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Elsner, Gary; And Others – 1991
The Office of Personnel Management should designate a new professional series for hiring individuals in outdoor recreational management. A new professional series would help set a standard for professionals with training in both resource management and the social sciences. Recommended educational requirements for the series include: (1) natural…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Degree Requirements, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills
Jernigan, Rick – 1991
This paper describes general employment requirements for employment candidates in the skiing industry, as seen by Crested Butte Mountain Resort personnel. General educational requirements are primarily business skills, including: communications, computers, math, finance, accounting, economics, personnel administration, and psychology. Other…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Graduates, Degree Requirements, Employment Qualifications
Cockrell, David – 1991
Although outdoor leadership does not appear to be coalescing into a unified profession, there are potential solutions to this fragmentation. Six robust approaches to the professional provision of outdoor leadership are: (1) outfitting and guiding; (2) organized camping; (3) adventure education, such as Outward Bound; (4) the outdoor school; (5)…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Degree Requirements, Higher Education
Wakefield, Gay; And Others – 1985
To examine aspects of the political/economic/social/cultural environments (PESCE) affecting international public relations and their significance to the future of public relations practitioners, this paper reviews the 1980s literature regarding the current and projected trends in international public relations practice and their implications for…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Degree Requirements, Economic Climate, Education Work Relationship
Sims, Edna N. – 1977
This paper discusses the crisis in the teaching of foreign languages brought on by the willingness of higher education institutions in the United States to discourage the study of foreign language as a general educational requirement. A questionnaire recently administered to the graduating class of a major university found that the courses…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Core Curriculum, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
Burgar, Paul S. – 1979
A study was commissioned by a large petrochemical concern in order to validate professional degrees as a job entry requirement. The investigations considered two issues: (1) "Are activities performed by professionals (chemists and engineers) measurably different from the activities of subordinate technical personnel?" and "What…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Critical Incidents Method, Curriculum