This research brief from Miami-Dade Community College (Florida) addresses fundable outcomes for workforce development. Workforce development funding depends on the ability to earn 'points' for completions and placements. Miami-Dade Community College produced 7,542 fundable outcomes for 1999-2000, compared with 3,966 for 1998-1999. These included…

This report presents the results of a Rio Hondo College (California) survey of Workforce Development/CalWORKS participants. The survey was designed to measure service quality and provide information for any needed areas of improvement in Workforce Development/CalWORKS services. Approximately 269 surveys were mailed to participants, with a response…

Examines the role of community colleges in expanding the supply of information technology (IT) workers. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, the authors find contrasting evidence on the importance of these institutions. Analysis of the 1994 and 1999 Current Population Survey and interviews with large IT employers indicate that…

This packet contains three papers from a symposium on assessing the learning organization. The first paper, "Relationship between Learning Organization Strategies and Performance Driver Outcomes" (Elwood F. Holton III, Sandra M. Kaiser), reports on a study of a new learning organization assessment instrument that was administered to 440…

This publication contains the final report of the task of the Ohio State Legislative Service Commission (LSC) Study Committee on Job Training and Workforce Development Programs. The task was to review the state's job training and workforce development programs and formulate a plan to centralize the programs under one state agency. Section 1 of the…

A community college president brought a student affairs background with him as he assumed his first presidency. That perspective was an influencing factor in the organizational development initiatives at the institution in the first decade of his service. In this submission to the "Community College Times," he develops the position that…

The employment counselor outlook for this decade is good if the needs of youth, older workers, women, and the handicapped are provided for. Short-term curtailment and redirection of counseling staff in state agencies will result from the phasing down of categorical programs and from funding restraints. In the long run, though, there will be a…

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Article reported on the findings of a survey on modern languages and their usage in employment. (RK)

Article presents a profile of associate degree mental health worker programs, considered the mental health worker curricula, and the role of the National Institute of Mental Health in developing manpower needs in mental health. (Author/RK)

The author responds to Mr. Sanyal's comments which preceed his and which are addressed to the author's article ("Prospects," v2, n4, Winter 72) by discussing the issues of over-expansion of higher education in developing countries and the usefulness of manpower-forecasting in educational planning. (JH)

Describes a program that moves apprentices more quickly into journeyman-level jobs and makes use of correspondence work to supplement on-the-job training. (Author/MU)

Discusses the meanings of patents for inventions and registered designs and trade marks and the training and duties of a patent agent. Indicates that harmonization of the industrial property is taking place with Britain's entry into the European Economic Cooperation. (CC)