Professional fundraising has given rise to a new information specialist profession. This career path, which has been known as prospect research or advancement research, should be more accurately characterized as information resources management for advancement. With primary emphasis on value-added information processes that involve analysis and…

This study examined whether or not selected recently endorsed and currently practicing school library media specialists are using job competencies taught to them in three schools of higher education training programs. Based on a review of literature, the research hypothesis is that there is a disparity between job competencies as taught and the…

Recent studies of the state of legal education and the practice of law are criticized, and legal education is found to be healthy. Practical and professional responsibility training is recommended for post-law school training rather than in the classical curriculum. (MSE)

A university-affiliated family medicine residency program, with its emphasis on psychosocial factors of health, was used to observe the behavior of health care providers. Information obtained through chart reviews was used to develop a family practice residency curriculum in occupational medicine. (MLW)

Notes from the diary of a private, church-related college's new president reveal some of the responsibilities, variety of roles, frustrations, and triumphs of the first year on the job. Among the issues are financial problems and fund-raising, faculty concerns, planning, public and intra-institutional relations, alumni concerns, and rumors. (MSE)

Defines career education and examines current approaches which have been labeled career education. These approaches are somewhat atheoretical and inconsistent with accepted definitions of career education. Discusses some general notions derived from career development theory and implications of these notions for practicing counselors. (Author/RC)

Reports the findings of a survey of Oregon principals who had recently hired vocational agriculture teachers. Principals rated the importance of 23 criteria dealing with personal and professional preparation for teaching. Attitudes, recommendations, experience, and appearance were among the highest ranked criteria used for selecting a teacher.…

The major career guidance service offered by Belgium schools is orientation to general career fields. This aspect is augmented on a more specialized basis by community guidance agencies which utilize psychological, medical, educational and social data about the client in developmental career counseling. (KP)

After a brief history of vocational guidance in Luxembourg, the author explains the functions of vocational guidance offices which, directed by the National Labour Office, specialize in placement of apprentices after analysis of their educational, medical, and psychological characteristics. Little emphasis is currently placed on vocational…

Examines the research-teaching relationship in faculty work in Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Israel, Japan, and South Korea, drawing on an international survey of college and university faculty. Results indicate research and teaching are not mutually exclusive activities, but the two activities have differing effects…

At DePaul University (Illinois), a set of advising competencies was derived through collective examination of practices among faculty/staff who provide advising services to adult learners. Using a storytelling methodology, skills, knowledge, attitudes, and values reflective of good advising were extracted and described. The methodology served as…

An interim principal can buy a school district time to land a permanent successor. Also lists where to find an interim principal; the interim's steadying influence; Bob Wallace's wild ride as an interim principal in post-retirement; and Roger Prosise's rationale for turning to an interim appointment. (MLF)

Examines administration, motivation, and compensation among educational leaders. Discusses the high-stakes, high-stress jobs of superintendents, assistant superintendents, subject-area supervisors, principals, and assistant principals. Also looks at the role of school board members and the importance of teamwork in education. (Contains one table…

Describes a study that examined published job advertisements to investigate employment opportunities for academic librarians with regard to rank, academic expectations, benefits, tenure, and issues related to salary and equal employment. The discussion covers variations in these factors correlated with institutional characteristics and regions.…

A teacher's work is compared to Claude Levi-Strauss's concept of "bricolage." A "bricoleur" is a professional do-it-yourself person, falling somewhere between an odd-job person and a craftsperson. The concept helps to explain pedagogical inadequacy by linking inherent limiting features of teachers' work and some causal…