"OATYC Journal," which is published by the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges, is designed as a forum for the exchange of concepts, methods, and findings relevant to the two-year college classroom. Along with commentaries and letters of reaction from the readership, the two issues of volume IX present the following major articles: (1) "Focus: Muskingum Area Technical College," by Bruce Humphrey and others; (2) "Cooperative Composition: The Team Research Paper," by Barbara P. Thompson; (3) "A Nation at Risk: The Report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education," by Milton Goldberg and James Harvey; (4) "Issue: Should General Studies Be a Separate Division in a Technical College?" by Carolyn R. Craft and Larry C. Edwards; (5) DACUM Study: Technical Writing," by Timothy Nolan and Marc Green; (6) "Focus: Happy Birthday, Community and Technical College, the University of Akron," by Joe Arnold and others; (7) "The Search Process: From the Outside Looking in," by James McLaughlin; (8) "Teach Thinking in the Technical Classroom," by Marc Newman; (9) " College without Walls at Sinclair Community College, " by Gordon Cowperthwaite; (10) "The Ohio Technology Transfer Organization and Its Role with Two-Year Technical Education in Ohio," by Kim Bonewit; (11) "An Open Formula for Effective Communication," by Jane Durverry; (12) "Issue: Should Merit Pay Be Used to Reward Outstanding Teachers in Two-Year Colleges?" by Anne R. Peterson and Jack Tabor; (13) "One Way to Help Nontraditional Students Increase in Persistence and Competence," by Betty M. Dietsch; and (14) "Washington Tech Looks to a New Space Age," by Ann Tiber. (EJV)