Some of the most important decisions that your school council will make or consider are issues about personnel. This document provides technical assistance and references to law, regulation and legal opinions that help clarify personnel issues for school councils in Kentucky School-Based Decision-Making Schools.

Drivers' lack of concentration, distraction, and misjudgment are the major causes of all school bus accidents. Examples are provided of exemplary bus driver training and safety programs. (MLF)

Reviews the efforts made over the last 30 years to stimulate improvements in the education of librarians in Greece, emphasizing the causes for the shortcomings in the present situation as they relate to the Greek educational system and the current pattern of staffing libraries. A 19-item reference list is included. (Author/JL)

Explains what security officers do, how to hire and utilize them, and how they can help schools. (JM)

Demand for planned giving officers vastly exceeds the small supply of trained competent professionals. Personnel Decisions, Inc. overhauled a program of personnel selection and training sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation; that program is described. Categories of job performance and profiles of behavioral characteristics for successful…

An automated candidate-job matching system called "Jobmatch" has been implemented at Citibank, in New York City, involving job analysis, performance appraisal techniques, clerical employment, and internal mobility. A job task scale is used by supervisor and employee to determine job and candidate matching through a series of computer…

Discusses recent research on the attitudes of employees who are affected by affirmative action to determine whether societal-level beliefs about discrimination lead to policy endorsement among individuals whose career outcomes are at stake. Suggests there is more endorsement than "backlash" against affirmative action, and discusses the…

Outlines employers' perceptions of career service offices (employers are typically unaware of the wide array of services available). Examines the knowledge gaps that have contributed to this misperception and presents some of the many services, such as pre-recruiting functions and faculty/department liaisons, provided by career services offices.…

Examines how book publishers are staffing for multimedia developments. Discussion includes competition from software developers, costs, partnerships, professional organizations as the most innovative electronic publishers, cultural problems, human resource polices, hiring, conflict between print and technology staff, marketing, outside…

Provides comments and ways to address some issues that affect new faculty in undergraduate psychology departments who have doctorates in license-eligible applied specialties. Suggests that issues of licensure requirements, and how they may be met, must be included in the hiring negotiations of new faculty members. (CMK)

This article details the challenges that UC Merced faced in building up the critical areas of student and residence life. The new institution held great promise for achieving the ideal of a student-centered university, but certain bedrock problems proved difficult to overcome. One was that at the beginning, both administration and faculty saw…

The University College of Cape Breton, an undergraduate institution in Nova Scotia, Canada, initiated a video resume pilot project to serve cooperative education students. The generic video resume lasts approximately 15 minutes and is patterned after the behavioral interview model, shifting the focus of the interview to examples of past behaviors.…

The digest is based on a full length report (with the same title) on African-American and Hispanic faculty at predominantly white, four-year institutions of higher education. The full report provides a definitive review of the literature and institutional practice on the topic. Three topics are discussed: (1) how necessary affirmative action…

This publication presents adaptations of four papers given at a workshop on Staffing and Manpower Development, sponsored by the Mental Health Manpower Development project of the Southern Regional Education Board. The introduction delineates four dimensions to be considered in describing staffing patterns (organization, utilization, type, and…

This monograph is designed to assist administrative school personnel in selecting, training, and retaining the best qualified instructional aides available. It covers five areas: (1) employment procedures--outlining important points under recruitment, applications, examinations, interviews, and selection; (2) payroll procedures--outlining how to…