Innovative trends in college placement programs at Bowling Green University, Yale University, and the City College of New York are described. Placement officers there and career counseling firms and organizations are taking more aggressive steps to prepare graduates for the job market. (LBH)

Undergraduates are sacrificing the full experience of college to other priorities and the major detractor is off-campus work. Faculty complain that jobs take time from studies and extracurricular activities; job schedules constrain a teacher's ability to confer with students, to arrange field trips, and student time in the library. (MLW)