As implemented at the University of Edinburgh, Second Chance to Learn targets adults who have left school and are unemployed or are unskilled or semiskilled workers. It seeks to attract nonparticipants in approachable, community-based settings. (SK)

Examined whether general college choice models may be applied to recruitment of ethnic minority students. Findings from all second-semester freshmen living on-campus at one university suggest that recruitment of black students may be effectively carried out as part of mainstream student recruitment efforts and that special group recruitment…

Because of declining enrollments in colleges of agriculture and the pressures for youth to pursue academic tracks, colleges must expand their role by focusing resources on youth development needs by communicating a more positive image of agriculture to young people. (JOW)

Recruiters (n=65) rated effect of specific social dialect characteristics on job interview and rated their perceptions of social dialect speakers. Results revealed that 58% of Appalachian English variables presented and 93% of Black English variables presented were considered to have negative effect on job interview. For both dialects, nonstandard…

Discusses survey results that examined whether distance education programs at universities offering courses in advertising and/or public relations make use of the Internet/Web pages to inform potential students about courses taught via distance education. The survey and list of Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)…

Offers an overview of the information prepared by the MLA (Modern Language Association) Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Discusses recruitment and application, advising and course work, standards for teaching and other professional experience, and grievances. (CR)

A survey of 40 directors of the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program (more often known as the Business Enterprise Program), which provides legally blind persons with employment operating vending facilities on federal property, indicated that legally blind women are significantly underrepresented, making up about 24% of the licensed facility…

Discusses the ruling in "Hopwood v. State of Texas" that bans the use of race as a major determinate in college admission in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and its effect on deaf education. An eight-step action plan for teacher-training institutions for increasing minority teachers is presented. (Author/CR)

Analyzes data on minority teachers in Texas between 1979 and 1996. Descriptive results show that, although Texas has been successful in attracting minority teachers, it has a long way to go before the teacher workforce reflects the racial/ethnic composition of the state. (SLD)

Through a structured "grow your own" model, the Capistrano Unified School District in California is focusing on developing leaders from within. Strong teachers with leadership potential are actively recruited to enter the administrative arena as elementary-teaching assistant principals. Assistant principals are given principal-level…

Examines how research universities are responding to the complex challenge of revenue generation and budgeted expenditures in a market-driven age, and concludes that institutions adapt by incorporating market-like behavior into their business plans. The study found differences between institutions experiencing and not experiencing enrollment…

In summer 1999, a group of Park City, Utah, school administrators, personnel directors, human-resource specialists, and substitute teacher coordinators brainstormed on improving the recruitment, training, and retention of substitute teachers. Providing effective preservice and on-the-job training and professional recognition are key suggestions.…

Examined family practice residency directors' perspectives on the National Resident Matching Program and medical students' recruitment behavior. Analysis of questionnaire responses (n=351) found that while few directors felt it was ethically wrong for students to interview in more than one specialty, most indicated that knowledge of this behavior…

Comparison of 30 nursing students given psychiatric nursing education and 27 controls showed that exposure to psychiatric nursing increased interest in this career option. Negative views of the specialty held by both experimental and control groups before the study remained unchanged only in the control group. (SK)

Reports on increasing efforts of universities, especially those in states where racial preferences in admissions have been outlawed, to recruit more minority students by soliciting transfer students from local community colleges. Some institutions are easing admissions policies for transfer students, holding "diversity fairs," and…