A case study of 1100 high school teachers in a large urban district that has experienced declining enrollment for eight years illustrates several of the exit options and career mobility effects of riffing (reduction in force). The findings show that during decline, freely chosen movement out (exit), or laterally (moderate number of location…

Intended as a first-aid kit for personnel managers, this working paper is a broad attempt to relate motivation and career, with specific reference to the current career development difficulties facing staff in further and higher education. The first section reviews current knowledge about people's career expectations and perceptions to discover…

The careers of college presidents, provosts, and academic deans were studied, based on a stratified random sample of 4,000 line administrators in 1,600 accredited four-year, degree-granting institutions. Responses were obtained from 310 presidents/provosts and 1,293 deans. Attention was directed to respondents' personal, educational, and…

In view of the statistics on the high degree of mobility in the student population across the United States, it is surprising that there is so little definitive research available on the effects of mobility on the achievement and adjustment of mobile students and so few suggestions to schools about how best to provide educational services to an…

The 19th annual study of the application and enrollment patterns of transfer students provides information regarding the inter-campus mobility of students attending institutions under the program of the State University of New York (SUNY). A series of detailed tables provide data relating the transfer student's prior institutions and current SUNY…

A study tested the precursors to vocational teachers' commitment to teaching as suggested by the commitment model proposed by Pierce and Dunham. Important consequences of commitment were examined by identifying relationships between commitment, behavioral intentions, and resulting turnover. The study examined the entire population of teachers…

A positive critique of three studies on cultural assimilation of Mexican Americans ("Dimensions of the New Immigration to the United States and the Prospects for Assimilation" by Douglas Massey, a series of articles by Miriam Wells, and "Language, Mexican Immigration, and the 'Human Connection': A Perspective from the Ethnography of Communication"…

Comparative analysis of urban history illuminates similar general patterns of occcupation and residence for Blacks and Chicanos from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Distinct Black and Chicano neighborhoods in American cities were the products of "ghettoization" and "barrioization." Ghetto expansion during the early…

This report provides a general overview of the supply and demand of public school teachers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Both actual data for 1980-85 and projected estimates for 1986 to 1990 were provided. Intrinsic to the study was a comprehensive analysis of actual and projected enrollment trends; a close review of teacher availability; an…

As part of a longitudinal study of women's and coeducational college graduates, women's career salience ratings and aspirations were compared. Participants were 1979 female graduates of 15 small, private, liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States that had three selectivity levels: selective, very selective, and highly selective. A…

An employment profile of recent graduates of the University of Virginia School of Nursing was undertaken, with attention directed to factors they considered important for selecting their jobs, leaving their jobs, and selecting future jobs in nursing. A questionnaire used in a 1981 study was modified for the investigation, and the Work Environment…

Role satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and self-esteem of married graduate students were assessed with eight couples who relocated and eight couples who did not when one partner began graduate studies. Half of the couples were participants in the Couples in Transition Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The couples were…

Patterns of attrition from teaching depend on a number of social changes outside of, as well as within, education. Changes in women's reproductive and work lives and changes in the general supply and demand for college-educated workers have affected teacher attrition. Surveys conducted between 1965 and 1970 provided data which were analyzed with…

This report presents findings of a survey of female staff members (secretaries, administrative assistants, clerks, matrons, psychoeducational consultants, teachers' aides, etc) in order to gain statistical evidence on which to build programs and formulate recommendations to improve their working conditions. Questionnaires were used in the survey…

Profiles of teachers from 30 rural and 10 urban Utah school districts who left the teaching profession were gathered via school district superintendents who were asked to identify teachers who left the profession during the school year and those who left the profession following the close of school. For those who left during the school year, data…