This year-long research project documented critical issues of supply and demand for teachers in the Carolinas. Researchers focused on the number of public and private school education positions advertised in the four major newspapers serving South Carolina and the Charlotte metropolitan region of North Carolina. They documented advertising trends…

The changing face of personnel in higher education amidst a competitive marketplace has inspired student affairs administrators to place greater emphasis on hiring practices in an effort to recruit future colleagues from existing resources. To that end, the attempt was made to (1) propose the Empowerment Model as a means by which future student…

America's public schools are facing a growing problem as the applicant pools for principal vacancies diminish. The purpose of this study was to assess principal certified personnel in a large school district to determine if they were interested in working in other capacities including their current jobs. A total of 251 persons were sent a mailed…

This report describes the Doctoral Scholars Program of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), which is part of a nationwide initiative, the Compact for Faculty Diversity, to produce more minority Ph.D.s and to encourage them to seek faculty positions. The compact provides minority doctoral candidates with academic and financial support as…

This report critically analyzes research on teacher preparation, licensure, and recruitment, questioning the effectiveness of today's teacher education, showing how existing approaches to identifying qualified teachers are lax, and suggesting that district authorities do not always discriminate well between qualified and unqualified teacher…

This paper discusses the Multicultural Recruitment Plan that was instituted at the University of New Orleans during the fall of 1999. The historical prospectus, which necessitated this plan, and some of the initial obstacles to success are reviewed extensively. A theoretical framework, primarily the SPAR (Services, Programs, Advocacy, and…

This article focuses on the interagency overseas counseling thrust launched by the federal government in 1971 to mitigate the debilitating effects of civilian reentry crisis experienced by veterans. The overseas counseling program of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, operating in Europe, the Far East, and Vietnam, was organized…

A nationwide study reveals the views of placement directors, recruiters, and management on the effectiveness of recruiting as well as its role in the future. (Author)

Discussed the search graduates must make in order to gain employment and some developments designed to make that search simpler as well as current trends in education. (RK)

When enrollments fell below predictions, Drake University adopted a student-designed recruitment tool to interest prospective students. (PG)

Examines the trends over time of the multiplication of black physicians relative to their disproportionately low representation among all American physicians. (Author/JM)

Index shows that in greatest demand are teachers of elementary physical and health education; elementary music; trade, industrial, vocational and technical education; elementary art; librarians; foreign languages at the elementary level; and, distributive education. (DS)

Change in admissions is inevitable and already here, and thus the only option is to manage the change or let it manage us. Two presentations are offered: (1) Is the Bell Tolling for Private Colleges?'', given at the NACAC annual conference in San Antonio in October, 1972, and (2) Admissions Is Not Marketing,'' presented to the Middle States…

This exploration of family day care was centered in a multiracial, working class area of Pasadena, Calif., and involved 22 licensed and unlicensed women who cared for a total of 143 children. (Author/CB)