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PDF pending restorationRigolot, Carol, Ed. – 1977
Life insurance executives, university administrators, faculty, and young humanists held a conference to determine how these young humanists might serve business and how business organizations might help alleviate the current crisis in academia. The topics discussed were the following: "The Situation in Academia Today"; "What Has Been Done to…
Descriptors: Business, Career Change, Career Opportunities, Career Planning
American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, DC. – 1983
These proceedings are from a conference that brought together representatives of the life and health insurance business, the private sector, labor, education, and government to address the literacy problem. An executive summary is followed by an introduction to the proceedings that gives an overview of the 11 presentations and by the opening…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textConsortium on Financing Higher Education, Cambridge, MA. – 1981
Proceedings of a 1980 Brown University conference on faculty retirement are presented. Papers and authors are as follows: "A Review of Current Legal Status and National Policy Issues" (Laura C. Ford); "Mandatory Retirement Age Legislation for Tenured Faculty: The Policy Issues and Their Context" (W. Lee Hansen);…
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Contracts, Economic Climate
Rigolot, Carol, Ed. – 1979
Presidents of southern colleges, universities, and life insurance companies met to develop strategies southern academic institutions might adopt to survive the 1980s. Inflation, faculty malaise, and the erosion of quality were the primary fiscal issues on the agenda, although declining enrollment figures also troubled many of the academic leaders…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, College Role, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance
Rigolot, Carol, Ed. – 1978
Forty colleges and life insurance presidents met to discuss key historical and contemporary factors influencing fiscal management in higher education, including inflation, salaries, diminishing enrollment figures, energy costs, federal regulations and the increasing cost of research. Differences and similarities between business and academia were…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, College Role, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance
1980
This collection of 22 papers examines various word processing (WP) technologies, systems, and applications. The first five papers by C. Briggs, C. Taylor, G. McLean, D. Remsen, and C. Norris discuss WP applications in the Army, a WP system for an insurance firm, the organization of the International Word Processing Association, WP fundamentals,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Automation, Career Ladders, Communications
Curtin, Penelope, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 31 papers from a conference on future training issues in Australia's industries. The following papers are included: "Training Development in Australia" (Chris Ellison); "Meeting National and Employer Training Requirements" (Mark Paterson); "Meeting Employee Training Requirements" (Bill Mansfield);…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agriculture, Building Trades, Case Studies
