The principal objectives of the survey were: (1) to obtain data characterizing the professional make-up of the members of the participating societies. The data was to be descriptive of professional categories, activities and other factors of employment in the field of information processing and (2) to make the results of the survey available to…

The North Carolina Teacher Tenure Act of 1972 requires that regulations for handling teacher records be adopted. This pamphlet contains regulations that, if adopted by school boards, will implement the statutory requirements of the tenure act. The proposed regulations contain several sections, each followed by a comment explaining or clarifying…

By using the total resource approach, we have focused attention on the need to integrate human resource planning with other business plans and highlighted the importance of a productivity strategy. (Author)

Available data permit identification of problem areas, but are not sufficient to determine causes of high or low rates of unscheduled absence. (Editor)

The author provides data describing the teacher demand breakdown for 1970. A short evaluation of the data reveals that teachers of trades; elementary physical and health education; elementary music teachers; librarians; mathematics; special education; and natural and physical sciences are in greatest demand. (Author/MS)

Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978),…

This book represents the first independent research study directed toward the educational needs and interests of museum registrars to be undertaken by a university in collaboration with a nationally recognized museum. The study's primary objective was to provide data to be used for the development of materials and methods in the training and…

The article lists and discusses elements in the development and implementation of an employee information system, such as planning and design, types of data required, selecting software, and documentation. (MF)

Six insights gained during the implementation of a computerized staff accounting and recordkeeping system in the Newington (Connecticut) school district are presented. (ER)

Selected data on a limited number of Minnesota Job Corps referrals to a civilian conservation center in 1970-71 were examined to determine whether there were significant differences between long-term enrollees and short-term enrollees. No significant differences were found. Trends did appear, however, indicating factors related to retention in the…

Inclusion and processing of student data necessitates surrender of many individual privacy rights for and upon admission to college. (IR)

The purpose of "Facilities Performance Indicators" is to provide a representative set of statistics about facilities in educational institutions. The second iteration of the web-based Facilities Core Data Survey was posted and available to facilities professionals at more than 3,000 institutions in the Fall of 2005. The website offered a printed…

Results from the annual ACS survey are reported and analyzed. The present unemployment rate; regional unemployment; unemployment in various work background, by age, and by sex; overall salary gains; men's vs. women's salaries; and a breakdown of salaries by years of experience, job, and region are among the data provided. (DT)

By the use of figures, tables, and descriptive text, significant facts and relationships are shown regarding school buildings, rooms, pupils, instructional staff members, and noninstructional employees. Information is presented on the following--(1) the relationship of the number of pupils to school plants, rooms, general-use facilities,…