The report is based on a working meeting (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio on November 13, 1974) of research contractors involved in job analyses, job design, and job derived employment criteria. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an informal exchange of research findings and designs among the participants, most of whom were engaged in…

The history of the racial problem in the United States is discussed as it affects higher education. The role several universities are playing to ease the problem is considered, including efforts at the U.S. Military Academy to admit larger numbers of minority students. The impact of higher education for minority students on the Army is also…

The hypotheses to be tested by this study were (1) that Negro youth are more positively oriented toward participation in military service than white youth and (2) that lower class youth with high aspirations are more positively oriented toward military service than other youth. Respondents were male high school sophomores from 3 schools located in…

This document reviews Public Law 92-426 an Act establishing a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and providing scholarships to selected persons for education in medicine, dentistry, and other health professions, and for other purposes. Chapter 104 describes various aspects of the university; establishment; board of regents;…

To determine the effects of military service on subsequent criminal behavior, especially violent crimes, this study compared veteran and non-veteran felons incarcerated at the Texas Department of Corrections. Available programed data on inmates born since 1930 were supplemented by interview and questionnaire data on 200 veterans concerning…

Data in this survey indicate that high school seniors are more likely to expect or desire job training or education than they are to expect or desire to go into the military. More males expected to serve than wanted to, while more females wanted to serve than expected to. (Author/WI)

The authors feel that military recruiting should not be permitted in schools. Counselors should help students who consider enlisting look at the positive and negative aspects of military life as well as legal contractual obligations. (Author/HLM)

Parents, guardians, caregivers and school administrators will sometimes disagree over whether a student resides in a school district and can be enrolled in a district public school. The information in this manual is designed to help parents, guardians and caregivers understand the legal concepts involved in residency disputes, and to inform…

Because most military children will be enrolled in public schools at some point, an understanding of military children can assist educators in working with such children and, more broadly, with mobile children from other backgrounds. Following an introduction providing information on the numbers of military children and their unique issues, this…

This guide to financial aid programs provides Minnesota students with information on types of aid, qualifications, and how to apply. In the first section, "What is Financial Aid," the guide focuses on the purpose of financial aid, the different sources of financial aid, and how to qualify for aid. The second section, "How Do I Apply for Financial…

The author makes a case using the question of military service and its personal and social implications as the focus of concentration in secondary social studies courses, and offers some theory and techniques for introducing it into the classroom. (Author/JB)

If we do not succeed in achieving a campus more voluntary than most of ours now are, if we do not restore a widespread faith in the openness of society, then our present troubles will seem as nothing compared to what lies ahead." (Author)

Kate Haracz's daily journal for February 1970. (Editor)

Focuses on the pre-sea and in-service education and training provision for those employed as unskilled, semi-skilled workers in the three main departments in merchant ships, such as the deck department and the engine room. Discusses the emergence of the British National Sea Training schools. (CMK)