With a little money, some top students, and a well coordinated plan, Earlham College's career planning and placement office has one-to-one contact with all its underclass students. (Author)

University of Texas at Arlington combined services in counseling and placement in response to the mutuality of many of their functions. This article gives the advantages and disadvantages to combining those services, and goes on to explain the delivery system of the services and the varied programs available. (Author)

The WCPA Vera Christie Award enabled the author to research ways college recruiters could help counsel students. (Author)

A group of graduate students solve the problem of too little time or staff for liberal arts career counseling. (Author)

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)

One small college found that recruiting interviews need not be conducted in person in order to be effective. They use the telephone and agree that it's "the next best thing to being there." (Author)

While the responsibilities of career planning and placement are rapidly increasing, staff size often remains the same. In answer to this problem, two small liberal arts colleges have developed a cooperative program resulting in more time for student and employer services. (Author)

Suggests that placement, like cooperative education, can function better in academic affairs rather than student affairs. Describes the combination of the two departments at the University of South Florida and discusses advantages and disadvantages of a combined program. (JAC)

This article describes a program introduced at Moravian College in Pennsylvania aimed at helping students relate their liberal arts education to positions in a technology oriented society. (Author)

The article describes a program designed to help individuals by teaching them to identify connections between successes in life, and to recognize emerging patterns that may be relevant to career direction. (Author)

The separation between work and education is common to many liberal arts institutions. One such institution is fighting this concept by offering career experiences outside the academic environment. (Author)

A placement office tries to help liberal arts graduates out of the frustrating dilemma of having been educated to deal with society's broader problems, but being bypassed by recruiters seeking only technical graduates. (Author)

Communication between the career planning and placement office and the students at one institution was a problem until the inception of a mobile information center. (Author)

A small budget and limited resources need not prevent placement offices from initiating new programs. Article describes office where students have access to a diversity of career services such as pre-college counseling for freshmen and, for sophomores, on-the-job contact with alumni. (Author/PC)

A placement service finds that nothing can beat a computerized student retrieval system, one that is tailored to their needs and several generations more advanced than their initial "Shoebox." (Author)