The ways that alumni can contribute to career assistance programs and programs at 13 private schools, colleges, and universities are described in this handbook. In an introductory chapter, Adelaide M. Zagoren shows that career assistance programs help students find practical uses for their education, assist the institution evaluate the results of…

Part of a multi-campus comparative evaluation of National Second Step Programs (NSSP), this technical supplement contains data collected from a sample of 800 students, graduates, and faculty of the first six accredited second step programs in nursing education as well as copies of survey instruments used in the study. It consists of five sections.…

Brief descriptions are provided on 89 college and university programs offered in social work at the master or doctoral level. This report presents information about the programs of accredited graduate programs of social work and those schools working toward accreditation. The content areas of social welfare policy and services, human behavior and…

The 26th annual survey of public elementary and secondary education conducted in fall 1979 by the National Center for Education Statistics yielded data on school districts, enrollment, administrative and teaching staffs, pupil-teacher ratios, high school completions (graduations and equivalency certificates), revenue sources, and expenditures,…

Characteristics of the Japanese university and future issues, including the university's research role, are considered. More than 75 percent of university students and 91 percent of junior college students in Japan attend private institutions. Japanese universities are scattered unevenly geographically, and often they offer only certain fields of…

Designed to apply basic principles of career education to graduate education, this monograph focuses on (1) reshaping graduate education to make Ph.D.s more employable, (2) placement of Ph.D.s, and (3) necessary complementary changes in faculty and administrative culture. Chapter 1 briefly discusses efforts to redefine the mission of the academic…

Prepared to aid decision makers at local, state, and national levels in planning and assessing vocational education in Wisconsin, this composite report presents data from the first phase of the evaluation system of secondary vocational education--the Self Evaluation Phase. Chapter 1 overviews the evaluation activities and the remainder of this…

A summer Career Guidance Institute, conducted for graduate credit, placed 16 secondary teachers in entry-level positions in jobs not requiring college education for six weeks. The teachers worked four days a week and attended seminars and group discussions one day a week. Study of this pilot program was conducted to investigate three questions:…

Full-time and part-time undergraduate enrollments in 15 public universities in Alabama were projected by sex for 1981-89. Additionally, state, regional, and national projections of undergraduate enrollments for the 1980s are made, based on a review of the literature. Alabama public high school graduates are projected in order to project full-time,…

A pilot study was conducted to identify sex role factors which could affect the search for employment and the adjustment to employment for vocational graduates in selected occupational areas. Target employment areas were identified through a review of occupations with a disproportionate composition by one sex or the other. These included…

Projections for North Dakota postsecondary education enrollment for the 1980s are presented. Attention is directed to population-related factors such as the number of live births, patterns of migration, elementary school enrollment, the number of high school graduates, and the size of the adult population. Other factors affecting postsecondary…

A comprehensive literature review and case studies of three community colleges and one technical institute were conducted as part of a study to determine the economic and educational factors which relate positively or negatively to the successful placement of students who have completed postsecondary vocational programs. Data gathered through…

Phase 2 of a three-phase project examined the secondary education background and employment adjustment of handicapped youth in rural counties in Florida. (Phase 1 was a pilot study.) Subjects were former special education students in five rural project counties who had been identified as needing services in the area of educable mental retardation,…

A study was conducted to identify the variables that are relevant to the admission of foreign students by institutional decision-makers. A profile of foreign students at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is provided. All academic departments at NCSU at Raleigh with enrollments of 10 or more foreign graduate students were contacted to…

Successful performance on the California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) gives high school students the option of leaving school early with the equivalent of a high school diploma. After two years and eight CHSPE administrations, the number of participating students remains low. Possible reasons for this are given, including lack of…