Issues concerning school/college programs and the transition to postsecondary education are discussed, based on program information provided to the National Commission on Excellence in Education. A major concern was the use of time allocated for learning between ninth grade and the attainment of a postsecondary credential. The college/school programs involved time-condensed credentials, expansion of content within allocated time, college credits in high school, and similar approaches directed at the college-bound student. Another focal area was the raising of expectations through outreach and recruitment efforts. This involved a variety of prematriculation strategies designed to motivate and prepare disadvantaged, underprepared, and/or poorly counseled students for postsecondary education, to track them into demanding academic programs, and to recruit them into college. The final focal area was the development and exchange of academic personnel. These programs seek both to eliminate redundancies in the secondary and postsecondary curriculum and to enrich the content of the secondary school curriculum by using college faculty in secondary schools or through cooperative faculty development projects in specific academic disciplines. Seventeen brief descriptions of college programs are included. (SW)