Interviews and surveys explored business perspectives on investing in higher-education placement services. Reasons for higher education to market its services and to understand organizational buying behavior were identified. (SK)

Examines the relationship between credit card usage, employment, and academic performance among a group of college students with credit cards. Results reveal that the students differed significantly in the level of anxiety felt from carrying debt, perceived need to work, and perceived impact of employment on academic performance. (Contains 57…

Interviews with three students with learning disabilities about their employment problems suggest that transition services need improvement. Recommendations are for coordination among special and vocational instructors, counselors, and other support personnel, attention to the topic in teacher preparation programs, and responsiveness to workplace…

Worksites represent an untapped resource for reaching teens with tobacco control messages, given that 80% of teens have held at least one job by the time they graduate from high school. This paper presents formative research findings from a methods development study aimed at designing and testing a tobacco control intervention targeting working…

The influences of course effort and outside (family, job, social) activities on grades earned in a college course were examined for 230 urban college students. Multiple measurements of hours of work, social and family activities, and course effort were collected over a semester. Path modeling revealed that cumulative GPA and course effort had…

Using data from the Survey of Adults and Youth, the authors examine the effect of economic status on youths' involvement in both school- and nonschool-related extracurricular activities. Specifically, they assess the association between four alternative measures of economic status--recipiency of food stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent…

As Minnesota's state population changes, the undergraduate student population is also changing. This report is designed to present information about the characteristics of undergraduates who attend post-secondary institutions in Minnesota, based on data from a 2004 national survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. The report provides…

This document reports findings from data collected from large nationally representative samples of high school seniors in the classes of 1985-1989 as part of the Monitoring the Future project. Its primary focus is on the possible costs and benefits of part-time work among high school seniors. The focus of the report is on three psychosocial…

This report presents the results of a survey on drug use conducted in Seattle, Washington's 12 high schools in 1980. Tables show the frequency and occasion of drug use, the relation between participation in school activities and drug use, the kinds of drugs used, and drug use related to age, sex, family income, and work status of surveyed…

This study was conducted to ascertain the effects of employment on the academic performance of community college students. The grade point averages of 830 full-time students at Wilkes Community College (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) were analyzed to determine: (1) if working students' GPA's differed significantly from those of the total student…

Student financial aid grants often fall short of amounts suggested by standard needs analysis systems, creating "unmet need," which some students try to offset with employment earnings. This study indicates that employed aid recipients can often offset unmet need, while nonworking recipients are at a financial disadvantage. Includes five tables,…

Surveyed 152 students to determine which employment interview sign-up method students preferred. Choices were First Come-First Served, Rank-Order, Random Draw, and Bid. Results showed students preferred the Rank-Order System, which had major advantages for the college as well. (JAC)

Survey data from 4,587 high school students indicated that employed students were more likely than unemployed students to have higher grade point averages, be from higher socioeconomic families, or have a parent employed in a higher-status occupation. No relationship was found between parent's education and student's employment. (Author/NRB)

Administered the Career Maturity Inventory to 159 college students. Path anlaysis suggested that career attitudes matured with age and directly affected months employed during college and grade point average and, through the mediation of GPA, affected the occupational level of the students' jobs. (Author/JAC)

The degree of involvement of 46 graduate students in sponsored research projects was investigated. The projects were administered by three social science and three natural science departments at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland. (MLF)