Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century is the third edited book published by the University Council of Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE), formerly the University Council of Vocational Education (UCVE). The previous books, Beyond Tradition: Preparing the Teachers of Tomorrow's Workforce (Hartley & Wentling, 1996) and Beyond Tradition: Preparing Human Resource Development Educators for Tomorrow's Workforce (Stewart & Hall, 1998) reported trends in their respective fields and also addressed issues that are perennial to workforce education. This publication is somewhat different in that it represents a collaborative effort among members of the UCWHRE, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. This collaboration symbolizes efforts to link theory and research to practice and practice to theory and research.

Article discussing strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach populations with disabilities in their corporate workplace.

Article discussing strategic planning of technology for education and a beginning framework for future technology implementation in school districts.

This study assesses the Principles of Technology Applied Science high school courses taught in Pennsylvania.

Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.

Article broadly discussing some of the technological changes in vocational education over the last 25 years, as well as strategies for implementation and planning in the new millennium.

This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.

Article discussing a research study to field test an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.

Article discussing research on applying technology to online counseling and suggestions for the beginning e-therapist.

Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.

Article discussing research on the aging process from physical, cognitive, and social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educators for the workforce of the new millennium.

Article discussing a study on the similarities and differences in public and private institutions training of resident assistants in the southwest United States.

This article examines the perception of 43 college chaplains across the United States with regard to cult training and perceptions of college and university cult activity.

Article discussing training older workers and implications for human resource development (HRD) and human performance technology (HPT).

This article discusses the Delphi consensus-building technique. Also discussed are the Delphi Technique's history, the process, and some advantages and disadvantages found in the literature. Finally, this article examines a technology-enhanced version of the process.

Article discussing copyright and fair use in regards to ethics in a changing learning environment.