The handbook analyzes implications of Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 on the employment rights of handicapped persons. The first section reviews background information (including a summary of the law and regulations concerning employment) and discusses implications for hiring practices (including consideration of reasonable…

For those working and studying in American colleges and universities, collective bargaining has become an institutional reality. This bibliography represents the second in a series of publications that expand coverage of retrospective and current references to other-than-faculty personnel in higher education. Included among the citations are…

Even though a faculty member is employed on a basis other than tenure, there remains the expectation of continuing employment. Collective bargaining has not entirely removed the insecurity attached to nontenure positions, but under the conditions of a negotiated contract certain protections can be assured the faculty. Topics discussed in relation…

In this study, research and related literature were reviewed to determine major administrative problem areas in the employment of teacher aides and to develop guidelines for administration of teacher aide programs related to each of the problem areas identified. Then, with a random sampling of those Missouri school districts reporting the use of…

Miss Barbara A. Ringer, Assistant Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, filed a formal complaint of discrimination on September 2, 1971. She charged that the rejection of her application for the position of Register of Copyrights in the Library of Congress was the result of discrimination for reasons of sex and race. An analysis of the…

Examines secretarial loyalty in the face of an employer's legal or moral wrongdoing and the need for the secretarial studies education program to address this issue. (TA)

Mandatory drug testing of workers will create problems due to the low predictive ability of urinalysis. The predictive value of drug testing in populations of low drug incidence is illustrated using Bayes' Theorem. (MT)

This paper evaluates the competitiveness of Ashland University (Ohio) faculty salaries and the degree of compression present in those salaries.. Based on the results of an academic year 1992-1993 evaluation of competitiveness and compression, a program was designed and implemented to increase salary levels of Ashland University faculty and at the…

Assesses the effect of prior teaching experience on later counselor performance. (RP)

Report of the investigatory committee of the American Association of University Professors on the dismissal of sixteen faculty members from the Indiana Institute of Technology in March 1969. (PD)

Studies the problems women experience when their qualifications cause them to come into conflict with men in fields of employment previously dominated by the latter sex. (EK)

Phrenology provided a means of screening job applicants during the wave of urban immigration of the 1850s. (RA)

A conversation relating the problems of advertising for a librarian who is a member of a minority group without offending members of other groups is described. (AB)

Urges consideration of the local labor market's impact on staff supply and demand when revising salary schedules. Explains how to select job classifications for comparison, identify relevant labor markets, analyze job content, collect data on current practices in the market, analyze the data, and develop and prioritize recommendations for…