Examined student recruitment into an alcohol prevention program within neighborhood and magnet inner-city middle schools, noting student retention through one-month posttest and one-year followup. At one month, dropouts were more at risk for alcohol use initiation than nondropouts. At one year, dropouts were more likely to initiate alcohol and…

Problems associated with the use of technology in the college classroom are outlined, including instructional issues such as poorly functioning equipment, lack of quality in courses delivered by technology, and problems with generic presentations, as well as administrative concerns such as over-promotion of technology-based learning to students,…

Presents lessons learned in four years of renovating school libraries in Cleveland, Ohio: build a team, fund raising, design tips (layout, furniture, color, windows, floors, theme), bargain hunting, staff recruiting, and timelines. With a small amount of money, volunteers, imagination, and hard work any library media center can be transformed into…

Contains 16 articles exploring the following: the impact of sociodemographic change on long-term care; current concerns and future challenges in recruiting and retaining health care workers; the responses of social work, geriatric medicine, nurse practitioner, and allied health educators to the growing demand; and the increased need for volunteer,…

Focuses on the role of community colleges as education providers for population segments needing foreign language education. The article emphasizes the need to hire foreign language teachers with appropriate credentials, qualifications, and motivation and delineates interviews conducted with potential teaching candidates. (one reference) (CK)

Discusses the paucity of African Americans as administrators and educational leaders in college and university health, physical education, and recreation departments; suggests some barriers to ethnic diversity at such levels and proposes several strategies to open more leadership positions to African Americans. (MDM)

Examines the growing trend towards corporate-sponsored training in business and industry. Discusses elements of a corporate university and the benefits this type of training provides for employers and employees. Interviews staff from three corporations to obtain their opinions of corporate-sponsored training. (SNR)

Examines the impact of the standards reform movement on students, schools, and universities, exploring challenges inherent in efforts to recruit, prepare, certify, and retain highly qualified teachers to serve the increasingly diverse 21st century classroom. Explains how the future of millions of poor and minority U.S. children rests in the hands…

Because high school students are constantly bombarded with information, they have adapted to quickly screen only the information they want. E-mail is perhaps the most underused online method of delivering personalized, customized information to prospective students. While the Internet will not replace paper and ink, it will be a combination of…

Reviews the literature on Indigenous Australian and other nontraditional student recruitment and retention, finding most current approaches to have limited, ad hoc aims and objectives. Recommends a comprehensive and integrated approach to recruiting and retaining these students. (EV)

A program in rural Alberta (Canada) used retired teachers to mentor beginning teachers. Surveys and interviews with 24 proteges and 21 mentors indicated that the recruitment of experienced mentors, the provision of money, the establishment of a sense of community, and the provision of time for reflection all contributed to the program's success.…

Suggestions for restructuring marketing efforts within colleges and universities stress the institution's primary profit center: student recruitment and retention. Techniques such as continuous quality improvement and implementation of a task force concept are recommended as a way of synergistically employing all the institution's assets and…

Project IMPART (Improving Minority Professionals' Access to Research Tracks), a collaboration between a bachelor's and an associate degree nursing program, is designed to accelerate the academic mobility of nursing students and prepare them to address minority health issues and formulate goals about research. (SK)

Academic libraries are turning increasingly to internship/residency programs to enhance recruitment efforts. Outlines necessary components of an evaluation model for internship/residency programs based on a survey of academic library deans/directors and program coordinators. Identifies key evaluation factors that library administrators consider…

This paper discusses representations of women teachers' work in early twentieth-century state schools, especially well-qualified and experienced women who taught in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. While there is a range of discourses that could be applied to these members of the profession, the paper focuses on three discourses in…