To determine the distinctive psychological characteristics of career and place bound school superintendents, response data were analyzed from 83 full-time school superintendents in the State of Oregon, of whom 53 were classified as career bound and 30 as place bound. Attitudes, interests, values, aspirations, biographical background, leadership,…

This paper aims at projecting present Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) trends into the 1970's so that association leaders can assess these directions in the light of societal conditions predicted for the 1970's, determine which trends should be changed, and identify the kind of intervention necessary to effect such changes. Projection is…

This document presents a study of 20,000 transfer applicants to 48 Massachusetts colleges and universities for fall 1973. Questionnaires and college visitations were used to obtain data. Findings indicated that much transfer articulation activity has taken place in the last three years in Masachusetts, primarily due to the efforts of the State…

This report covers the contract period from October 1, 1970-September 30, 1971. It follows earlier reports and summarizes much that has been learned about assisted relocation of rural workers to urban locations within North Carolina. These developments include attempted linkage with training programs, some successful others not and various…

The project concentrated on providing intrastate relocation assistance to disadvantaged rural workers in Mississippi, with a flexible minimum of supportive service. Assistance consisted of counseling, providing housing, travel arrangements, job interviews, job development, financial aid, and recruiting the unemployed. (Author)

Educational and occupational status projections are conceptualized as mobility linked social psychological components of more general status attainment models. Limitations of such submodels are noted and a rationale is offered. Investigating the stability and reciprocal linkage of 2 status projection variables in a subset of a Southern Youth…

The occupational transferability of skills learned in school and on the job has been studied very little. This paper reports some estimates of the monetary trade-off between specialization and occupational flexibility in the Ph.D's choice of major at undergraduate and graduate school. These estimates are based for the most part on multiple…

This survey attempts to acquire feedback for University of Georgia graduates with regard to the impact of their college experiences on their careers and on their personal and social development. Information was obtained by means of a questionnaire. This feedback could be used by the various constituencies that make up the university in many…

With demand for social welfare and rehabilitation services growing faster than the manpower supplying the services, agencies are finding it necessary to increase recruitment of new workers and to utilize available workers more efficiently. The papers in this publication were prepared as background information, initial working papers, and beginning…

Because of its failure to provide career ladders for non-management employees, the food service industry is facing increasingly severe manpower shortages and labor turnover. Unnecessary requirements bar entry workers from many jobs, and training opportunities leave much to be desired. This report identifies the problem areas and develops a model…

As part of an overall study concerned with determining the relationships between the graduates of electronics and drafting design technology curriculums and various factors, this follow-up study of Pennsylvania graduates considers a number of demographic factors. Some of the factors are: (1) marital status, (2) salaries, (3) distance from hometown…

A total of 19 charts, each with a brief narrative interpretation, present information on major features of population trends in the United States. Residents of 212 metropolitan areas (central cities with population of 50,000 or more) equalled 64 percent of the population of the U.S. in 1968. The distribution of the population differed greatly by…

The author examined the interrelationships among lagging, intermediate, and congested regions and suggested policies which should be used for each region in view of the relevant opportunity costs for location of public and private investment. Individual chapters on the South, Appalachian Region, Regional Commissions, Indians, Mexican Americans,…

Described is the BRAILLEMBOSS, a braille page printer, which is useful as a short run braille producer and as an employment and education tool for the blind and deaf blind. Examples of applications are given, including its use by computer programers, students, taxpayer service representatives, and news broadcasters. The machine is, for blind…

Identical instruments and procedures were used to collect data on military orientations from 98 Black boys who attended predominantly Black high schools in nonmetropolitan East Texas and 111 Blacks attending an all-Black high school in Houston, Texas, during the spring, 1966. The hypotheses tested were (1) that nonmetropolitan Black boys have more…