Explores the strategies used by programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) to recruit and retain ethnic minority faculty. Results indicated that many programs have not developed specific recruitment or retention strategies, but that mentoring was the most frequently reported…

Asserts that the revised Taxonomy has the potential to provide a common framework and language for connecting current teachers with prospective teachers, illustrating how teacher recruitment efforts that target high school students can use the revised Taxonomy to plan units and how the revised Taxonomy enables participating high school students to…

Describes how, after a basketball recruiting violation made national headlines, the board of St. Bonaventure University acted decisively. (EV)

Fit a statistical model to historical college enrollment data, testing whether the model could accurately predict enrollment out-of-sample, and used the results to segment admitted students into groups so that different recruitment and marketing interventions could be applied to encourage enrollment. (EV)

Uses a microeconomic model to explain behavior of actors in school-to-work transition that proposes optimal strategies and explains causes of failure. Suggests that metafunctional criteria (personality, behavior, employment stability, productivity, adaptability, social involvement) are crucial factors in recruitment decisions. (Contains 56…

Using a five-level relationship marketing model, four-year college and university Web page content was analyzed focusing on pre-transaction student recruitment strategies in three content areas: applications, faculty, and tours. Descriptive and statistical results indicate increasing amounts of interactivity and two-way communication from 1997 to…

Argues that mentoring, as a workplace learning approach, can be used to address some of problems associated with the recruitment and attrition of academic staff in Australian higher education. Presents a strategy for how mentoring can be used within an academic environment and benefits that can be expected as a result of its successful…

Investigated from two perspectives the Internet's role in communicating educational opportunities: students' Internet use to facilitate information search and decision making, and educational institutions' e-business adoption and implementation. Two surveys of international students and face-to-face interviews with marketing executives from nine…

Lists 10 questions a school board should ask the superintendent to help district improve the recruitment and hiring of excellent teachers. For example, can you briefly explain the process we use to hire teachers? (PKP)

Profiles an economist, a literary scholar, a bioinformatics researcher, and an expert on Islam who found good jobs in a tight academic market. (EV)

Suggests that the increasing prevalence of the two-career couple on university campuses should be viewed as an exhilarating challenge rather than an unmanageable mess of contending views. (RS)

A recruitment effort aimed at utility company employees enrolled 64 percent (679) in a health promotion program. Results demonstrate that sociodemographic predictors of recruitment are almost a mirror image of employee participation in worksite health promotion programs. (JOW)

Good teachers like to be associated with good schools and school systems. The small rural school could become excellent in ways that would resolve its recruitment difficulties while improving education for students and teachers alike. (JOW)

The construction industry will be short of labor by the mid-1990s. A master plan must be devised by management, labor, educators, and government to train and recruit qualified workers. (JOW)

Presents second part of two-part report on ethics in the college placement profession. Reports responses of 87 corporate college relations professionals (recruiters) to brief scenarios describing several situations involving ethics. Considers issues of confidentiality, favoritism, penalties recruiters would be willing to risk by defying a…