The College Venture Program, a Boston-based consortium of New England liberal arts colleges, annually helps place hundreds of student clients--"stopouts" or "interruptees"--in temporary jobs while they contemplate their future college plans. Counseling services are offered and a job bank is maintained. (LBH)

Middle College High School, located on the urban campus of LaGuardia Community College in New York, concentrates on motivating potential dropouts to graduate from high school and go on to college. Its establishment in 1974, problems, and successes are described, along with other institutions' efforts at dropout prevention. (LBH)

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) was established to develop technically informed leadership within the Indian community by significantly and quickly increasing the number of American Indian scientists and engineers, ensuring professional growth, and developing Indian leaders through precollege culturally sensitive camps,…