Reports results of a survey of Fortune 500 personnel administrators' preferences for the content of resumes submitted by college students entering the job market. Concludes that textbooks, teachers, and applicants should not only include but stress this preferred content. (PD)

Reports on a nationwide survey to gain information about the current status of the student personnel profession. Questions were designed to provide a profile of the institutions surveyed, a profile of the chief student personnel officers, and a profile of student affairs staff. Discusses several areas of concern about the results of the data. (PC)

A survey of 62 academic library appointees new to the profession (1995-96) investigated the perceived importance of 46 resume items. Resume items were ranked according to importance and compared with rankings in Thomas M. Gaughan's (1980) survey of personnel officers in research libraries. Considerable overlap between surveys suggested more…

A study to determine any change in direction of the personnel function in higher education during the 1980s is described. Personnel professionals, it is suggested, will spend less time on employment and employee benefits and more time on human resource planning, training, development, labor relations, and compliance with government regulations.…

An exploratory study of evaluations about existing practices on campuses by affirmative action/equal employment opportunity personnel from junior colleges, four-year colleges and universities is discussed. The research supports a conclusion that there are both paths of resistance and areas of cooperation within higher education. (MLW)

The emerging status of undergraduate business education in the United States was studied through a 1978 survey of deans of American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited undergraduate business programs, personnel executives from the largest U.S. corporations, and directors of AACSB accredited master of business…