This document discusses how many states are facing a shortage in teachers. Specifically, the document focuses on how the state department and colleges of education in Missouri have been actively working to maintain high levels of educational standards as well as recruiting more teachers. The document reports that some educational reform took place…

This paper draws on the literatures of educational administration, management, and marketing to address, empirically, two issues related to community college faculty recruitment: (a) factors influencing faculty application decisions, and (b) the utility of an existing model for recruiting community college faculty. It examines factors influencing…

This paper reports the results of an 11 item questionnaire designed to ascertain the personal characteristics and backgrounds of newly-hired faculty in the 19 state North Central region. Useable responses were obtained from 406 full-time community college faculty who were hired for the 1973-74 school year. Ninety-six percent were white, 57 percent…

This handbook describes a strategy to reduce sex barriers in vocational education and aid in recruiting students into nontraditional areas by recruiting women from nontraditional occupations to teach part time in occupational training programs. The teacher recruiting and training process described was derived from experience with a pilot project…

Project SELECT (Search for Excellent Leaders To Enter Careers in Teaching) is a consortium of three New York educational institutions--Westchester Community College, a two-year public institution; Pace University, a multi-campus, four-year private institution; and the White Plains Public Schools, a K-12 school system. These entities collaborated…