Describes the key features of a new and unconventional teacher preparation program intended to provide urban minority students with skills and incentive to be educators. Discusses how the success of the program will be evaluated. Describes the Urban Teacher Program in Michigan, a collaboration among two school districts and three colleges. (JS)

Scholars who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups are being actively recruited, feeding resentment and concern among White faculty, who feel squeezed out. However, minority professors find that, although the situation has improved for some, the trend does not extend to all minority faculty. (MSE)

A survey of 204 graduate students at a small regional university concerning choice of major, personal and occupational history, vocational preferences, and self-monitoring behaviors found students chose majors based on program quality and career opportunities. Results suggest recruitment of older students could be enhanced through attention to…

An eight-week residential program at the University of California at Irvine aims to increase representation of Native American students in high-tech fields and to encourage transfer of Native American students to four-year programs. Students spend four weeks in intensive computer science classes and four weeks serving as interns at sponsoring…

Analyzes three key areas community colleges should focus on when planning for the future: finding new sources of financial support, recruiting students, and assessing institutional effectiveness. (JDI)

Colleges competing to offer distance education are using aggressive marketing tactics to gain visibility. Some observers wonder whether educational interests or marketing agencies are driving the trend. The agencies offer varied services, including course creation, course conversion to electronic format, faculty training for online teaching,…

Traces the history of student academic library employees and reviews the related literature on the changing role of library student assistants. Highlights include changes in libraries' organizational structures; and administrative issues concerning recruitment, interviewing, training, motivation, and employee retention. (LRW)

Offers a checklist for implementing sustainable learning communities in colleges and universities. Addresses issues including determining focus and design, use of faculty resources, coordination with current institutional initiatives, administrative support needed, resources needed, promotion and marketing, institutionalization of the concept, and…

United States teachers must be excellent, and they should resemble the U.S. student body in their diversity. Two approaches taken by the U.S. Department of Education, the "Recruiting New Teachers for Underserved Areas" program and the "Lighthouse Partnership Program," are aimed at increasing teacher diversity. (SLD)

Illuminates the beginning steps in learning to teach: gaining new knowledge and transforming it for purposes of teaching. Working with people not expert in Jewish content or pedagogy, the authors tried to foster substantive understandings and an attitude toward teaching that favors engagement of students with texts and serious ideas. (DSK)

Describes structure, content, participants, staffing, rationale, and impact of a program to recruit and train avocational teachers for synagogue schools. Discusses initial successes and four challenges that prompted revisions in the program and questioning of basic assumptions. Emphasizes training over recruitment, and the necessity of involving…

Hiring men for child care positions requires a change in recruitment strategies, and retaining men requires a change in workplace practices. Advertisements to target men, and thoughtfully planned interviews can aid in the hiring process. Safe, protected workplaces in which male employees feel valued equally to female peers will encourage men to…

Discussion of the decreasing percentage of bachelor's degrees awarded to males focuses on societal trends that have resulted in changing worlds for boys and men. Issues identified include the growing gender imbalance in higher education, managing male aggression, and the need to identify and reconsider what and how educational services are…

Discusses the Kentucky Principal Internship Program, a collaboration between the Jefferson County Public School District and the University of Louisville. Development programs include a Principals for Tomorrow internship program, administrator skills and leadership seminars, technology awareness sessions, and an IDEAS certification enrollment…

This article summarizes issues in recruitment and retention in graduate school programs in general and in speech-language pathology programs specifically. These include campus and program climate, admissions criteria, national trends in cultural diversity, and the lack of research on diversity in speech-language pathology programs. It notes that…