The handbook focuses on ways in which local Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) groups can meet the needs of young parents with retarded children. The importance of recruiting young parents is stressed, and perceptions of these parents toward the ARC are considered. Local ARC units are advised about ways to find young parents in the community,…

Freshmen recruitment and admissions trends at Trinity University, a small, independent Texas university, are described. Attention is directed to the weekly rates at which freshman applications and tuition deposits were received over a 4-year time period. The patterns of the receipt of applications and deposits were consistent across years. The…

Promotion is a controllable marketing tool of continuing education and extension administration and should be treated as such. By analyzing current promotional efforts and planning future promotional activities, the extension manager can communicate with his market with more efficiency and greater effectiveness. (Author)

Recommends that search and review committees should be elected or named in consultation with relevant constituencies; that search committee recommendations should not be overturned without additional consultation; and that reviews should be linked with limited administrative terms. (Author/PG)

A placement director indicates problems that need solving in the areas of placement and recruitment, and an industry recruiter treats the nature of professionalism in the two fields. (Author)

This article provides some interesting and useful answers which can help guide the admissions officer in his day-to-day work, and in his efforts to influence recruitment policy development within his institution. (Author)

Programs at the University of Miami are used to illustrate what needs to be done in order to assure that the admissions function is working well enough to meet both the fiscal and qualitative levels desired in order to achieve one's institutional goals. (Author/KE)

Paper supported by a 1967-68 resident postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University and a grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Prepared to assist principals, teachers, and volunteers who wish to be part of a district-wide school volunteer program, this booklet lists six steps for planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating a program for school volunteers. Included in these steps is information on (1) starting such a program (i.e., creating a coordinating committee…