This issue describes an enrollment pattern emerging in higher education--students who are matriculated at, or have graduated from, a four-year college who then transfer to a two-year school, a process labeled "reverse transfer." The following articles are included: (1) "What Do We Know about Reverse Transfer Students?" (Barbara K. Townsend and John T. Dever); (2) "Paradoxes: California's Experience with Reverse Transfer Students" (Linda Serra Hagedorn and Consuelo Rey Castro); (3) "Understanding and Recruiting the Reverse Transfer Student: A Presidential Perspective" (James L. Catanzaro); (4) "The Urban Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfer Student: Giving New Meaning to the Term 'Second Chance'" (John W. Quinley and Melissa P. Quinley); (5) "Reverse Transfer Students in an Urban Postsecondary System in Oregon" (Susan K. Bach, Melissa A. Banks, David K. Blanchard, Mary K. Kinnick, Mary F. Ricks, and Juliette M. Stoering); (6) "Bachelor's Degree Students Attending Community Colleges: A Look at Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfers in Missouri" (Terry L. Barnes and Laura M. Robinson); (7) "Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfers in Maryland and Tennessee: Institutional Problems and Possibilities" (Barbara K. Townsend and Rivkah Y. Lambert); (8) "Institutional and Public Policy Implications of the Phenomenon of Reverse Transfer Students" (Daniel J. Phelan); and (9) "Sources and Information on the Scope and Impact of Reverse Transfers" (Christine M. LeBard). (EMH)