Issues addressed at the National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting include banning boosters and alumni from recruitment activities, closer scrutiny of coaches' income, distribution of complimentary game passes, a rule prohibiting a college coach from watching his son's high school football games, improvement of regulation enforcement, and…

Discusses characteristics and behaviors of effective role models for American Indian women, based on surveys of graduates of the American Indian Social Work Career Training Program at the University of Utah. Recruitment and retention of American Indian women students will require an active support system. (JAC)

This article discusses three issues: (1) the decline in the number of people entering teaching; (2) the need for more young Black people to enter the profession; and (3) the development of a program by the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University to recruit and assist Black students. (MT)

California's Teacher Trainee Certification Program places responsibility for preparation of teacher trainees on local school districts with collaboration from institutions of higher education. The Professional Development Plan is reviewed and implications of alternative certification are developed. (MT)

This investigation attempted to discern the level of interest in teaching as a career among college-track high school students and to identify the factors related to that interest or lack of interest. The findings indicate that recruitment efforts should be tailored to meet the interests of a specific group. (MT)

This study identified those characteristics of students who had selected agricultural education as a major as compared to characteristics of students who had selected other secondary education, elementary education, or other vocational-technical programs as their majors. Working with youth, job availability, and wanting to help youth prepare for…

Describes a program at Texas A & M University on training vocational educators in the identification and placement of gifted and talented high school students in vocational programs. Workshops focus on characteristics and identification of the gifted, available programs, recruitment, and overcoming the objections to placement of the gifted in…

To identify and attract outstanding candidates for key nonacademic positions, college and university presidents should employ executive search firms, primarily to learn of outstanding candidates that might never surface in any other way. (MLW)

Describes the Learning Behavior Dilemma, a developmental admissions model which evaluates students' level of intellectual development and their readiness for undertaking educational challenges. Discusses the importance of understanding the optimal match between students and their educational environment. (JAC)

Questions the objectivity of college recruiters. Surveyed 100 corporate college recruiters, and found a strong preference for new employees with masculine characteristics. High male-orientation recruiters placed more importance on applicants' personal characteristics than on work experience regardless of recruiter gender. (JAC)

Communication and other literacy skills are vital to public safety organizations. This report investigates the impact literacy levels may have on the ability of volunteers to meet demands for more formal training and assessment. The role of these organizations to develop the skills of people in rural and remote communities is also considered. The…

"ARL" is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). "ARL" reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff and…

This study focuses on the general question of the value of vocational qualifications to employers by considering three areas in which the economic value of vocational qualifications to employers is evident: in prerequisites specified in job hiring, in employment levels of people with different qualifications, and in the wage levels of people with…

In 1997, Congress reauthorized the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which grew out of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Congress stated that there was a need to "enhance the capability of state and local agencies and service providers to identify, evaluate, and meet the needs of historically…

Although the theory of the market is well understood, little is known about how for-profit schools will operate in practice. This paper considers why for-profit schooling has developed during the current period and not before (e.g., entrepreneurs must compete against heavily subsidized public schools, which limits their ability to charge prices…