To assess the attitudes of Alabama public school speech-language pathologists toward various aspects of their employment, an attitudes assessment instrument was completed by 272 practicing public school clinicians. The first section of the instrument contained items pertaining to the respondents' years of experience, tenure status, and degree…

Using census data from pre-Civil War Georgia at two points in time (1850 and 1860), this paper describes the Georgian publishing industry and profiles those involved in it. Microfilm editions of handwritten documents were scanned to find the names and other data (residence, job title, age, sex, place of birth, and value of property owned) of those…

The relationship of measures of academic ability and grades with high level accomplishment was examined by extensively reviewing a wide ranging literature. This literature included studies of the highly creative, scientists and technicians, physicians, high- and middle-level managers, and high school and college students. The Terman studies of the…

Investigation of mental health and job satisfaction by means of Kornhauser's (1965) questionnaire appears to demonstrate the existence of at least six factors concerned with personal life adjustment. There was a failure to find any substantial relationship between mental health and job satisfaction. (Author)

The Special Labor Force Report examines the job status in October 1972 of recent college graduates, their job hunting methods, the relationship of their jobs to their major fields of study, their earnings, and their assessment of the career potential of their jobs. (Author/MW)

Intended for use by State vocational education directors and curriculum planners, this guide documents the results of a project which developed and applied a process for identifying new and emerging occupations for skilled and technical areas, part of a larger effort to assist the alignment of vocational and technical program offerings with new…

The faculty at Madison College (Virginia) were surveyed to document the array of activities that command the energy and effort of the college's instructional faculty. Information about the kinds of activities in which faculty are engaged and indications of the relative effort devoted to each constitute important inputs for analysis of the way in…

The stated purposes of this testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, is to summarize some studies of the economic situation made by the Urban League and to discuss some of the implications of an analysis of the occupational and transportation difficulties of the urban disadvantaged. (Author/JM)

Reasons for leaving the profession of medical technology were determined through a survey of 83 technologists' attitudes and demographic characteristics. Information was obtained on the age of respondents, year of certification, number of years experience as a medical technologist, and number of years as a member of the American Society for…

This manual presents a system of precedures constructed to improve occupational student follow-up in California community colleges. First, introductory material describes the development of the Student Accountability Model (SAM) project; presents two levels of guidelines for the system--essential and highly desirable; and enumerates assumptions…

The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) the nature of the positions held by professors of general curriculum and the terms of their employment; (2) their educational and experiential backgrounds; (3) their current academic responsibilities; (4) the number of doctoral students graduating from their general curriculum programs in the next…

A study was undertaken to determine if men and women in public relations jobs differed on the extent to which they performed each of four roles. Based upon the conceptual models found in a wide range of literature on consulting, the four roles used in the study were: (1) expert prescriber, in which the practitioner operates as the authority on…

THE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF A LARGE PLANT SHUTDOWN IN TERMS OF THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED AND CHARACTERISTICS SHOWN TO BE IMPORTANT INDICATORS OF THEIR REEMPLOYABILITY WERE DESCRIBED IN A 1962 STUDY. THIS FOLLOWUP STUDY CLARIFIED AND AMPLIFIED THE EARLIER FINDINGS TO SHOW MORE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES. OF THE 3,100 PEOPLE LAID OFF, THE ORIGINAL…