Between 2000 and 2003, the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project identified and implemented a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among low-income individuals, mostly current or former welfare recipients. The project's goal was to determine which strategies could…

Review of employment laws affecting libraries includes definitions of qualified personnel, laws pertaining to medical and honesty testing, affirmative action, and sexual harassment. Laws covering crime within libraries are also discussed, as well as problems with existing legislation. (CLB)

Using a random sample of 12,000 teachers in over 500 New York State school districts, this paper considers the effect of specific union-negotiated, employment-related job provisions on the job separations of individual teachers. Reductions in force and class-size limitations provisions reduce the probability of teacher resignations or dismissals.…

Great Britain's teachers with disabilities face discrimination in obtaining and retaining employment. To achieve disability equality and integration, a campaign is needed to change regulations for medical fitness to teach, develop an equality perspective across the whole curriculum, and force the government to allocate money to include disabled…

Based on research conducted at Mississippi State University, Meridian (Mississippi) Public Schools, and Vicksburgh Public Schools, the intent of this study was to determine the general state of due process procedures in the practices of school officials throughout the southern region. All cases involving teacher dismissal in the Fifth Circuit…

This document, a companion report to a detailed investigation into school districts' teacher selection processes, presents detailed case studies conducted in six different school districts: (1) Mesa Unified School District (Arizona); (2) Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland); (3) East Williston Union Free School District (New York); (4)…

A random sample of 559 secondary small school principals in Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas revealed that 73 percent of the principals were actively seeking new positions or were leaving school administration. The findings have implications for selection procedures, salary/fringe benefit packages, principal autonomy, evaluation…

This paper notes developments in supported employment practices and the manner in which support organizations, employees with disabilities, and companies interact. The paper then reconceptualizes supported employment and the role of employers. The reconceptualized approach involves such techniques as extending support to employer personnel and…

When reducing staff, college administrators should (1) base decisions on the department's role in advancing the institutional mission; (2) provide practical, humane support to those whose posts are eliminated; (3) assure that all staff hear the news quickly and appropriately; and (4) maintain prompt, candid, two-way communication with all…

The Commission on College Retirement was formed to review the role and functioning of college and university retirement programs and make recommendations for program improvements. This volume brings together five separate reports issued by the commission. "Retirement Ages for College and University Personnel" addresses the issues of…

In 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law to ensure the full participation and equal opportunity of the disabled in the United States. Among its many requirements is the obligation on employers, including school districts, to provide those applicants and employees with disabilities who possess the requisite skill, education,…

This paper argues that the high output demands of the information age necessitate that higher education salary administration be shifted from political systems, where subjective evaluation makes patronage a criterion of success, to management systems which employ objective analysis to allocate remuneration according to productivity. The paper…

This monograph contains papers from the Switzer Seminar on issues regarding the problems of aging, disabilities, and rehabilitation. It is intended for use by rehabilitation counselors, psychologists, gerontologists, researchers, administrators, consumers, legislators, and others interested in providing better services to Americans growing older.…

Recommendations for improving the search, selection, and negotiation for a college president (the term president is used to represent an institution's chief executive officer) are offered, and the social responsibilities of the president are briefly addressed. Aspects of the search that may present problems include: determining institutional…

Results of a feasibility study of implementing flextime for nonacademic staff at Midlands Technical College are presented, along with implementation outcomes. Surveys were administered to staff and department heads, as well as to state agencies that had administered flextime. Findings include: (1) 95.6 percent of nonacademic staff favored a…