Discusses a series of seminars designed to teach situational communication skills to deaf adults and enable graduate students to improve their ability to work with the deaf. (RW)

Total faculty earnings are compared with those of other professional occupations using earnings data collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Comparisons show faculty earnings appear to be comparable to those of nonacademicians. The use of academic contract salary data results in an underrepresentation of academic earnings. (Author/MLW)

Challenging three common presuppositions concerning role orientations (the values, attitudes, and expectations associated with professional and organizational roles), a research study explores the dimensions of role orientations in five models and suggests three mechanisms generating associations among these dimensions. (WD)

Focuses on the degree of cyclical sensitivity of the fast-growing services industry. Also examines the employment growth record of the services division, including its impact on overall economic stability in the postwar period. (CT)

Data from 525 professionals and semiprofessionals were used to demonstrate that one's sex is a more important factor than occupational competencies for persons in opposite-sex-dominated occupations. The findings suggest that opposite-sex colleagues tend to ignore competence in lieu of one's sex. (Author/SK)

A survey of 482 employers showed that their hiring quotas for the 1978-79 college graduating class are up. Also discussed are survey results on high-demand occupations, starting salary levels, and employer attitudes toward affirmative action and job qualifications. (SJL)

Several factors help to explain why West Indians in the United States are occupationally more successful than West Indians in Britain: (1) the history of West Indian migration to Britain and the United States; (2) the occupational background and achievements of the migrants; and (3) race relations in the two receiving areas. (Author/MC)

Components of solar energy systems are described, the development of the solar industry discussed, and implications are drawn for employment opportunities in industries (which may expand into new, solar-related areas) and in the professions, from law to sales, upon the advent of solar heating. (AJ)

In three decades, the osteopathic profession has moved from primarily manipulative therapy to full-service health care, replacing primary care emphasis with specialization. The profession should return to its original mission of primary care, establish links with allopathic medicine, and support new national policy for primary health care.…

From 1989-90 to 1991-92, the number of nonteaching professionals in colleges and universities has risen by 4.5 percent, despite the recession and concern over "administrative bloat." Overall, employment in higher education over that period grew only 0.4 percent. Faculty numbers increased by 1.5 percent. However, personnel in all other…

Discussion of professional ethics focuses on a study by Johan Bekker that recommends a new code of ethics for librarians. Topics discussed include confidential information, extraoccupational activities, continuing education, research, occupational development, membership in occupational associations, and peer group role. A sidebar presents…

Through Eckerd College's (Florida) Academy of Senior Professionals, community members with distinguished professional or civic careers are brought on campus to offer insights, present lectures, and provide career counseling to students. Members must meet stringent requirements and pay initiation and annual fees, in return for both satisfaction and…

A planned giving officer is seen as an asset to college/university development for technical expertise, credibility, and connections. Attorneys, certified public accountants, bank trust officers, financial planners, investment advisers, life insurance agents, and real estate brokers may be qualified but probably also need training. (MSE)

The further education (FE) teaching profession in Britain is unable to form a clear professional identity. Causes include the co-existence of multiple workplace cultures in FE and the lack of formal teaching requirements for FE faculty. (SK)

Interviews and observations of three student teachers in a British further education college were intended to discover how they coped with the transition to a new professional role. Key constraints were inadequate resources, isolation, powerlessness, and problems with students. Their coping strategies were derived from personal resources and…