A Ford Foundation program funded individual institutional programs focusing on higher education access and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of learning problems, and information services to help individuals make program choices. Three institutional programs are reported. In the first report, Ernest A. Lynton, with Diana Strange and Cornelia D'Mils, discusses the Boston Six (Boston State College, Bunker Hill Community College, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Massachusetts College of Art, Roxbury Community College, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston) as an example of cooperation among urban institutions and their three central administrations. Benefits to the institutions and the population, the potential impact of state higher education reorganization, limitations of institutional cooperation, and participants' comments are discussed. James R. Jordan discusses a program in which Miles College cooperated with the Birmingham, Alabama schools to use retired teachers to upgrade skills of students from first through eighth grades. Gail Spangenberg, with Morton Colemen and Jeffrey Daniels, discusses the University of Hartford's community outreach program for Hispanics. Project designs and goals, successes and problems, institutional cooperation, costs, and caveats are presented. Appendices include a list of Boston private postsecondary institutions, notes on the Boston Six institutions, and notes on related Ford Foundation grants. (MSE)