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Thousands of average students will be speeding up their educational progress in the years ahead as high schools and colleges find new ways for students to go through the educational system faster than ever before. Recognizing wasteful overlap in the last year or two of high school and the first year or two of college, schools are meshing these years together or eliminating them entirely -- to create time-shortened degree programs that suit today's student population. (Author/JF)

By expanding curriculums to include applied science, schools may eventually ease the shortage of engineers that currently plagues the country. (Author/DN)

Describes the 6 recommendations of the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education, including federal funding of undergraduate education through grants and loans, increase in tuition charges, full utilization of institutional resources, and continuation of tax incentives for voluntary support of higher education. (Author/PG)

A private firm uses a psychological motivational program to turn underachieving adolescents into capable young adults. (MF)

Describes two successful basic new'' approaches to tutoring -- one stressing the development of an open, nonstructured relationship between students, and the other emphasizing the programed or structured tutoring that concentrates on reading and prescribes detailed steps to follow. (Author)

Evidence strongly indicates that students can reliably evaluate teachers and that many teachers actually welcome constructive student criticism. (Author/JN)

When food prices skyrocketed last summer and fall, food service directors met the challenge with a variety of strategies from meatless meals to selling students on the concept of food conservation. (Author)

Discusses the merger of Wisconsin's 2 state universities. (PG)

Discusses the effects on public and private colleges of legal drinking on campus, citing examples of schools that have successfully established rathskellers and pubs on campus. (PG)

Utilizing the community for health care education. (Editor)

When enrollments fell below predictions, Drake University adopted a student-designed recruitment tool to interest prospective students. (PG)