Uses Project Talent data to replicate and extend earlier research on the effects of college organization on student educational and career plans. Concludes that American colleges produce graduates who are remarkably homogeneous in their plans and aspirations once differential recruitment is taken into account. (PR)

Data collected by personal interviews with a stratified random sample of household heads residing in a 125-county area in the Ozarks found that family income was positively and significantly related to selected educational and occupational status orientations of youth. Except for geographically mobile youth, being born into an upper-rather than a…

Tests the hypothesis that migrants from their communities of origin have higher status aspirations or greater prospects for socioeconomic success. Finds only modest evidence to support this hypothesis among rural youth, and reports that only among White males are occupational and residential aspirations linked. (Author/ST)

Reviews the literature on the career development of young Black females, and concludes that their unique dilemmas are often ignored, forgotten, or subsumed under the headings of minorities or females in general. (Author/ST)