Among the ambitious programs in workers' education sponsored by Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are high school equivalency programs, college scholarships, tuition assistance, and overseas travel-study tours. Focus is on the critical thinking seminars offered at the union's Long Island retreat. (JMD)

In view of New Jersey's history of diffidence with regard to education in general, Governor Brendan Byrne and higher education Chancellor Ralph A. Dungan in early 1974 named a Commission on Financing Postsecondary Education. Its "free market" fiscal plan calls for reduction of institutional subsidies and increased direct student…