ALASKA construction trades, welding, refrigeration, clothing and skin processing, business machines, health, and drafting. This is to serve the State of Alaska in their programs and is in effect a boarding school. 5. Ancillary Services The State Division of Vocational Education now has a complete staff which includes a director, an assistant director, and four supervisors. A teacher trainer has been hired for vocational education and will be located at the University of Alaska. The following workshops will be held: vocational education conference for all vocational education teachers, teacher-training workshops in the areas of distribution and family life, in-service training workshops for business education, and a guidance conference. A manual, "The Vocational Instructor," is being distributed to be used by vocational teachers in the development and coordination of local programs with a special section to assist the adult instructor. A curriculum guide for home economics has been published. A business education coordinator guide is to be published in FY 1968. A workshop to develop a manual on evaluation in home economics is planned. 6. Transfer of Funds State transferred George-Barden Title I agriculture and Title III funds in the amount of $69,038 to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. 7. Estimated Total Expenditures under all the Vocational Education Acts (in thousands) The opportunities for employment are basically in the occupational fields, the professional, semi-professional, technical and managerial. A trained manpower scarcity is beginning to appear for some service and semi-skilled occupations. Hundreds of job vacancies are going unfilled in business and industry because the labor force possessing the educational and skill requirements to fill these jobs is not available in sufficient quantities. At the present time over four percent of Arizona's manpower resources (more than 20,000 people) are idle and not being utilized. The professional, semi-professional, and technical are expected to increase approximately 65 percent, clerical about 70 percent, and the skilled about 70 percent. To meet the manpower deficit during the next five years, Arizona's business, industry, and educational systems must expand their training capacity to provide training opportunities for these people. 2. Program Offerings All fourteen counties in Arizona offer some vocational education. There are presently 8 schools designated as area vocational schools. Throughout the State there are 8 counties, basically in the northern half of the State, which do not have any area vocational schools. 3. Program Priorities High School Emphasis on high school vocational education programs is projected to the occupational area where the need is greatest for trained workers--clerical, service, skilled, semi-skilled, clerktypist, stenographers, machinists, specialty sales persons, buyers, television and appliance service and repairmen, and auto mechanics. The trade and industrial education service has planned with local schools 14 new programs. New vocational office procedures programs will be offered in 18 high schools. A course guide, "Introduction to Agricultural Science," for first-year students of vocational agriculture has been revised to provide for a more adequate background in agricultural science as a base for all agricultural occupational fields. Practical nursing programs are being expanded and priority for the purchase of equipment will be given to this area. It is expected that a total of 100 new teachers will be needed during fiscal year 1968 to fill vacancies created by retirements, resignations, and other reasons to meet the needs of new programs. Post-High School Distributive education planning includes one new specialized program which will prepare individuals for careers in the radio and television industry. Two new community colleges in Maricopa County will provide for the first time programs in agricultural technology, agri-business, and production agriculture. Two new associate degree programs in nursing will begin this year. A new civil engi ARIZONA for full-time educational programing during the coming academic year. It is anticipated that an aviation technology program will be included at Cochise College next year. Four of the 6 junior colleges will offer some classes in adult family living and/or wage earning programs. Adult A class for home health aides will be offered. Development of materials for such specialized areas as legal secretary will be pursued. The family health assistant program will be continued and expanded on a State-wide basis. The three universities and the State Department of Vocational Education are cooperating in this program. Approximately 13 additional instructors for part-time and full-time adult classes will be needed to handle the expanded and diversified offerings. Persons with Special Needs - Arizona's Department of Vocational Education is planning 4 new demonstration programs to be conducted in the public schools for the educable mentally retarded and border-line students. One program for wayward or unwanted girls is to be conducted by the Phoenix College. Plans call for 15 new vocational education teachers to serve 1,620 students in a variety of occupational areas. An agricultural program to upgrade the proficiency of 23 trainees on the Gila Indian Reservation will continue into next year. Approximately 4 nurse aide programs will be conducted in cooperation with the State Department of Public Welfare for approximately 60 people. The "College" will develop educational programs of an occupational nature that will qualify the student for employment. 4. Construction of Area Vocational Schools Arizona has no projected plans for the construction of area vocational education schools since it is believed that better use can be made of the funds available in tooling up present facilities; making new programs possible by providing adequate equipment; and increasing the offerings available through institutions currently offering vocational and technical education programs. 5. Ancillary Services Staffing at the State administrative and supervisory level has been accomplished, State supervisory personnel will continue to conduct and/or participate in leadership development institutes, training seminars, programs of State development, workshops, and conferences. 6. Transfer of Funds State transferred funds allotted under the Smith-Hughes and GeorgeBarden Acts, except home economics and fisheries funds, to the An extensive study of the State's projected manpower needs to 1930, using 1966 as a base year, was made by the Industrial Research and Extension Center, University of Arkansas. It is estimated that nearly 154,000 new jobs will develop by 1980, with the greatest demand being in the clerical occupations. Demand for workers in the distributive field is expected to increase moderately. The growing metals industry will place heavy demands for manpower in both the craftsmen and operatives occupational categories. The greatest number of service workers will be those employed by the health services, principally hospital attendants and practical nurses. A continued decline for farm workers is expected due to advances in farm technology. 2. Program Offerings Ten of the 75 counties offer instructional programs in each of the 7 vocational areas. Approximately 27 percent of all the counties offer instruction in all or all but one of the vocational areas. Eighteen area vocational schools (including community colleges) will be in operation in 1968. Five of these are new institutions. Eleven schools serve the population on a Statewide basis. In all, some 480 new teaching positions, both full-time and part-time, will need to be filled during the coming year. 3. Program Priorities High School Approximately 135 new and replacement teachers will be needed for programs in all vocational areas except technical. Some of the new or expanded programs include orientation to data processing (4 schools), service station operation (1 school), cosmetology (1 school), marketing (8 schools), and dental assistance (1 school). Funds are not available for instructional equipment this year. Post-High School A total of 77 new teaching positions will exist. Of this number, 42 teachers will be needed at four new vocational technical schools and 20 will be employed at the technical institute which will open at East Camden. Program expansion will include instruction in advertising, art, agri-chemicals, data processing, aviation mechanics, building construction technology, chemical technology, instrumentation and mechanical technology. The two community colleges will be actively engaged in new and expanded programs. Equipment will be purchased for dental hygienist and data processing programs and for the technical division at a community college and a technical institute. Adult New teaching requirements by vocational field are as follows: agriculture (27), distributive education (3), office occupations (110), health occupations (5), and trade and industrial education (58 Most |