Focuses on mentoring as a professional behavior that can address both the quantity and the quality of the teaching force. Argues that recruiting teachers is only a small part of the challenge to place a qualified person in every classroom: retaining good teachers requires a commitment to professional growth, a goal that can be addressed through…

Report highlights Foothill College (California), a community college in Silicon Valley (the costliest housing market in the United States), as an example of the increasing number of colleges having difficulty recruiting faculty because housing is so expensive in their local areas. (DB)

Employee retention must be rethought in a free-agent market. Compensation can shape who leaves and stays. Job design and customization can tailor jobs to employee needs. Encouraging social ties among colleagues and selecting appealing locations for workplaces are other ways to retain talented workers. (SK)

Results of research into the graduate recruitment and selection practices of 30 British small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the skills being sought by employers suggest that SMEs value transferable skills and that small employers expect an immediate contribution from graduate recruits. (JOW)

Career centers at community and junior colleges often extend their services beyond the student body and into the surrounding community. Although this places greater demands on career services practitioners, it can also lend value and credibility to the career center's role, benefit the local citizenry and economy, and augment the college's…

Describes how widespread budget deficits have led to more faculty hiring freezes than higher education has seen in years; however, searches do continue on some campuses. (EV)

Describes how National Board for Professional Teaching Standards can help recruit and retain qualified beginning teachers and to provide career advancement opportunities for experienced teachers. (PKP)

Describes several strategies used by one Arizona school district to recruit and retain more ethnically diverse teachers. (PKP)

Discusses several reasons many teachers are unwilling to apply for the principalship: Too little pay, costly and irrelevant requirements, too many pressures, too many hats to wear, not enough time, too little authority. Suggests several changes in principal's role, compensation, training, and recruitment to attract more qualified teachers for the…

Since 2000, North Carolina has offered an alternative route to licensure for adults who desire to move into teaching from other careers. NC TEACH is a statewide alternative teacher preparation program aimed at recruiting, supporting, and retaining highly skilled mid-career professionals who seek to enter the teaching profession through the lateral…

This article relates the experiences of Jeff Fischer, an instructor in the Computer Integrated Machining department at South Central College (SCC) in North Mankato, Minnesota. Facing dwindling student enrollment and possible departmental budget costs, Fischer was able to turn his passion for custom-built cycles and the intricate machining that…

There has been enormous growth globally in the number of both MBA providers and students over the past few decades. While inclusion in national and international MBA league-tables is part of the marketing arsenal of every MBA supplier that appears in them, identifying the determinants of success in this ever more crowded marketplace is a far less…

At Huston-Tillotson, Hispanic students, most of whom are Mexican Americans, account for 10 percent of the undergraduate student body population. That figure gives Huston-Tillotson one of the highest percentages of Hispanic student enrollment among historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Hispanics are one of the fastest growing groups…

Some 37.1 percent of education spending was earmarked for teachers in 2001-02, according to the American Federation of Teachers, and most of that money was paid out using traditional compensation systems. But as expectations for accountability increase, a handful of states are looking to pay-for-performance systems to attract quality…

This paper analyses the portrayal, within UK universities' publicity materials, of disabled students and disability services. Basic public relations practices explain that an organisation should know its audiences and focus its messages accordingly. We argue that recruitment is an issue which cannot be ignored in discussions of learning and…