Describes experience of Bates College with optional testing, summarizing results of optional Scholastic Aptitude Tests over five years and presenting snapshot of totally optional testing over one year. Discusses enrollment, predictive, and ethical implications of an optional testing policy. Concludes with some brief speculations on definitions of…

Students Against Testing, a Brown University student group that seeks to either abolish or reform the Scholastic Aptitude Test is discussed. As a result of a letter-writing drive, students on at least 50 campuses are seriously considering starting similar efforts next fall. (MLW)

Based in part on four-year data collection project concerned with the Asian Pacific admission issue at private and public colleges in California and the Northeast, this article examines Asian Pacific Americans and the obstacles they face in undergraduate admission to colleges. Explores differences in admit rates between Asian Pacific Americans and…

Presents the drastic effects that selection on several variables can sometimes have on the validity of predictor variables. Discusses practical implications of correcting correlations for selection effects and reporting results of validity studies. (Author)

Presents several brief reports on the latest trends and current circumstances surrounding African American progress in higher education. Discussions include funding levels at black colleges, black student recruitment at Harvard and Yale, displacement of black PhDs in science and engineering, and education and the African American mother. (GLR)

This booklet describes how many institutions of higher education have mainstreamed disabled students more fully into campus life, and provides information to students who are disabled to help them find the college campus that fits their needs. Information is provided on institutional programs for the disabled among the youthful undergraduate…

This paper addresses the problems involved in the screening and retention of students in human service education. A review of the goals of these screening and retention processes is presented along with the identification and exploration of internal and external program variables affecting them. The open admissions policy of many institutions…

Briefs of selected higher court cases involving student/institutional relationships in Higher Education reported through March 31, 1977 comprised the basic case book. Cases reported after March 31, 1977 are included in monthly supplements. Designed for use by students, faculty, and administrators, the case book responds to the "legalistic '60's"…