Word: shingleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Shingleton, director of placement services at MSU, said yesterday the greater demand for college graduates results from increased hiring activity in the energy, electronics, and aerospace industries...
...Shingleton added that during the 1974-75 recession industries "cut back on recruiting and hiring," which later resulted in a shortage of middle management personnel. Many companies hope to prevent another such shortage by hiring at last year's levels, despite pessimistic economic predictions, he said...
...holders of liberal arts degrees will have greater difficulty finding jobs than last year, the studies showed. However, Shingleton said "chances are good" that Harvard graduates with liberal arts degrees will find jobs next year. Any Harvard student "who works at it should be able to find a job," he added...
Administrators of some four-year liberal arts colleges are also moving to prepare students better for the world of work. The College of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill., which once specialized in training teachers, has revamped its curriculum to grant degrees in nuclear medical technology and business administration. John Shingleton, placement director at Michigan State and an early critic of "impractical" education, has instituted an "executive in residence" program that brings General Motors managers to live on campus for a week with liberal-arts majors and impart to them a feeling for the "real world." Boston's Northeastern University...
...Line of pickles to a customer who had refused to buy for five straight years. The problem is finding coeds to return the business recruiters' new interest in them. "They tend to get into education, social studies-areas of low demand," says Michigan State's John D. Shingleton, a national authority on job placement...