This booklet, presenting information on careers in education and teaching, is addressed primarily to high school students and first- and second-year college students. A short history of teaching is presented along with a description of the essential nature of a teacher's work. Teaching situations and conditions are explained, with emphasis on the…

A guide for a conference on the role of the supervisor in effective personnel management is presented. The purposes of the conference are: (1) to examine the basic principles underlying the Federal personnel system and to see how the various parts fit together, (2) to discuss the personnel management responsibilities of supervisors, and (3) to…

When it appeared that the public library system might become the agents for sponsoring official library recruitment projects, three such projects were started in New York State. The emphasis of these projects was on personal contact recruiting and summer cadet programs which permitted practical experience in library situations. The project,…

Two articles discuss the organization and implementation of a one-week summer school designed for working class housewives in Belfast. The first article, Organize the Course, describes recruitment, staffing, and student characteristics and needs. The second article, planning the content, discusses the aims and content of the course. (EC)

A model of the national supply of freshmen students is applied to the admissions problems of Ohio Wesleyan University to estimate enrollments, verbal ability of enrolled classes, and financial aid funds needed. The information provided shows admissions planners future implications of fee policy based on past experience. (JT)

Analyzes the job of a search committee responsible for filling college administrative positions suggesting do's and don'ts for committee membership, candidate selection criteria, screening, interviewing, testing the references, decision by fatigue, and notifying the finalists. (JT)

Describes a four-week summer program designed to attract women into the engineering curriculum and ultimately into an engineering career. (MLH)

Six of Abraham Flexner's proposals for improving medical education in the early twentieth century are applied to modern teacher education. These include closing some schools, improving admission requirements, recruiting faculty, identifying instructional methods best suited to specific skills, insuring adequate funding, and insuring that teacher…

Describes the detrimental effect the passage of a tax cutting bill has on institutions of higher education especially on supplies and on recruiting top new faculty members. (GA)

Examines the specific provisions and probable effects of the 1978 amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act on current personnel policies and procedures. Available from Executive Enterprise Publications Co., Inc., 10 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019; $48.00 annually. (Author/PKP)

The controversy over Black admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is described, which has called into question such areas as quotas, special admissions policies, minority recruiting, and the impact on Black universities of increased Black enrollment at White institutions. (LBH)

Opportunities abroad for teachers of English as a second language are presented. The role of the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), a placement service, is discussed. Information on how to contact CUSO is also presented. (HP)

Admissions officers of 350 private colleges and universities were surveyed to ascertain their understanding of the term "marketing," current use of promotional (advertising and personal selling) activities, market segmentation approaches, and their product (i.e., academic programs) development and differentiation strategies. The mail questionnaire…

Public colleges versus private colleges, Allan W. Ostar, executive director of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, versus John D. Phillips, executive director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities; all are determined to survive in the struggle to acquire funds which they desperately need.…

Successfully recruiting new students must begin with market research, which needs to begin with an examination of the characteristics of an institution's current students, demographic and geographic as well as academic. The roles of alumni, teachers, publications, no-shows, direct mail, guidance counselors, other students, and employees are…