The theme articles discuss cooperative education as an integral part of a well-rounded educational program. They indicate that cooperative education-supervised occupational experiences may serve the needs of students and industry and provide the bridge between education and the real world of work. (JOW)

Reviews the literature and difficulties of school follow-up studies. Describes the purpose, design, and methodology of the Peel Secondary Follow-up study. Shows how results from the first round of the study raise important issues about students' expectations and how they are or are not borne out. (SB)

The author documents responses to challenge and change posed by technology in the past. He suggests that technology is a productive human challenge, capable of revolutionizing both work and education. (CT)

Argues that, if business discourse involves a me-you transaction where both writer and reader stand to benefit, then business writers must be shown to analyze themselves as well as their audiences. (FL)

Presents an interview with the three authors of a report on jobs and education in the future. Topics discussed include (1) job opportunities and salary differences in the 1990s, (2) the relationship between schooling and work, (3) attitude changes, and (4) changes in the character and structure of employment. (MCG)

Academic managers in state bureaucracies are changing their expectations of faculty roles in terms of faculty productivity in: training students for "high tech, high cost, high return" jobs; securing more research monies; serving the public by linking research to industrial revitatlization. The SUNY-Buffalo experience is described.…

Describes the development and evaluation of a job-related curriculum for higher education programing in criminology designed, in part, to increase students' ability to produce and use evaluation research, and to stimulate commitment to using research in order to promote change from below. (RDN)

A comparison of first-semester college students in Austria, West Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Yugoslavia looks at their fields, motivations for learning, perceptions and expectations of the university environment and its demands and rewards, and the relationships between employment prospects, subject orientation, and learning motivation.…

Proposes that student familiarity with the various kinds of documents produced in industry will reduce the shock of discovering the difference between writing for the classroom and writing for business and industry. (EL)

Describes the methods, success, and future prospects of Jobs for America's Graduates, a nonprofit program encouraging cooperation between schools and private employers in identifying, training, and finding suitable employment for students lacking job skills as high school seniors. The program serves 8,000 students annually in eight states. (PGD)

Presents a writing assignment that requires lawyers in a technical writing class to address the needs of a client who is unhappy with a lawyer and with the language used by the lawyer in a legal document. (FL)

Reevaluates the impact that Kenneth Koch's 1970 collection of children's poetry, "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams," has had on its contributors. (MM)

Essays discuss (1) a business communications class assignment in writing letters of commendation for products or services, (2) a heuristic approach to improving oral reports, and (3) a controlled walkthrough approach for analytical report writing. (HTH)

The current need for trained workers and the need to increase employment make necessary increased participation in postsecondary education, revamped curricula emphasizing communicative and computational competence, comprehensive training programs, and cost-effectiveness. Until these are accomplished, demands for increased per-student resources…

The crisis in the humanities is linked to society's prevalent attitudes which assume that the humanities are extraneous to the real needs of society. The humanities can help in "developing a moral and imaginative framework for action." (MLW)