Developing a strong rapport with salesmen is the purchasing director's best procurement strategy. (Editor)

Discusses the field of marketing as a career option. Includes information on all the different aspects of marketing as well as earnings and educational requirements. Has a section of resources for more information. (JOW)

Biographies are an important resource for extending and differentiating the curriculum for high-ability learners. To include biography in curriculum, educators need answers to the following four questions: (1) How are commercially available biographies located?; (2) What criteria are useful in selecting biographies for high-ability learners?; (3)…

Sensing that their libraries are in competition with local bookstores that offer leisurely atmospheres, warm aromatic drinks, and prominently displayed books and other materials by genre, many librarians have considered "shelving" the Dewey decimal system in order to rearrange their libraries in a similar fashion. The author of this article, a…

This support document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Approaches to Measuring and Understanding Employer Training Expenditure," and is an added resource for further information. As outlined in the report, the research for this study was based on interviews and case studies, analysis of other research…

The need to increase US competitiveness in the world economy is a driving factor in the recent push to internationalize university campuses across the country. Technical and subject area expertise are no longer sufficient to succeed in the 21st-century global workplace. Intercultural competence is becoming more valued as part of the desired…

Providing a degree of service to both students and faculty, the school-store concept offers educational relevance rarely achieved in other departments of the comprehensive modern high school. (Author)

Excerpts from a talk presented at the Third Annual Industry Seminar sponsored by the American School Food Service Assn. in Vail, Colorado, Sept. 23-27, 1968.

Describes the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) effort to develop productivity measures for an increasing number of service industries. Discusses problems of measuring productivity and explains how BLS is working to overcome those problems. (JOW)

Improvement of turnover (the rate of merchandise activity in a store) can mean more sales and more profits for college stores. Some ways to improve merchandise turnover include improved store layout, merchandise mix, and purchasing techniques. (MLW)

Responses from 38 of 184 retailing graduates, 24 of 111 recruiters in the apparel field, 58 of 200 retail merchandising educators, and 45 of 47 current students found that differences in their ratings of the importance of 53 competencies for entry workers centered on three factors: merchandising, leadership, and monitoring. (SK)