A pilot program at Okalossa-Walton Junior College (Niceville, Florida) sought to increase the number of women in all its vocational areas. Brochures, posters and slide-tape presentations provided information for targeted groups in identified locations. One year after recruitment efforts began, enrollment went from two to twenty in drafting the…

A counselor and recruiter for the Madison Area Technical College describes their outreach career awareness project to correct the imbalance of minority, disadvantaged, and handicapped students in postsecondary education. Special recruitment efforts, counseling services, and followup activities will be provided, including various academic and…

A foreign language teacher describes her simple and inexpensive strategy for recruitment and publicity to build a strong foreign language program in the Crook County, Oregon, schools. Inexpensive methods of acquiring and developing instructional materials are also described. (SW)

Investigates college faculty views on influence and power in areas of educational policy, recruitment, and finance. Findings from a large sample of colleges and universities indicate that influence in educational policy and recruitment is perceived to be divided among senior faculty, department chairmen, administrators, and trustees. (Author/DB)

To provide guidelines for selection and recruitment of paraprofessionals in the New York State Cooperative Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNED), a study was made to determine differences between presently employed and former aides and their success in other jobs. Data are shown in the text and in nine tables. (MF)

Student support systems developed and utilized in a three-year training effort with more than 104 Native American social work students at the School of Social Work, University of Utah are assessed. Focus is on recruitment, communication, modeling, counseling, follow-up, student involvement, and discrimination education. (Author/LBH)

Proposes an approach to "marketing" the community college and thus increasing its support, enrollments, and financial backing. (DC)

A survey for incoming freshmen was used to identify the two most important influences on decisions to enroll at Ohio University. This information was then used to improve publications used in student recruitment. Turning admissions data into publications is discussed. (MLW)

The State University of New York's innovative summer internship program bringing together 18 students between their third and fourth years to study functional vision care and vision therapy is described. Its history, program structure, recruitment and selection, and evaluation are highlighted. (MSE)

The Ivy League was the product of a protest movement by eight college presidents who were dismayed by the growing professionalism of intercollegiate athletics. The league adopted two major tenets: athletes would be admitted under the same criteria as other students, and colleges would only provide need based financial aid. (MLW)

Discusses the interrelated problems of burnout and substance abuse facing professionals in admissions. Contributing conditions include their tremendous responsibilities, their onerous schedules, dual responsibilities of recruitment and administration, absence from home, and then having to handle piled-up work. Advocates continuing education,…

The article discusses various aspects of overt shortage of secondary school mathematics teachers, including recruitment trends, future prospects, attitudes of potential recruits, and school-based factors that contribute to shortages. Attention is also given to how secondary school mathematics departments are organized so as to cope with the…

A study surveyed students who entered a program in the Faculty of Human Ecology, University of Manitoba, over a four-year period, after it changed its name, curriculum, and entrance requirements in 1981. The purpose was to identify sources of information to ensure that recruitment strategies were effective. (JOW)

Noting that the Reagan Administration has slashed education aid 16 percent and that the next President will inherit a fiscal mess, Dukakis plans to become the nation's number-one advocate for educational opportunity, good teaching, and adult literacy. He sets forth numerous plans, including a national teachers corps, a college opportunity fund,…

A survey of Hispanic parents in high-minority, low-income areas of six southern states gathered information on parent feelings toward parent involvement in education, similarities and differences between parents and educators concerning aspects of parent involvement, and recommended action to involve parents in the Hispanic student's college…