Computers have been used in a variety of applications for athletics since the late 1950's. These have ranged from computer-controlled electric scoreboards to computer-designed pole vaulting poles. Described in this paper are a computer-based athletic injury reporting system and a computer-assisted football scouting system. The injury reporting…

At this adult basic education (ABE) administrators' seminar, an Ohio state senator urged educators to become better informed and more effectively involved in political activities affecting public education. The Director of Continuing Education in the Cincinnati Public Schools described forms of cooperation within communities in behalf of ABE. The…

In an interpretive studies project conducted for the Office of Education, Dr. Dale L. Bolton of the University of Washington, Seattle, surveyed the findings of research and the hiring and placement practices of business and industry, governmental agencies, and large school systems. In his final report he examines such problems as how to approach…

This newsletter contains five papers which were delivered at a session of the Panel on the Prpeparation of Physics Teachers. The papers focus on the general topic of recruitment and preparation of high school physics teachers. Some of the important issues considered in the articles include poor teacher preparation, decline of student enrollment in…

Relocation of workers from areas of severe labor surplus to areas of labor shortage can yield a high investment to public manpower funds and will assist in meeting employer manpower needs. A mobility program such as the Iowa-Mississippi project must be selective for potential workers and employers. Relocatees must not be chosen from the hard core…

Recognizing that the teacher's job is to teach, this kit sets forth the areas in which school boards can encourage and support good teaching in the classroom. School boards can establish policies that encourage the administration to recruit widely for the best possible teacher candidates. School baords can establish policies that set forth high…

The purposes of this study were to ascertain from college presidents (1) the number and types of administrative positions which have been filled in the past two years, (2) the number and types of administrative personnel that the institutions anticipated they would need within the next two years, and (3) the previous employment status of newly…

Recruitment, retention, and tenure practices at public junior and community colleges throughout the United States are the subject of this study by the Department of Education, Indiana University. Out of 592 colleges contacted in November 1968, 507 responded; 426 of the responses to this 37-question survey were considered useable sources of data.…

Recognizing that the teacher's job is to teach, this kit sets forth the areas in which school boards can encourage and support good teaching in the classroom. School boards can establish policies that encourage the administration to recruit widely for the best possible teacher candidates. School boards can establish policies that set forth high…

A project will recruit 40 educationally and financially disadvantaged young Negro men, many of them veterans, to prepare them for secondary school English teaching in city schools. Students will be granted probationary college admission and enrolled in special seminars to overcome deficiencies in language and study skills; operating initially on a…

Conducted at the request of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, this study inquired into the attitudes of university graduates and technical college diploma holders toward the training they had received; the relevance of training to the work expected of them; and how employers felt about the graduates whom they employed. The…

In a program undertaken by Union Carbide to encourage black students to enter science and engineering studies, five black universities recruited high school graduates. The universities were: Howard Univ., North Carolina A and T State Univ., Southern Univ., Tennessee State Univ., and Tuskegee Institute. Union Carbide provided summer employment for…

A listing of sources through which 650 applicants first learned of Harcum Junior College is given in descending order, with the percentages given for 1974, 1972, and 1970 applicants. Twenty-two sources are listed. The two sources "High School Counselors" and "Friends and Relatives" introduced Harcum to better than half of the…

The Task Force on the Status of Women in Graduate Education at the University of Michigan produced this final report concerning: issues and problems regarding women in higher education, the committee to study the status of women in graduate education and later careers, special needs of nontraditional graduate students, access to graduate school,…

The authors describe the systematic recruitment and selection procedures in the appointment of a Director of Education for Dufferin County, Ontario. The approach centers on the use of professional consultants to assist the Board in reaching a decision, providing a list of candidates to consider and detailed information of a reasonably objective…