low priority by most law schools. Its emphasis on clinical teaching has turned out practicing lawyers. Problems with grant money and faculty-administrator relations are addressed.…

"If the research in higher education ended, it would scarcely be missed." This is the time when excellent research and scholarship about higher learning and its institutions is needed, yet the study of this national resource is at a low ebb. The reasons for low appraisals of research are discussed. (MLW)

Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)