Guidelines are given for arranging for guest speaking engagements by authors and illustrators. Included are suggestions on protocol; publisher's and host's responsibilities; arranging advance publicity; financial arrangements; hotel accommodations; and establishing initial contact with potential guest speakers. (JPF)

The key to successful management of staffing during decline, this paper says, is advance planning. It suggests several steps to take via analyzing, prioritizing, economizing, and publicizing before reduction in force hits the school. Administrators should make projections and predictions on enrollments, revenues and expenditures and facilities and…

Because the needs of mature students are so radically different than the 18-22 year-old student, it is essential that student personnel workers respond to these needs by creating specially designed orientation and extra-curricular programs. This document offers an itemization of all factors that must be considered in designing a complete program…

An overview of contemporary ideas regarding in-service vocational-technical education is presented in brief outline. In-service education is defined (as a "planned, goal-directed change process") and guidelines for planning, organizing, and conducting in-service education, consistent with the definition, are given. Key points are reiterated and…

These three documents offer an overview of the efforts of the University of North Carolina to implement the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) in its constituent institutions. Included are a preliminary statement, defining and offering general information regarding the CEU; a speech examining its development, applications, and future; and a guide…

An Administration spokesman calls upon vocational educators to evaluate their role in education and manpower training in terms of contemporary circumstances. Excerpts from his address are published here. (Editor)

The three broad goals of career education--learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living--should be integrated into a lifelong educational process for the prime purpose of assisting every individual to become a fully capacitated, self-motivated, self-fulfilled, contributing member of society. The "guidelines" consider the role…

This plan states as a major purpose the gathering of feedback information and offers twenty-one questions probing the limits and possibilities of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU), a basic unit of measurement of organized continuing education experience. It includes the Georgia Plan, presenting possible methods of implementation, administration…

The purpose of this workshop, held June 8, 1971, was to develop guidelines for planning career development programs for Grades K-12. Seven persons from various universities throughout the United States presented papers. The presenters, their positions, and their topics were: (1) Kenneth E. Hoeltzel, Assistant Professor of Education at State…

This package of instructional materials was designed to give workshop participants a practical experience with specific problems or situations, as well as criteria to use when developing written material for a variety of library instruction situations. Content consists of guidelines for developing written materials, some design and printing…

Twenty-eight committee members, representing educational institutions, professional associations, public agencies, and the public-at-large, participated in a meeting to provide guidance in a 4-year project undertaken by UCLA to develop exemplary instructional programs for the continuing education of existing allied health personnel and for the…

The proceedings of the National Outdoor Education Conference include 3 addresses on outdoor education and camping and 3 workshops reports, representing the input of some 60 delegates from every part of Canada. Emphasizing living and learning, quality of life, and utilization of the environment, the speeches are aimed at defining and clarifying the…

Schools have been encouraged by recent legislation to develop vocational programs for all students interested in any phase of agriculture. In 1968, a total of 524,775 high school students were enrolled; 26 percent were engaged in off-farm agricultural education programs. The 12,000 teachers of these students also conducted programs for…