The Maryland Community Colleges Technology Council conducted a survey of all 18 community colleges in Maryland during the spring of 1998 to determine the number and salaries of full-time staff supporting campus information technologies. Collectively, the colleges had 377 full-time positions authorized, with 305 positions filled. The organization…

A study of the training opportunities of high school graduates (about 825,000 in 1988) who work immediately after leaving school identified which members of that group get trained, by whom, and with what earnings consequences, based on the experiences of a sample of graduates from their graduation in 1972 until 1986. The following are among the…

This curriculum guide is the first of a four-volume set that is intended to improve career and vocational guidance services to Spanish-speaking students in grades 9 through 12. The first section, an introduction to the teacher, includes a discussion of goals and objectives, a note on the organization of the materials, suggestions for using them, a…

The status of efforts to achieve equality for women faculty members in higher education is considered. The method used by Jessie Bernard in "Academic Women" is replicated: presenting a wide variety of studies pertaining directly or indirectly to faculty women and then suggesting larger trends indicated by the findings. In addition, interviews were…

A study assessed the potential development of service sectors in different cities throughout the country and compared the results of growth in these and other sectors with respect to their effects on (1) total employment; (2) the geographic dispersion of metropolitan employment; (3) central city fiscal capacity; (4) metropolitan cyclical…

This study presents data from the 1979 Income Survey Development Program (ISDP) on lifetime work interruptions and examines the relationship between work interruptions and earnings. Descriptive data showing the extent to which men and women have experienced work interruptions are presented, followed by an analysis of the impact of work…

Five years after their graduation from high school in Colorado, a sample of 1,143 students who had been enrolled in a vocational education program were sent follow-up questionnaires. Of the 268 former students providing usable responses, 63 percent were working full-time, 12 percent were full-time students, and approximately 16 percent were going…

A study examined the patterns of differential status and reward existing among high school students to determine whether the sex-related patterns of salary and employment status discrimination that exist in society as a whole are mirrored in the occupational experiences of in-school adolescent workers. To gather data for the study, the researcher…

This first report covering faculty characteristics in the annual series published by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education is based on data gathered through the Arkansas Higher Educational Information System. Faculty salary data are derived from federal survey information. Data are presented on tables and some graphs with some narration.…

This report examines the status of women and the laws that have been enacted to protect women from discrimination in employment. Written in lay language, it examines employment and occupational statistics for women in the United States and in Kentucky. Following an introduction in Chapter 1, the report presents four chapters surveying the problem,…

Information is presented on women as students, women graduates in the job market, women as faculty members and administrators, and the status of affirmative action. Women's enrollment in undergraduate education, traditional and nontraditional majors, enrollment in graduate and professional schools, degrees earned, dropout information, and the…

Administrative salaries from a representative group of public doctorate-granting institutions are reported, including data from 128 universities in 49 states and 24 university systems in 20 states. The report is comprised of rank-order distribution tables for l2-month salaries in three categories: (1) by administrative title (president/chancellor,…

This guide outlines how school districts can identify sex discrimination against women teachers and women administrators in their employment practices. It offers step-by-step instructions for collecting and analyzing data relevant to hiring patterns, promotional processes, salary, and fringe benefits. The first section of each chapter provides…

Results of the annual state survey of faculty salaries in California colleges and universities are presented and analyzed in two parts: the University of California and the California State University and Colleges, and the California Community Colleges. For the four-year institutions, a history of the salary reports is given and certain funding…

Data on the salaries of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities for the years 1972-1975 are presented in this two-part report. Part I includes nine tables, three for each academic year. Table 1 of each group provides summary information of teachers by rank and sex. Table 2 gives a detailed breakdown of the number of teachers and median…