Responses from 1,728 nurses in Canadian teaching hospitals showed that job changes required new knowledge and clinical skills; 85% received orientation but felt that it only moderately prepared them. Those moving to a new unit or hospital had significantly greater need for new knowledge than those taking a new role in the same unit. (SK)

Explores why, whether they come from politics, business, or the military, people who move to academe after substantial careers in other fields face a unique set of challenges. (EV)

Case examples of the experiences of a counselor-in-training illustrate the benefits of a holistic career counseling model that incorporates personal/emotional issues. The model is especially appropriate for older students or adults experiencing career transitions. (SK)

Although unemployment is at a 30-year low and corporate profits are surging, much of today's work force cannot afford the education and training needed to succeed in the New Economy. Public funding for training and upgrading may be needed to replace disappearing career ladders. (JOW)

Reports on controversy Brown University (Rhode Island) as Gordon Gee leaves to become chancellor of Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) after only two years as president of Brown, and notes feelings of betrayal in light of large compensation offered Gee by Vanderbilt. Reports average tenures for college presidents and quotes Gee as saying that he…

Examined the occupational stability of 1992-1993 bachelor's degree recipients, examining whether those who were teaching in 1994 were more or less likely that those who were working in other occupations in 1994 to have left the workforce or to be working in a different occupation by 1997. (Author/SLD)

The life stories of seven female midcareer elementary principals in Israel who transferred to new schools depicted a process of self-renewal, including coping with lack of fulfillment, setting new goals, reframing perspectives, and seeking new challenges. Interorganizational transition appeared either to evoke the process or to be stimulated by…

This brief article focuses on the career and accomplishments of Coordinator of Information Services, New York Public Library (NYPL), Jane Fisher. Her professional and academic career has spanned the fields of librarianship, health care, and public administration. Based on her most recent experiences and advancements, she has learned how libraries…

This article describes how the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is recreating America's community colleges through a partnership with the Virginia Department of Education (VA DOE). VCCS is doing this as a provider of a fast-track teacher-licensure program designed to increase the supply of teachers in some of Virginia's critical-shortage…

Attracting and retaining competent teachers is a key concern when it comes to managing the supply and demand for teachers. This article examines the motivation that prompts people to enter or leave the teaching profession with the aim of identifying a decision framework for defining teacher policies. The results are based on the teacher workforce…

In an anecdotal style, this paper offers personal observations on moving from one forensic position to another. It draws on one forensic coach's experiences with five different kinds of programs, discussing in turn the comprehensive Ph.D. university, the graduate teaching assistant administered program, the graduate teaching assistant in a faculty…

A study investigated the personal and career choices that motivate an educator's departure from active involvement in forensics activities, and what trends, if any, exist concerning what former directors do in place of forensics. The study also investigated how forensics participation as a coach/director impacted on the individual, and what…

Many retired persons return to work, to some extent, following their retirement. Data from the 1982 New Beneficiary Survey (NBS) of 4,212 women and 5,307 men were examined to determine the employment of retired-worker beneficiaries who were working 18-30 months after first receiving retired-worker benefits. According to the NBS data, over…

Michael Scott, starting from the bottom as a dropout and using the Job Corps, the Marines, the State Employment Service, the Veterans Administration, and the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA), has moved up from trainee at the MDTA Skill Center to office manager. (BP)

This paper proposes to offer guidance and a decision tree checklist to those professional, federal, state, municipal, charitable and educational institutional employees who are not privy to relocation expense packages and are thereby left to their own devices to accomplish the move. (Author)