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Anderson, Jack D. – 1986
A proposed project at the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences at the University of Tulsa would recruit and train speech-language pathologists for service to handicapped children and youth in rural settings. The project would address the shortage of speech-language pathologists in rural communities, the lack of training programs in…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Higher Education, Job Placement, Personnel Needs
Martin, Margaret – 1986
Using the experiences of Rockland Community College (RCC) as examples, this paper suggests a number of successful cognitive and affective strategies for the educationally disadvantaged in community colleges, focusing on those which are competency based, cost effective and retention sensitive. First, trends in developmental/remedial education are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
Mid-South Regional Resource Center, Lexington, KY. – 1987
This guide deals with issues of recruitment and retention of both regular and special educators, and emphasizes the need for school administrators to upgrade or establish formalized recruitment programs. Factors impacting on teacher recruitment and retention include education reform, societal changes, demographic factors, personnel shortages, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Services, Higher Education

Crowe, Thomas A. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Nontraditional strategies for graduate student recruitment, training, and placement were developed to meet speech-language personnel shortages in northern Mississippi rural schools and to upgrade the existing services professionally. Candidates provided speech-language services in the project area simultaneously with their graduate training.…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Incentives

Dopheide, Bill; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes and evaluates a three-year, accelerated graduate education program designed to give participants a master's degree and two years of professional experience as speech-language clinicians in schools and intended to improve the supply and continuity of persons providing language, speech, and hearing services to children in rural schools.…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education