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The manual describes Project Excel, a program for gifted and talented high school students on a college campus. The curriculum is designed to introduce high potential tenth and eleventh graders to processes of creativity, critical thinking, artistic endeavor, and social consciousness and to provide a bridge into college for them. The project is designed to serve as an after school enrichment session one day a week. Information in Chapter I discusses ways in which colleges or universities can plan, develop, and implement such a project. A timetable of implementation stages is proposed. The curriculum design is considered in terms of themes, group discussion, active participation, and evaluation and assessment features in Chapter II. Sample schedules are provided. In Chapter III, staff responsibilities, including those of the campus coordinator or director, the academic advisory group, high school contact person, and project group leaders are described. Administrative relationships between the college, the high school, and the project leaders are examined, and the nature of the project's fiscal self-sustenance is emphasized in the fourth chapter. A final chapter addresses students--selection criteria, counseling, and the importance of diversity among students. Sample forms, contracts, and project brochures are among appended information. In addition, a package of materials for a workshop for college and university faculty and administrators on Project Excel is included. (CL)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert