Elizabeth Timberman to Mr. James H. Meredith (4 October 1962)

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Changing the image of vocational education

The purpose of this study was to (1) determine existing opinions of vocational education and (2) identify steps to be taken by vocational schools to improve image problems and to attract students. A written survey was sent to the 21 New Jersey public vocational school superintendents. Twenty responses were received. The results of the study indicate that the term vocational indeed carries a stigma. The leading association for vocational education recently underwent a name change. Many vocational schools are following suit, changing their names to eliminate the word vocational. The study also addressed the new courses being taught at vocational schools. While traditional classes in auto mechanics and welding still exist, vocational schools are offering high tech classes to meet the needs of the job market. The survey results point to public relations as being the key to solving the image problem of the vocational schools. Public relations efforts can assist with informing the community about the changes taking place in the vocational schools

For the Progress of “Faustus and Helen”: Crane, Whitman, and the Metropolitan Progress Poem

This essay is meant to invigorate a critical discussion of the progress poem—a genre that, while prevalent in American literature, has been virtually ignored by critics and scholars. In lieu of tackling the genre in its entirety, a project too large for just one article, the author focuses the argument through the well-known alignment between Walt Whitman and Hart Crane on the subject of the modern city. It is through the progress poem genre that Crane and Whitman’s peculiar place in metropolitan poetics can best be understood, and it is through their poetry that scholars can begin to approach the broader issue of the progress poem’s place in American literature. Cet article vise à soulever un débat critique au sujet de la poésie du progrès, un genre courant dans la littérature étatsunienne, mais pratiquement ignoré par les critiques et les commentateurs. Plutôt que d’aborder le genre dans son entièreté – un projet qui déborde du cadre d’un article –, l’auteur resserre l’argumentation autour du parallèle bien connu entre Walt Whitman et Hart Crane concernant le traitement de la ville moderne. C’est la poésie du progrès en tant que genre qui permet le mieux de comprendre la place particulière qu’occupent ces deux auteurs dans la poésie métropolitaine, et c’est par leurs poèmes que les chercheurs peuvent aborder la question plus vaste de la place du poème sur le progrès dans la littérature étatsunienne

Executive capacity to control legislatures and presidential choice of cabinet ministers in East Asian democracies

How do presidents in new democracies choose cabinet ministers to accomplish their policy goals? Contrary to existing studies explaining the partisan composition of the cabinet with institutional characteristics, such as formal authority, we argue that the broader political context surrounding the president's ability to control the legislature can affect cabinet partisanship. By analyzing original data on cabinet formation in all presidential systems in East Asia since democratization, we find that when presidents are more likely to be dominant in executive-legislative relations, they have less concern about legislative support and more leeway to focus on policy performance by appointing nonpartisan cabinet members. This analysis suggests that understanding cabinet partisanship requires a view of cabinet appointments as a trade-off between securing legislative support and managing policy performance, and the scope of this compromise depends on the strength of the president vis-à-vis the legislature

The Mentoring of Nonprofessional, Nonmanagerial Women Who Are Pursuing Upward Career Mobility

294 p.Thesis (Educat.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.Developing a mentoring relationship with a person of influence has been reported to be an effective strategy for individuals desiring upward career mobility. Because women have unique problems based in their socialization it has been asserted that mentors will be keys to their upward mobility. However, women in business find few women mentors and because it is rare for women to be tapped for mentoring by male corporate officers an insidious cycle results: women do not advance rapidly because they lack the insights mentors can give them--and, because the problem exists there are few women who can become mentors for other women.Since teaching and counseling, two functions of mentoring, are within the realm of education, the purpose of the study was to identify mentoring functions that are educational so programmatic interventions which will better prepare female students for climbing corporate career ladders can be designed and tested. Recommendations for future research and development in this area are made.Since the investigation was an analytical study of a specific phenomenon, field research techniques were employed. It was limited to a unique population, 21 women whose belated desires for upward mobility led them to pursue baccalaureate degrees as adult students in a nontraditional degree program. Three questionnaires were used to gather data on family background, personal attributes, and work attitudes. Subjects participated in one or more one to two hour interviews. Eleven subjects had at least one career mentor. The other ten subjects had not had career mentors.Findings include brief descriptions of the women: their early life and work experiences, their perceptions of self, factors motivating their desires for upward mobility, and their views on the reality of the work setting for them as well as descriptions of the mentors and mentoring relationships they experienced. Questionnaire data on achievement motivation, parental attributes, work/family orientation, locus of control and self-esteem are reported and comparisons are made between mentored and nonmentored subjects. The roles mentoring (or lack of mentoring) played in the career development of the subjects are discussed.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD