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Employment Picture Brighter
Things are looking up in the employ
ment picture according to an employ
ment out look survey conducted by
Manpower Inc.
The survey,, which came out on
December 20, 1982, polled 11,200
employees in 347 U.S. cities. The results of
the surveyed employers indicated a slight
improvement for the first quarter (Jan.,
Feb., Mar.) of 1983 as compared to the
survey a year ago. This, according to
Manpower, is due to the employees
predicted halt in the quarter-to-quarter
drop in hiring plan.
Still, fewer firms expect to hire ad
ditional workers in the next three months.
According to the study, increase in
staffing the firms is expected to be
by Keith LaRue
College Influences
Drinking
goal of last year. Furthermore, 68 percent
plan no change in employment levels
compared to 63 percent a year ago.
The number of employers planning to
expand their work forces is at it lowest in
six years, but the number planning no
change is the highest in the same period.
According to the report, the downward
declined that started a year ago has
stopped.
U.S. Physicians Fear Oversupply Of
Doctors In Coming Decade
nominal because of the uncertainty of the
length of the recession. Only 14 percent
of the employees surveyed are planning
to increase staff size for the first quarter as
opposed to 15 percent one year ago.
However, the number of firms expec
ting to cut back has declined markedly.
Fifteen percent expect staff reductions
down considerably from the 18 percent
The college environment
influences students to drink
more than any other factor,
according to a study con
ducted by Elsie Shore, assis
tant professor of psychology
at Wichita State University.
She began her 1980 study by
asking students to keep a
diary of where, with whom,
and why they drank to deter
mine the most common
situations where they drink.
Where a student lived cor
related highly with resistance
of alcohol, she said. Members
of fraternities rated next to
last. Men and women in
dormitories presented a uni
que relation; both resisted at
about the same level. Shore
said she does not know if male
resistance increased or
female resistance decreased
in the overall number.
Another interesting statistic
surfaced when rating students
by the number of credit hours
they had accumulated, she
said. Freshmen's reluctance
to drink was very low,
regardless of age, indicating
to Shore that new students’
visions of what students are
supposed to be often is
blurred. Resistance rose
evenly with each class. Since
peers are putting the most
pressure on students to drink,
Shore said she would like high
resistors women and older
students to spread the word
to the low resistors that not
drinking is completely accep
table. "Tell them, it's not what
a mature college student
does," she said.
by Wendell Williams
The nation’s doctors are con
cerned there may be too many
physicians in the coming decade
and that they may face new
restrictions on their practices,
according to a nationwide sur
vey. The study, conducted by
Louis Harris and Associates, also
found that half of the 1,814
doctors interviewed had enough
doubt about the future of their
professions that they would not
recommend it as highly as they
would have ten years ago.
The survey found 52 percent of
the doctors predicting an over
supply of physicians within a ten
to fifteen year period.
The study, which was con
ducted for the Henry J. Kaiser
foundtion, said, "Residents are
somewhat less likely to feel this
way than practitioners.”
The study also found that 82
percent believed “private health
insurance supplies will set some
kind of ceilings on fee reim
bursements paid to physicians in
most or all of the states in the
next decade.”
Only 22 percent believed this
change will for the better, while
48 percent believed it will be for
the worst. Twenty-five percent
believed it will have no effect.
Overall, however, the doctors
did not believe increased com
petition will lead to lower fees
and hospital costs.
“Ultimately, the fees doctors
charge will not be effected by a
level of competition which is
expected to increase dramatical
ly in the coming decade,” the
study said.
Tuition At Higher Priced Colleges
May Be $50,000 In 3 More Years
United Press International
(7/17/82)
NEW YORK - A $50,000 tab for
a college education at the
higher-priced private schools
soon will wallop thousands of
American budgets.
A United Press International
survey showed that some
tuitions will reach $12,000 a year
in the 1982-83 school year.
If the prices keep gojng up the
cost of four years will be more
than $50,000 by 1985 at the most
expensive schools.
For bargain hunters, there are
the stateuniversitiessuchas those
in Texas, heavily subsidized by
state funds where the appropria
tion per student in a public
university is $4,354.
The cost to the student is $4 a
credit or $120 for a full load of 30
credits during the school year.
The state appropriations per
student at the public colleges in
the nation range from a high of
$12,712 in Alaska to a low of
$1,943 in New Hampshire.
At many other state univer
sities increases are expected due
to state budget cutbacks, said
James Trulove, editor of “Memo
to College Presidents” put out by
the American Association of
State Colleges and Universities.
In the academic stratosphere,
meanwhile, all-time high bills in
the $12,000 ballpark are pro
jected mostly at the expensive
private schools such as Yale
University and Stanford Univer
sity. There are dozens of such
schools across America.
The figure for four years
covers tuition, room and board
and miscellaneous expenses.
Along the higher education
trail, there is this old saw:
The tuition part of the bill at
private schools historically has
kept pace with the price of a
Chevrolet.
The formula checked out.
The new tuition at Yale, for
example, will be $8,190. Bruce
MacDonald at General Motors
Corp. in Detroit, Mich., was
asked what kind of a Chevrolet
that would buy.
He settled on a full size car. A
four-door Impala. Price? $8,300.
(reprinted with permission)
You Can Learn On The Job
Do you want to get a jump on the job
market and obtain valuable work skills at
the same time? Then, the Clark College
Experiential Learning Program is for you.
The innovative program, formerly
known as the Business Intership Program
and launched in 1965, prepares students
for business careers in order to give them
more realistic and practical experience in
the classroom.
The program was designed to meet the
needs of Afro - American students who
normally lack the opportunity to learn
about the actual operations of business
firms. Now open to students and faculty
members in all disciplines, the Ex-
perimential Learning Program places
interns in the public and private sector for
career related experiences.
The program enables executive to
establish an on-going relationship with
the College for recruitment of personnel.
In turn, the intern gets the opportunity to
by Mark Armstrong (11-2-1
put classroom theory to use through
practical applications in a work place.
Faculty members profit from the
program through the faculty develop
ment component. Through this compo
nent, faculty members can get interships
where they can measure theorectical
experiences against empirical frame of
reference. In this capacity, the program
helps instructors in counseling students
on career opportunities and in keeping
abreast of the latest working procedures.
Students, interested in the Experintial
Learning Program, enroll in two career
education courses ELP Pre-Intership 487
and ELP Intership 488 which helps them
find out how skills, abilities and oc
cupational personality can be marketed in
the work world.
At the pre - intership phase, students
make contacts with partcipating firms
after various experiences in self develop
ment, career awareness and career ex-
Clark College Panther
ploration. After initial contact with
prospective interns, each participating
firm determines whether its objectives
and those of the intern will be best served
by a general exposure program or con
centration in a specific area. The ELP
director, who must approve each firm’s
plan, helps work out details.
During the intership phase, students
are under constant supervision of
designated company personnel # or
departmental Masons. Through ongoing
seminars or upon returning from distant
placement, students relate their work
experiences with what they have learned
in the classroom. Another part of the
course requirements include oral and
written presentation by intern groups,
where faculty and employer participation
is encouraged.
The program, which operates during
three periods-September - December,
January - June - July - August-agrees with
the College’s semester operation, with
brief interuptions for holidays and
scheduled recess periods. Work periods
may include a full - or part-time work
schedule of 24 hours per week, during any
of the three periods. Participating
employers compensate interns at a
negotiable rate.
The Experimential Learning Program is
open to most undergraudate Atlanta
University Center students. Students, who
satifactorily complete the Program,
receive course credit that corresponds
with that allowed by for respecive depart
ment. Students may earn half credit (four
hours) to full credit (eight hours) hours,
depending in the intern assignment.
Those interested in ELP should contact
Jennye T. Harland in the Business Educa
tion Department of McPheeters-Dennis
Hall, on the Clark campus, or call her at
(404) 681-3080, Ext. 165/166.
(reprinted with permission)