Drawn from papers accepted for presentation at a conference focusing on personalizing college-level learning skills programs, the 35 articles in this collection are arranged into five categories: investigations, program descriptions, program prescriptions, applications, and reactions and interactions. Specific topics discussed in the articles include the following: (1) mastery learning and politics, (2) meeting the individual needs of students, (3) the use and effectiveness of systematic desensitization and study skills methods in a test anxiety reduction program, (4) vocabulary instruction at the college and adult levels, (5) reading ability and readability, (6) the attitudes of community college instructors toward reading, (7) the restructuring of a reading program, (8) management of a learning assistance sector, (9) using program analysis to aid accountability and planning, (10) developing an individualized college reading program, (11) academic improvement groups, (12) teaching students to formulate questions, (13) teaching reading and study skills to law students, (14) predicting reading ability through language experience, and (15) cognitive learning style and the brain. (FL)