Building Bridges Across Institutions to Recruit, Educate, and Retain Excellent Language Educators

An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals

There is a growing need for biomedical sciences information professionals who have strong backgrounds in the biomedical sciences. This project pilots an innovative model for recruiting and educating students with these backgrounds. The project includes recruiting students from undergraduate biomedical programs, creating and teaching a basic course in biomedical information management, and award...

Recruit and retain. America's dwindling pool.

Strategies to recruit and retain college smokers in cessation trials.

Techniques to recruit and retain college fraternity and sorority members who reported past 30-day smoking into a cessation trial are described. Recruitment efforts included relationship-building, raffles, and screening survey administration during existing meetings. Surveys were administered to 76% (n = 3,276) of members in 30 chapters, 79% of eligible members agreed to participate, and 76% of ...

Building governance institutions across European Borders

This paper examines cross-border co-operation (CBC) and associated cross-border regions (CBRs) emerging within the European Union (EU). It analyses both as processes of institution building utilizing recent theories of governance and networks. The discussion is organized in four parts: ( 1) an overview of CBC in the EU to date and a suggested theoretical framework for understanding it; ( 2) a s...

Recruit, Retain and Lead: The Public Library Workforce Study

The data from the research suggest that an effective workforce does not depend on any one factor in isolation. People are attracted to the public library service because the work is seen as having a public service ethos and providing opportunities to work with the public and communities. However the overall picture is that the negative image of the profession has some basis in reality. The rese...