The scope of individual employee rights to engage in activities under the National Labor Relations Act and the concomitant restrictions on employer actions, as interpreted in decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, are examined on the premise that college administrators are well-advised to understand them. (JT)

With budgets limiting counseling staffs and an increased need to retain students, a more effective method of providing services is needed. The objective is to bring paraprofessionals to the point where they can recruit, screen, select, evaluate, promote, train, supervise, and administer their own programs. (Author/PC)

The affirmative action program at the City University of New York is described in relation to the policy of the board of higher education and implementation of board policy. Objectives of the plan and implementation are reviewed in light of instructional and noninsturctional staff, and university responsibilities. Census data for total…

Subjective impressions are reported about a recent job classification process at a university and recommendations are offered. Personnel included in the classification study were executive, professional, and administrative staff members in each of the colleges, the library system, and the middle-level administration of the medium-sized school.…

Concordia Teachers College recognizes the need for creating a humane and developmental environment for student living. In an attempt to achieve this objective, a student paraprofessional housing program has been designed and implemented. Initially, this involved the removal of all professionally trained personnel in the student living units.…

This document reports on the success of a peer counseling program funded on a college campus through the EXXON Education Foundation. The program sought to: (1) increase the size of the counseling staff; (2) provide students with necessary survival skills, diagnostic testing, and counseling; (3) minimize unnecessary attrition and early transfer;…

Variations in scoring and feedback provided by professional and nonprofessional debate judges were studied using 197 ballots from the six preliminary rounds of the Big Sky Intercollegiate Forensic Tournament in 1971. Results indicated no significant difference in the sides (affirmative or negative) awarded the decision by the two groups of judges.…

Analyzes employment statistics of Association of Research Libraries members, relates data to patterns of library collection growth and decline during those years, and speculates on future staffing. Variables used to measure personnel are the number of professionals, nonprofessionals, full time staff, and ratio of professionals to full time staff.…

Follows up an earlier article the purpose of which was to describe a tentative affirmative model in higher education under which significant achievements had been made; this sequal describes and analyzes the results of the Affirmative Action Program through the University's first year of operation. (Author/JM)

A study of attitudes and opinions of staff personnel of Indiana University, as a sample population, regarding the possibility of their participation in the governance of a university. (Author)

Describes results of a survey of catalogers in academic libraries that investigated if and how their job functions have changed over the past 10 years. The 271 respondents discussed a change from print to electronic formats, involvement of nonprofessionals, outsourcing, and more cataloging of specialized items including Internet resources.…

This introductory chapter to this theme issue on job satisfaction among faculty and staff first reviews the faculty satisfaction literature and then discusses a conceptual model of faculty job satisfaction based on six life event "triggers" and three mediators of job satisfaction. Reviews how each trigger affects college professors and offers data…

Guidelines are given for a college or university in urging its employees to vote for "no union" when a union has demanded recognition as the exclusive bargaining representative of an employee unit. Campaign techniques in a unit of faculty and non-faculty members are discussed separately. (JT)

A questionnaire was mailed to a 20 percent stratified random sample of four-year institutions of higher learning in the 48 contiguous states. Of the respondents, 76 reported using students as paraprofessionals. A majority were favorable to using student paraprofessionals in student personnel programs. (Author)

This document evaluates six three-week inservice training sessions provided for Kentucky public assistance workers. The training was conducted with 15 trainees participating in each session. Trainees were state employees who were employed to determine eligibility for food stamps, medical assistance, SSA unemployment insurance, etc. Their formal…