In working with truants, worker must remember that these youngsters need to experience adults who, unlike their parents, neither fool themselves nor are conned by a child's false promises. Fo an attendance worker to use a mental health consultant reveals mature thinking designed to make a difficult job more manageable. (Author)

Proposes that the reading specialist work with the teacher in the regular classroom, rather than conduct a separate program in another room, to facilitate early reading problem identification and instructional continuity. (RW)

Recognizing that counselors, as well as clients, need easier access to better occupational information than either can find now, a few public schools, colleges, and community agencies have assigned one or more persons to become specialists in occupational information. The authors present a model for this type of specialist. (Author/BY)

A study of presidential search processes reveals a variety of organizations, procedures, and attitudes about appropriate and effective methods. Among the issues discussed are the dominance of local standards and considerations, the roles of faculty and trustees, recruitment and nomination, interviews, premature disclosure of the decision, and…

Discusses the definition of a theoretical position on the termination of the intergenerational hierarchical boundary. Describes a therapeutic methodology for securing and completing a renegotiation of the power structures between the two generations. Implies that this therapeutic procedure has applicability to the resolution of behavioral…

Many crucial questions need to be answered before a college embarks on a construction project and makes a substantial financial commitment. Computer modeling techniques can be used to make even complex project feasibility analyses. Available from Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 345 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154. (MSE)

Areas of potential faculty liability are reviewed: evaluation of student performance, and liability for student work, for injuries to students, and as author or consultant. The emphasis is on faculty's efforts to control these aspects of their work. (MSE)

Describes the Resource Development Office (RDO) at Snow College (UT), a small, rural institution. Covers the RDO's activities, including federal, private, state, and local funding development; staff development; and alumni affairs; the RDO's administration; use of consultants; staff training; major accomplishments; budget; and requisites for…