Determination and preserverance proved to be the winning ingredients when New Jersey colleges confronted the government for allocation of funds. (Author)

Vocational educators have fought an unfavorable image, union rejection, industrial pressures, biased credentialing standards, apprenticeship and money problems, and apathy throughout their history. Business and industry are calling for high school graduates with salable skills. Federal funding is shifting toward the vocational scene. (Author/JN)

The resurgence of interest in vocational guidance and emergence of various instructional specialists in career development at all levels have pointed to the need for a team of guidance workers and a guidance curriculum. Through this need has emerged a new and broader guidance delivery system. (Author/DS)

Career preparation for blind and visually handicapped students should be included as part of the high school program. Preparation skills include work skills, basic skills, and awareness of aptitudes, interests, and family/peer influences. The preparation phase culminates in the placement of the student in further education, training, and/or…

The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when…

Capabilities of the comprehensive computer-based job placement service system at Joliet Junior College and benefits to students are described. (TA)

According to the authors, adult career education should provide educational services in at least career counseling and planning, career certification, and career preparation and placement. The paper discusses these three categories and outlines a proposed adult career education system involving employers, the community, and the public schools. (MF)

This article shares some of the strategies and activities that the author believes will improve the connections between independent career education and the world of work. These activities concern school business cooperation, student motivation, student involvement, staff involvement, community and government relations, and career planning and…

Describes the basic ideas underlying the Governor Cahill Career Development Vocational Education Pilot Project. (Editor)

To aid those advising English majors in college, this article compiles information on technical writing careers from surveys in professional journals, occupational literature, 1980 census data, and Bureau of Labor Statistics publications. (SRT)

The first of a two-part series, this paper reports on a study conducted at the University of Florida, calling for an integrated and well coordinated system of career education, counseling, and academic advising. (RP)

This article proposes a course in career education as a method of integrating the various elements of career education for marketing students. Discusses student self-assessment, career awareness, skills development, career planning and placement, the written career plan, seminars, professional organizations, and work experience programs. (CT)

This article describes a new career center paradigm called "Career Networking." It begins with an overview of the Network paradigm, comparing it with the past Placement and Career Planning paradigms. It then develops a model structure of a Network paradigm career office that brings together three clients--students, employers, and…

Seventeen presentations made at the third annual conference on career planning and placement in the small college are presented. The thrust of the conference was aimed at cooperation and sharing of ideas of professionals working in one- or two-person offices within the constraints of a limited budget. Among the presentations included are (1)…

In this volume are discussed: (1) an assessment of the national potential for expansion of cooperative education (employer utilization of undergraduate student manpower, student participation in cooperative education, expansion in higher education institutions, and employer use of graduate manpower); (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of…