This seminar, conducted to provide executives, officers, and directors of communication associations with a better understanding of future communication careers, as an aid in planning career related association activities. Analyses and studies are included on the impact of the future environment on the communication field, future United States…

The proceedings of a conference focusing on women and employment are presented. The keynote address by Marie Tarbell summarizes recent statistics describing women's position in the paid work force. She reports that women comprise 41% of the paid work force and can expect to work an average of 22.9 years. Despite their increasing participation,…

An annual event since 1951, this conference was held to: (1) review the previous year's activities of the Rural Manpower Service and its cooperating agencies; (2) discuss plans for the new year; and (3) study the problems of rural areas. Most of the 250 persons attending the 3-day conference were officials of the Manpower Administration and its…

Separate papers address the following topics in the proceedings of this Regional Civil Rights Conference: impacting equal opportunity in public employment; strengthening state and local agencies, and improving relationships among those agencies and between them, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, and other federal agencies; strengthening the…

During the spring of 1974 a series of seminars on student aid programs and student access were held in connection with the congressional hearings on Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The final seminar in the series focused on the labor market predictions and conditions facing college graduates. The presentations reported on four major areas;…

The document presents a summary of the proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference organized by the Engineering Manpower Commission. The conference was conducted to identify engineering manpower problems and needs and the effects of the national economy and government policies on engineering manpower. The document is divided into three…

The symposium was called by the State of Illinois Advisory Council on Vocational Education, a broadly based entity representing both education and consumers of education from a cross section of the State. Its major aims were: (1) to define the major problems and opportunities that will challenge the State of Illinois over the next 10-15 years, (2)…

Selected technological and research areas that may affect emerging careers and work expectations were discussed in the five seminar presentations contained in this proceedings. In the introductory section, Dennis Nystrom outlines the goals of the conference and suggests possible implications. Sar Levitan, in the keynote address, examines the…

The document contains the proceedings of a conference on manpower research at the Federal, State, and local levels. Two papers from the opening general session focus on the interrelationship of economic, demographic, and educational changes based on its effects on occupational education. J. C. Pettinger's keynote speech presented issues regarding…

Thirteen papers presented at a conference on employment statistics and youth are contained in this report. Reviewed are the problems of gathering, interpreting, and applying employment and unemployment data relating to youth. The titles of the papers are as follow: "Counting Youth: A Comparison of Youth Labor Force Statistics in the Current…