Educators are currently confronting two divergent messages regarding the occupational needs of the future--"high tech" and service economy. These two views of the future world of work imply opposite strategies on how to prepare youth for tomorrow's jobs. (MLW)

Discusses the binder method approach to teaching business report writing, explains its basic procedures, its organizational advantages, its time saving qualilty, and its adaptation to more than one user at different locations or different times. (EL)

The author went to graduate school, despite a warning that Ph.D's have difficulty finding jobs. Now he believes too many good students heeded the warning, leaving graduate schools populated with merely competent rather than challengingly intellectual graduate students just when a developing wave of college students will require hiring new…

A master's degree program at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) is sequenced to provide teachers with the skills to become effective agents in facilitating successful postschool adjustment of severely handicapped students. Competencies and curriculum are outlined for the role of transition/liaison specialist. (CL)

Reviews the benefits of cooperative education programs for colleges, students, faculty, and employers. Highlights the growth of cooperative education programs, federal support, and problems and potential solutions. Suggests areas for future research. (HB)

A summary of a study of optometry graduates conducted by the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) is provided. The data covered aspects of recently graduated O.D.s' experience in obtaining a state license, becoming established in practice, and their practice characteristics. (Author/MLW)

The Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) approach is discussed and strategies of providing career development experiences at preschool/elementary, middle school/junior high school, senior high and postsecondary/lifelong learning levels. LCCE's competencies are reviewed in terms of daily living, personal-social, and occupational skills. (CL)

Describes a program that prepares students to be total journalists, by placing all reporting, editing, and management students, both print and broadcast, in one learning community--the integrated news center. (HTH)

Geography enrollments are down, and geography is in trouble because it has been slow to respond to the new environment of higher education. Important trends in higher education are identified, and ways geographers can respond positively to the trends are discussed. (RM)

Human capital theory postulates that individuals and society invest in people to increase financial and nonmonetary income in the future. Liberal education, the study of a range of disciplines that develop lifetime intellectual skills and personal abilities, meets the standards of human capital investment. (MLW)

Describes a study indicating that the core of reporters covering higher education consistently and well is too small. Discusses recommendations given by the subjects to increase the number of writers giving consistent attention to higher education on daily newspapers. (HTH)

Describes an assignment in which students in a public relations case problems and management class are introduced to the kinds and depth of research that public relations professionals undertake. (HTH)

Describes a communication assignment that require business communication students to interview business executives. (FL)

Discusses the growing demand that freshman English courses prepare students to write for the world of work. (AEA)

The issue of preprofessionalism is discussed. The term is applied to various occupational paths, certain vocational skills, and specific career areas and is also used to characterize those students who are supposedly fitted with intellectual blinders as they pursue a narrow career path through a tightly defined program of study. (MLW)