Suggestions for finding camp staff focus on actively recruiting college students: arranging college credit for camp work, attending job fairs, using conventional advertising as well as the Internet and e-mail, asking other groups to help, recruiting while staff is at camp, and staff reunions. Includes strategies for finding staff with specialized…

Examined college students' summer employment aspirations, expectations, and information preferences among 115 college students. Found aspirations, expectations, and information preferences to be correlated with students' perception of control over life events. These findings have implications for counseling professionals. (Author/NB)

A college placement office's systematic approach to conducting research on potential employers gathers information on industry, competition, company, position, and recruiter. The information can help job seekers compare their qualifications with company needs and develop effective cover letters and resumes. (SK)

Demonstrates how the joint efforts of industry (a nuclear-powered electric company) and a university (Northern Illinois University) can provide advanced education to place-bound student employees. Explores values and ethics related to the project, including faculty qualifications, teacher-student relationships, testing and evaluation standards,…

Mailed questionnaires to 25% random sample of directors of counseling centers at four-year institutions of higher learning in the United States. Findings from 96 responding institutions were compared to findings from similar study conducted in 1974. Results revealed a growing trend toward use of undergraduate paraprofessionals in student…

A survey of 111 cooperative education students in New Zealand found only 45% satisfied with their supervisors; 90% felt the placement helped with career choice; 70% wanted more help with report writing. Better methods of supervision and student assessment were devised. (SK)

Evaluation of teaching and learning in Scottish nursing schools showed how different curricular arrangements support or constrain educational experience, especially in relation to preparation for clinical placement, role of tutors and mentors in placements, and assessment of practice-based learning. (SK)

Describes the Opportunity Knocks student employment preparation program at Duquesne University (Pennsylvania) in which students receive one week of training prior to fall semester and then work to meet escalating demands for information technology support on campus. Notes special features of the program, program costs, and program impact. A…

Investigated the relationship between high school students' employment and school performance. Identified conceptual problems with prior research, using new data collection in a study that let researchers weigh the merits of the zero-sum model and the social psychological primary orientation model. Results found that these data were more…

A distance learning module on auditing was implemented for accounting students on a 1-year full-time work placement. Review of stakeholder focus groups showed that they considered the module innovative; there were concerns about standards and equity. Initial groundwork with stakeholders, especially professional organizations and external…

Students have provided cheap successful labour for routine retrospective cataloguing projects. The current article examines a library project which went further, using university students with minimum training to catalogue its undergraduate stock from the book in hand to AACR2, level 2, allegedly to professional standard. The article discusses the…

Throngs of people cover the concrete walkways of Dorney Park, an amusement park about an hour north of Philadelphia. Employees under the age of 18 make up about 40 percent of the park's summer workforce, and, park officials say, are even more crucial to its operations later in the season, when college-student employees go back to school and…

A number of national studies point to a trend in which highly selective and elite private and public universities are becoming less accessible to lower-income students. At the same time there have been surprisingly few studies of the actual characteristics and academic experiences of low-income students or comparisons of their undergraduate…

Depression is a problem in the student population and may impact students of any age, gender and ethnicity. Previous studies have indicated student demographic characteristics are associated with depression; however, these studies have not utilised scales specifically designed to measure depression in the student population. The aim of the present…

This brief paper summarizes statistics on the rate at which 16-24 year old full-time college students were employed during October from 1970 to 1993, categorized by race/ethnicity (White, Black, and Hispanic) and hours worked per week. The data indicated that 46 percent of all full-time students were employed in 1993, and about one-fourth worked…