Article describes the Educational and Career Exploration System (ECES) currently being tested in Flint, Michigan. (MB)

Describes modern quarters of placement center at University of Washington. (CJ)

Describes a career exploration program that assists college freshmen in formulating realistic and flexible personal career plans. Aspects of the program that are discussed include initial organization, technical services, guidance services, career resource center development and growth, and impact on advisement and guidance services. (CT)

Describes the creation of a counseling center at a junior college-from the planning board, through the realities of budgeting, to its final actualization. (HMV)

With limited funds and resources, one trained director and three enthusiastic student co-directors can establish a useful career counseling center which will meet the needs of both the students directing the center and those using it. Good publicity, faculty support, and staff cohesion are key ingredients. (JG)

The authors explore the relationship between the academic departments of a university and the career development of its students. They develop and illustrate a counseling intervention aimed at modifying the press of a university's academic department to make its orientation more consonant with the career development needs of its students, and they…

Reviews eleven conditions that are prerequisite for career guidance improvement to take place. Five of these conditions are (1) an expanded concept of career guidance, (2) comprehensive development programs, (3) more career guidance centers, (4) a focus on adults, and (5) equity for all. (LRA)

The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions of the counseling needs of gifted children from the perspective of parents who sought help from a fee-based counseling center for gifted students. The counseling center provided assessment and educational and career guidance, as well as family social/emotional counseling, all of which were…

This study addresses itself to these topics: (1) the current state of the art in California Career Centers, (2) those materials and programs which students are finding most helpful, (3) the effect the Career Centers are actually having on students who use them, and (4) the effectiveness of Career Centers in providing career guidance services to…

A unique, up-to-date approach to publicizing the Career Center at Cornell University has created the cartoon character, "Career Man," and enhanced student awareness. (Author)

Guidelines on how placement should fit into the total school setting and in particular into career education as it becomes better established are discussed in this paper, one of a series on critical issues in vocational-technical education. The school counselor is viewed as the coordinator of the total career guidance, counseling, and placement…

The Advising Center for Undeclared Majors (ACUM) at Florida State University provides a noncoercive atmosphere in which undecided undergraduates can explore possible academic and career areas while working toward the completion of their required general education program. (Author)

Current pressures affecting American women are cited. In response to growing demand, professionally operated counseling centers for women have multiplied. The Information and Counseling Service for Women at Yale is described, and the results of a study of a sample group of clients given. (EAK)