The Cooperative College Registry was the pioneer venture of a group of committed Protestant denominations in behalf of their related colleges and universities. It spoke to an urgent need created by an imbalanced academic labor market--a severe teacher shortage. It dealt on a nationwide basis with potential teachers, thus increasing visibility of…

The impact that trends in faculty positions may have on science in the United States is examined in this paper. Evidence is presented that indicates that there is a need to create new junior faculty positions on our university campuses. Three possible complementary approaches to alleviating the shortage of positions available to the increasing…

As long as blacks are underrepresented in graduate and professional schools, they will continue to be underrepresented in the professions and other policy-level positions. Historically, and today, the barriers to graduate education faced by blacks are diverse and include financial assistance, racism, recruitment practices, admissions policies,…

The purpose of the study was to provide data and interpretations to help policy makers of the Appalachian Regional Commission in improving the quality and quantity of teachers in Appalachia. Questionnaires were sent to a 20% random stratified sample of approximately 162,000 teachers in the Appalachian portions of 11 states: Alabama, Kentucky,…

As a result of the 1944 Education Act in Great Britain, many more men and women have been graduating from universities and are now going into the field of industrial management. Companies who pioneered in recruiting graduates were the British progressive 'giants' and British subsidiaries of American companies. This publication is designed to be of…

The purposes of this study were to ascertain those practices and media that induced students to enroll in technician programs, to identify practices and media used by junior colleges to promote enrollment, and to determine the relationships between effective and ineffective practices and media. Data were collected from 79 junior colleges which…

A working party of the Engineering Employees' Federation in the Lancashire and Cheshire region in England met to consider management training and development, to examine the arrangements for management training and development in large companies, and to make recommendations to small and medium sized ones. Data collected from companies through a…

This collection of 46 journal articles, compiled to provide readers with a description of all facets of the National Teacher Corps program, is intended to represent the diverse points of view of many recognized leaders in the fields of compensatory, public school, and higher education. The book is designed especially for Teacher Corps interns and…

The institute is designed to study and make recommendations for guidelines relating to the recruitment, selection, and training of teachers of trade and industrial education. The major objectives of the institute are to: (1) analyze existing programs to determine desirable qualities of trade and industrial teachers, (2) explore new sources for…

A tutoring program developed for first grade inner city children, employing student teachers as tutors, is evaluated in this report. Tutoring had no discernible effect on performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability. However, tutored children were placed in the highest reading group, and were rated as having completed the first…

The manual's purpose is to draw together the body of knowledge gained from the experience of the approximately 10,000 unpaid local citizens currently providing volunteer probation services in about 125 courts. The manual draws heavily from the core experience with the Boulder Juvenile Court, Boulder, Colorado. The first chapter presents a general…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to examine the affirmative action recruitment and hiring procedures of a selected group of public agencies and to compare them with the Federal Guidelines on Affirmative Action, and (2) using the information gathered from other agencies and the federal guidelines, to develop a model of Affirmative Action…

Sociological research on the employment patterns of youth after entry into the labor force is reviewed for possible Naval manpower policy. Current trends regarding job duration and the occupational aspirations of youth may have possible implications for Naval enlistment policies. (NTIS)

This guide is to help the employer design and implement programs to ensure fair and equal treatment for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, in all employment practices. Certain basic elements of most employment systems repeatedly have proved to result in discrimination, and certain basic steps have been found…

In the summer of 1970, the School of Library and Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) initiated an integrated 3-year undergraduate and graduate program leading to a bachelors degree in an area of the student's choice and a Masters of Library Science (MLS). Twenty-one junior year students, (nine Black or Spanish…