Provides advice to campus activities chairpersons, faculty advisers, and other student organizations on how to recruit volunteers to advance organizational goals. Focuses on determining organizational needs, attracting volunteer interest, job descriptions and applications, diversity, evaluation of volunteers, and continuing motivation. (MDM)

Reported are some of the highlights of a panel discussion held at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in January 1987. Discussed are precalculus courses, challenging better students, calculus workshops, courses with projects, career awareness, coop programs, remedial programs, recruitment, seminar courses, and…

Every year there is a substantial flow of people into teaching roles as entrants or as movers from one school to another. Each such move involves attraction of the person to the job. Data for 1999-2000 reveal several important findings about teacher staffing. In 1999-2000, out of a teaching workforce of about 3.45 million, there were about 535,000…

Designed for program managers and teacher/recruiter/counselors (TRC's), this handbook provides information on Brevard Community College's Adult Basic Education (ABE) Outreach program. First, background information on the ABE/TRC concept is presented, identifying the major functions of the TRC as counseling through door-to-door contact, conducting…

To manage enrollments, today's colleges and universities must incorporate marketing strategies and organizational changes that until now have generally been used only by business and other private sector professionals. (MSE)

Discusses the power of teacher praise and attention on training students with disabilities to recruit teacher attention. Describes types of students who could benefit from recruitment training, along with the skills and behaviors that can be taught. Provides strategies are provided for teaching recruiting skills. (CR)

This publication offers a sampling of strategies, resources, and tips for educators and policymakers engaged in the recruitment of mathematics, science, and special education teachers--specific to urban and rural schools and districts. These strategies and resources, when implemented effectively, can have a positive and lasting impact on the…

Attracting and retaining highly qualified school leaders is becoming increasingly important in our nation. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that motivate or inhibit practicing teachers from seeking administrative positions. Using exploratory factor analysis, survey responses of 329 students enrolled in Master of School…

This paper discusses who will teach American children in the current political environment. Americans consider education a top political priority. The conversation must be moved from campaign rhetoric to real dialogue about education's critical role and the readiness of all schools to help shape the nation. Major trends transforming society…

Presents some of the ideas and actions the sociology department at the University of Lowell (Massachusetts) has adopted in an effort to make sociology attractive to students. Discusses the dissemination of information about the positive aspects of the discipline, the quality of teaching and guidance, and the development of a substantive…

This publication highlights Ohio programs that offer successful ideas for recruiting students into nontraditional programs and promoting interest in vocational education in general. Six programs are described: (1) Parent Enrollment Counseling (Great Oaks Joint Vocational School District, Laurel Oaks Career Development Campus, Cincinnati), a…

A characterization of the nontraditional student including veterans, vocational-rehabilitation students, single parents, and late reentry students is presented. Recruitment and retention of these students into the geological sciences is discussed. (CW)

A model for resident selection used scaled scores reflective of the applicant's characteristics to rank applicants at the Medical College of Milwaukee (Wisconsin). Data from three years indicate that as few as three faculty were needed to interview reliably, permitting a more cost-effective approach to selection. (Author/MSE)

Research on Arizona State University's intensive English program indicates that the majority of students learned about it through family, relatives, or friends in the local community, not through its extensive overseas recruiting techniques or electronic technology. Local recruiting strategies include local English media features and advertising,…

"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…