Since small school problems are magnified in rural areas and since small rural schools have suffered, consequently, from the consolidation syndrome, it is important to acknowledge the fact that due to geographical limitations some rural areas cannot consolidate and others simply prefer the small school environment. It should also be recognized…

Except for several Human Resources Research Organization studies of the military, no systematic study has been made of the effects of attitudes and incentives on manpower availability. One such study explored the effects of early Army experience in the career orientation of Army recruits and found that early positive motivation for service was…

The basis for this study of characteristics of college graduates recruited into elementary and secondary teaching careers was a sample from an American Council on Education 1967 freshmen survey and a 1971 followup of this sample. The study focuses on two points of early career development: career choices during college and the employment of…

This self-instructional learning packet is one part of a competency-guided program for instructional supervisor preparation developed by the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project. This packet leads its users through an exercise simulating the recruitment and selection of personnel to staff a new community school program within a…

In order to comply with federal law, all employers must take certain affirmative actions designed to remedy the effect of job discrimination, no matter how inadvertent or unintentional that discrimination might be. Employers, therefore, must actively recruit employees for all job levels from the ranks of minority groups and women. This directory…

The recognized need for institutions to make policy decisions about the hiring, career progress, and retention of highly qualified academic and nonacademic staff prompted this manpower study. A statement of some basic elements in Ontario universities pertaining especially to faculty career planning is presented followed by a quantitative…

In the early summer of 1972 the Institute for Services to Education formed a small task force group to conduct a limited but systematic inquiry into the status of Black Studies programs at a selected number of American institutions of higher education. The major purposes of the study are: (1) the formulation of a workable definition of Black…

What is the impact of the recruitment activities of the Prospective Student Office on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University? In an effort to assess the degree of exposure to each recruitment activity and the effectiveness of each activity, surveys were mailed to students and their parents. Data were collected on in-state and out-of-state…

The Education Professions Development Act (EDPA) Part B, Subpart 2 authorizes a state grant program to provide local school districts with funds to meet shortages of classroom personnel by recruiting persons from the community, providing them with intensive short-term preservice training, and putting them to work in classrooms. This final report…

This contractual agreement covers the period July 1, 1973 through June 30, 1975. The agreement covers: purpose and intent of the agreement, rights of the employer, aid to other unions, union recognition, bargaining units, union security, union dues and initiation fees, representation, stewards and alternate stewards, union bulletin board, union…

Section I of this report on the status of women at Harvard discusses the inclusion of women in the faculty, administration, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Women are underrepresented at the highest and most visible levels of the faculty. Though women constitute roughly 20 percent of the students taught in the Faculty of Arts and…

Over a 6-month period, a four-man team from the University evaluated the first year of Project APT (Applying Partnerships to Teaching) sponsored by the Hartford College Counseling Center (HCCC). Objectives of Project APT were 1) to find and develop a new source of locally available, quality teaching talent by recruiting, counseling, and placing…

Prepared under authority of the Economic Opportunity Act, this New Careers manual deals largely with specific personnel functions in which manpower project directors and staff members can work closely with government officials--state and local as well as Federal--to alter public service merit system requirements as they affect disadvantaged…

A review of NASA Federal Management Intern (MI) programs indicates potential for identification, attraction, and early development of successful administrative management employees, but suggests that successful development of managers is a function of the long-term care with which an agency pursues MI programs. A recent study of separations in…

Reported are (1) the status of preparation of physics teachers, and (2) recommendations for improving programs preparing physics teachers. The seriously declining high school physics enrollments are attributed, in part, to the shortage, or absence, of competent teachers. The effect this might have on the future supply of physicists is a major…