Provides background information on enrollment management, discusses the concept in the context of today's colleges and universities, identifies four basic models of enrollment management, and outlines an ideal approach to implementing enrollment management principles. Argues that enrollment management is a concept reaching maturity. (RJM)

Explains why student recruitment now borders on hucksterism and outlines the reasons behind this phenomenon. Presents the dangers of aggressive recruitment programs, describes some of the major components of recruitment, and identifies some of the more influential players in the process. Asserts that admissions recruitment is here to stay. (RJM)

Discusses international student services in the United States and asserts that targeted recruitment, high-quality admission policies, and mainstreamed student services provide the best experience for the student and the institution. Examines components of institutional rationale, such as scholarship, internationalization, and financial impact,…

Discusses the power of teacher praise and attention on training students with disabilities to recruit teacher attention. Describes types of students who could benefit from recruitment training, along with the skills and behaviors that can be taught. Provides strategies are provided for teaching recruiting skills. (CR)

Although young people are graduating from college in increasing numbers in France, their labor market prospects have worsened. The employment system's capacity to absorb college graduates is out of kilter with the numbers of graduates from higher education. (SK)

Summarizes round table discussions of various issues in staffing recruitment. The major issues covered here include technology, diversity programs, college relations, and recruitment programs. Other concerns on staffing agendas, such as salary compression, just-in-time hiring, and enhancing corporate image, are also addressed. (RJM)

Outlines the various skills, behaviors, attitudes, and other qualities needed for the competent hiring of employees. Emphasizes that knowledge, a model for human resource development, experience, and difference competencies are essential to the hiring process. Lists 35 human resource development competencies, grouped under the headings of…

This special theme issue includes: "How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage?" (Camp); "A Student's Perspective" (Swafford); "Recruitment" (Dyer, Andreasen); "Top 10 Reasons to Become an Agriculture Teacher and FFA Advisor" (Bembardt, McMaben); "Supply and Demand of Agriculture Teachers since 1965"…

Discusses how a comparison of the philosophical orientations, content and methods, and teacher preparation in multicultural education revealed some similarities in the two systems as well as some very instructive differences. Suggests that every teacher education program should include field experiences with diverse students so that prospective…

Describes how the competition for top students for business and law schools has become so fierce that recruiters are perfecting the "hard sell." (EV)

Successful companies anticipate shifts and leverage their opportunities, and use economic downtimes to secure, streamline, and strengthen their university relations programs. (Author)

Describes how, with the lure of tuition assistance and academic support, South Carolina's "Call Me Mister" program seeks to increase the number of Black male teachers in the state's public school system. (EV)

Identifies strategies for attaining minorities and for improving the current status of underrepresented minorities in academic libraries. A plan for action is presented which includes internships for minorities, the Targets of Opportunity Program (TOPS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruiting by networking, and a mentoring…

Examines the relationship between changes in school districts' regional entry-level salary rankings and teacher recruitment in a poor region in Central New York State and in wealthy, suburban Nassau County. When districts improved their entry-level salary ranking, they subsequently improved their ability to attract the region's most highly…

A serious problem facing recreation and aquatic directors is retaining pool personnel. This article identifies factors that contribute to retention problems and suggests an "off-season" training program for former employees, with incentives, as a way of addressing these problems. Results of a survey of 49 pool employees are presented.…