Universities are looking for new ways to reallocate resources to meet the changes in high- and low-demand courses. Four alternative strategies are discussed including: limit enrollment in high-demand areas, accommodate demand by having large classes, faculty members in high-demand areas, and retrain or reallocate faculty. (MLW)

Three forces are combining to mandate a more highly skilled work force: (1) technological advancement, (2) job growth centered on high-skill occupations, and (3) new work organizational strategies. As many as 50 million workers, many of them minorities and immigrants, may have to be trained or retrained in the next 12 years. (CH)

The authors discuss such societal changes as aging of the population, women and minorities in the labor force, decline of industry and growth of service jobs, and creation and elimination of jobs by technology. Within this context, they present strategies to integrate education and work to cope with change. (CH)

Faced with dwindling resources, some colleges and universities have experimented with a variety of staffing alternatives, but good staffing strategies must be realistic, flexible, and fair to all involved. (Author/MSE)

In 1998, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools established a fifteen-member Task Force to study the practices and procedures employed in adult degree completion programs. An adult degree completion program is identified as one that is designed especially to meet the needs of the working adult who, having acquired sixty or more…

This report is the fourth review of the accomplishments of Washington's 32 two-year colleges under the provisions of the Worker Retraining program. It provides detailed information about program results, with findings indicating that: (1) workers who participate in programs are finding good jobs at high salary levels, with 81% of all worker…

Introduces the problem of widespread worker displacement. Argues the problem is more severe in regions where the employment base centers on a single industry or resource. Considers two government programs developed to address the need resulting from closure of the Canadian northern cod fishery and decline of the mining industry in England. (CAJ)

Discusses characteristics identified by the Center for Occupational Research and Development as indicative of fully functioning advanced technology centers, including the provision of training and retraining in such areas as design, manufacturing, materials science, and electro-optics; technology transfer; demonstration sites; needs assessment;…

Research on the utility of feedback to raters in the form of performance reports has produced mixed findings (Lunt, Morton, & Wigglesworth, 1994; Wigglesworth, 1993) and has thus far been trialled only in oral assessment contexts. This article reports on a study investigating raters' attitudes and responsiveness to feedback on their ratings of…

Since 1976, Mississippi's Itawamba Community College (ICC) and Tecumseh Products Company (TPC) have maintained a cooperative relationship providing the firm with support and services stemming from ICC's Skill/Tech One-Stop Career Center. The support offered to TPC has included the following: (1) since 1976, 105 pre-employment classes have been…

A study ascertained training, retraining, consulting, and technical support needs of small manufacturing companies in Ohio. Data were obtained from nine service areas of Ohio's two-year educational institutions to determine what human, technical, and physical assets campuses should make available. A survey instrument was designed to provide…

Both Germany and Great Britain have recently experienced increases in unemployment. Both countries have developed substantial labor market programs. Germany offers full-time adult training and retraining courses for employed and unemployed persons. Great Britain has a system of youth training but, until recently, has done little for adults. It has…

A pilot research study examined the perspectives of workers in the machining, automotive repair, and printing and graphic arts industries on skill usage and the effects of technological change in the workplace. Research was conducted using site visits, job-shadowing, and in-depth interviews to develop the survey instrument, which was completed by…

To respond to local industry training needs, Broome Community College (BCC), in Binghamton, New York, has long provided long and short term training, workshops, seminars, and credit courses for regional companies and forged ongoing partnerships with local businesses. One such partnership has been formed with Universal Instruments (UI), a…

Missouri's vocational education delivery system provided a full range of programs, services, and activities for students in secondary, postsecondary, and adult institutions during fiscal year 1993. Some highlights of these activities are the following: (1) the system was composed of 418 local education agencies (LEAs), including 397 comprehensive…