According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 50 percent of undergraduates work in part-time jobs while enrolled as full-time students. Student employment, says the author, has the potential to be a significant developmental experience, providing an extracurricular setting in which to promote learning after class ends, enabling…

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…

During the past year, EDUCAUSE has published two articles addressing the use of student employment--the author of one supported student employment, whereas the other expressed concerns over dependence on a student workforce. While both have valid points, the author believes there are additional issues to be brought forth. In this article, the…

Concerned about increasing numbers of working college-prep students, an Iowa City high school teacher surveyed students about their jobs. The new "adolescent workplace" requires no school skills and provides little experience leading to adult employment. Afterschool work often works against students, the school, and our society. Includes…

Adolescents are working more and longer, and more advantaged parents want their children to work. However, jobs available to youth are age segregated and declining in quality. Although student employment can develop self-discipline, responsibility, motivation, and other lifelong skills, its consequences include competing school, work, and family…

Studies and identifies characteristics and attitudes most desired by employers. Provides a rationale for educators to take an aggressive role in adding employability skills instruction to their school's curriculum. Includes four brief sample employability skills activities. (HB)

Reports that significantly greater numbers of high school students have jobs now than did in the past, limiting the time student publication staff members can give to their publications. Offers suggestions to advisers with busy staff Members. (GT)

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)

Union organizing activities, protection of state and federal labor laws, and the division of students into a separate collective bargaining unit are discussed; and the use of separate units is discouraged. Journal availabilty: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506.) (MSE)

Compared to Germany, Japan, and Denmark, U.S. fails its students by neglecting basic health and welfare needs, permitting inequitable school funding system, and perpetuating cultural ethos that undermines serious academic achievement. Teachers are not to blame. Factors influencing underachievement are low parent expectations and standards, local…

This document provides a day-by-day description of the process of training and placing an employee with mental retardation in a job as a janitor in a grocery store. The analysis shows that successful job placement of a student with limited capability subject requires thorough planning and research into all factors that have an impact on successful…

United States economic courses of action--and inaction--are increasingly being based on the employment and unemployment figures put out monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Yet, the basic statistical concepts that are still used were fashioned during the Great Depression and do not take into account the very different conditions we…

Although part-time employment often interferes with high school students' academic achievement, careful planning to integrate employment with school involvement can prove to be beneficial to the students' personal development. (LH)

Argues that performance measures for student employees in academic libraries should set expectations for their performance and become management tools to motivate, evaluate, and reward them. Management literature on full-time employees is modified to fit students' needs, i.e., that they are part-time and not necessarily motivated by the work…

Paid phonathon solicitors may raise more money in the short term, but using paid callers, it is suggested, will undermine college volunteer programs. Phonathons are seen as a fund raising technique. Committed involvement is seen as fundamental to fund raising success. (MLW)