The implications that word processing will have on management as a technique is discussed. The effect on secretaries, their skills, and how it will affect their jobs necessitates including word processing in planning curriculums for business education. (DS)

Western Nebraska Technical College held a seminar whose main function was to provide reinforcement in several areas of secretarial training for the students. (BP)

For the past two years, Colby Junior College, in New London, New Hampshire, in cooperation with Operation Crossroads Africa of New York City, has successfully operated an eight-week secretarial improvement course for African office employees. (Author)

Discusses a study conducted to determine the implications for the collegiate secretarial curriculum of the need for and use of shorthand by secretaries in a select area. It was concluded that shorthand should continue to be taught but that the content and methodology of shorthand instruction should be reassessed. (CT)

Automatic typewriters and dictating equipment, called word processing'', require some changes in office education courses. (MF)

Suggested instructional strategies for increasing secretarial students classroom involvement. (HD)

Colleges are not currently offering instruction in modern word processing techniques. If the changing needs of the business community are to be filled, flexible courses must be developed. (Author/MK)

The business teacher can serve as a resource person to business community secretaries and local school secretaries. This article presents guidelines for conducting enrichment programs/activities and lists and discusses eight skill areas in which enrichment activities might be useful. (SH)

The author describes the organization of the clerical staff, career paths, and job requirements at various levels in her company and offers suggestions for the educational preparation of word processing clerks, as an entry into office occupations. (SK)

Educators who teach business communications must also assume responsibility for providing secretarial students with real-life communications experiences. (HD)

A University of Akron survey of the Akron area revealed that the general trend is for large companies to use manual typewriters in their business offices. Implications for typewriting instruction are discussed. (JT)

Rapid installation of word processing systems by organizations challenges educators to produce secretarial and managerial personnel with new skills and knowledge, aware of new career paths (administrative secretary, correspondence secretary); with or without automatic equipment, these can best be learned in established courses where basic skills…