Discusses factors affecting the decline of freshmen college students in undergraduate business programs and the increased enrollment of employed adults taking part-time business classes to advance their careers. Addresses how these trends will affect business schools and the consequences of these trends to the business program enrollment pool.…

This special issue reviews 71 books on the following topics: career management; career opportunities for people with disabilities; federal government career information; college career development/counseling; job search strategies, tools, methods; coaching; retirement issues; strategies for managers; women and careers; general career books; and…

A study examined career and professional development activities of 250 postsecondary and adult instructors who did not have education degrees and who had been teaching five years. Information on age, prior education, vocational field membership, occupational mobility, teaching experience, attrition, and development of teaching competence and…

To prepare students for a complex new world, Oregon legislators in 1991 overwhelmingly approved Oregon's Educational Act for the 21st Century. In 1995, they revised and reaffirmed this act's goals, strengthening efforts to make public education more academically rigorous and work-related (via Certificates of Mastery). Working this "seamless…

In half the schools in Canada and in over 25,000 classrooms across the United States students from grade 3 to grade 12 are being introduced to careers through an innovative new game-based process called The Real Game Series. Originated in Canada, these programs have been developed and tested through a not-for-profit international partnership…

Becoming a culturally skilled career counselor is an important step in working effectively with ethnic minorities. Much of the professional literature has indicated that a traditional counseling model, one that has been derived from a traditional white middle class model, may not be effective in working with culturally diverse clients. The model…

This self-study manual was designed to help people who work in rehabilitation, education, and other helping professions to use the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) to assist persons with disabilities in preparing for and locating appropriate employment. The manual has four main sections: (1) a preface and introduction that explain how it…

This report presents results of a visit of vocational education practitioners from the United Kingdom to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to study the spread of career development education. An introduction describes vocational education and training in the FRG and the activities of the three groups of specialists in the visiting party who…

This conference handout includes five brief papers presented by a panel to the Employment and Training Division of the American Vocational Association. They are "Assessment Center (Cerritos College)" (Patricia Cook); "Assessment Is the Future. Can You Afford Not to Be a Part of It?" (Bob Cumming); "A Comprehensive Academic and Career Assessment…

Intended to help college and high school students use vacation breaks for taking action on vocational decisions, this activity guide describes the process of career decisionmaking and presents an outline to be followed when actually engaging in the process. The outline includes five segments, each made up of a checklist of suggested activities…

This report, which presents the results of a study of the effect on young people's lives by early family formation and especially entry into parenthood, is based on the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, a large national survey that has tracked over 22,000 young people who are now in their mid-twenties. Following a…

Today's harsh economy gives a spirit of urgency to the call for an effective harmonizing of occupational development with academic learning. Whether we as teachers or administrators are in agreement or not, the evidence is very clear that our students expect their college years to yield occupational as well as academic outcomes. It is time that we…

Discussed is the importance of effective writing in engineering management as well as the effectiveness of lecture, seminar, and tutorial types of improvement programs. (CS)

Although employment forecasts indicate the largest job growth to be in marketing and distributive occupations, enrollment in these programs is only six percent of the total vocational enrollment. The authors propose a curriculum starting with middle school through adult education to expand distributive education programs to meet the job needs. (MF)