The report summarizes the results of follow-up studies of 494 students who completed a career program at Kansas' Johnson County Community College (JCCC) during the 1997-1998 academic year, and of the employers of completers who were working in a job related to their course of study. Results of these studies provide valuable insights into the…

The authors discuss trends affecting community sponsored agencies counseling persons with work-related problems. They cite qualifications and functions of counselors in these agencies. Opportunities for expansion in this area will be limited, they say, in the early 1970's and most openings will be due to replacements. For the long run they predict…

In a letter written to a guidance counselor, a recent graduate details her problems and discoveries in job-seeking in advertising in New York City. (NJ)

Fluidics is a new and emerging technology in which a fluid medium is used to transmit power and to process information. The two-year Associate Degree program at Brevard Community College is the result of student, faculty, and industry effort. It successfully prepares students for jobs as mechanical engineering technicians. (Author/KP)

Described a program for prison inmates, who were able to learn in cooperation with community colleges, which helped prisoner rehabilitation further with their special midnight program. (RK)

Akron public schools help students cross the gap from classroom to jobs. (Editor)

Describes the basic ideas underlying the Governor Cahill Career Development Vocational Education Pilot Project. (Editor)

Calls for an end to all divisiveness between vocational and nonvocational programs so that business and office education can get on with attacking more serious problems. (Editor)

A recent study of former male graduates of selected Idaho high schools during the period 1962-1970 was an attempt to identify what happens to Idaho agricultural education graduates. (Author)

Counselors tend to see their role in a therapeutic vein but feel they are increasingly constrained to focus time and attention on meeting numeric quotas. The pressure to meet the closed-placed'' quota often conflicts with the needs of good rehabilitation practices. (Editor)

From personal experience, author stresses great need to treat Indians and their problems with individualized responses, rather than with middle class, ivory tower" approaches. (CJ)