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Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting December 20, 1985, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• President's Remarks
• Report on Visit to Malaysia
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Recommendation re Reinvestment of Unitrust and Pooled Income Funds
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Board Committee Reports
• School of Music Report
• Report of Fine Arts Complex Landscaping Project
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, December 12, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: DMB awards funds for two centers, 1,280 degrees to be conferred at commencement, New programs will require new funds, Haenicke tells Faculty Senate, Children's Christmas favorite has unusual history, Five renewal grants top $50,000 in report to Board, Munsterman; Oxhandler appointed to new positions

Western News, December 5, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Financial aid available for nontraditional students, Arts and Sciences Forum Dec. 11 to present discussion on interdisciplinary programs, Nava; Torres to speak during Christmas Fiesta, Patterson named special assistant to Haenicke, New curriculum designed for undecided students, Black Caucus to sponsor banquet and dance, Bates heads Martin Luther King Jr. Program, 1984-85 performance review program summary report published

25 Year Club: Fourth Annual Banquet, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club

Fourth Annual Banquet

December 4, 1985

The Westerner Vol. 6 No. 3, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Halley's comet expected to thrill audiences less than it did the last time around • Project will help children with communication disorders • Board seeks state funds for business college, library • A television visit with artist-entrepreneur Gwen Frostic • President Haenicke hoping to bolster academic excellence at Western • Professor emeritus of history honored on ninety-fifth birthday • Sports • 1985 Development Fund gifts increase 45 percent over last year • WMU Foundation assets total more than $7.7 million • Dear WMU Alumni: • Career assessment offered • Alumnotes

Geology Newsletter- 1985, Department Of Geology

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol 1 No. 10

• Dear Alumni and Friends
• Geology Development Fund
• Advisory Council
• Faculty News
• W. David Kuenzi Scholarship Fund
• Awards and Scholarships
• Geology and Earth Science Club

A Study Of The Relationship Between Church Sponsored K-12 Education And Church Membership In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Warren Earl Minder

Dissertations

Church growth continues to be a concern for religious sects. Writers on church growth hold that all the various ministries of the church must assist the church in accomplishing church growth.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not persons who had been students in the Adventist school system had greater probability of joining the church and staying in the church than those who did not attend an Adventist school but were from homes where at least one parent was a Seventh-day Adventist.

There were two dependent variables in the study: initial baptism to join the church …

Implementation And Meta-Evaluation Of An Experimental Method For Evaluating An Administrator Training Program, Nancy B. Larsen

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to operationalize, test, and assess the utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy of the "success case method." A review of the literature revealed that although evaluation is presently being conducted in educational training programs, it is often not practical nor cost-effective. The Kirkpatrick model for evaluation provided the conceptual framework for viewing evaluation of training. A training managers' interview questionnaire was developed to elicit perceived changes in trainees' performance after training. Nine success cases, selected from a group of 37 administrators, were interviewed by telephone 2 weeks after the training. Selection criteria and procedures were …

Continuing Professional Education For Teachers And Its Relationship To Teacher Effectiveness, Gregory Allen Knoblock

Dissertations

In this study, the relationship between continuing education for the teacher and that teacher's effectiveness as measured by an achievement test and an evaluative measure completed by the teacher's students is investigated. The importance that number of hours, currentness, and subject area has upon any relationship with effectiveness, and the relationship between motivation for entry into and satisfaction with graduate/postgraduate work are also studied.

Data necessary to test these relationships were obtained from two sources: a survey of mathematics teachers in Macomb County, Michigan, and the results from two student instruments randomly administered to the classes of those teachers volunteering …

The Status Of Performance Evaluation Practices As Perceived By Student Personnel Administrators In Michigan Four-Year Colleges And Universities, Todd Steven Voss

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to seek answers to the following question: What is the present status of performance evaluation practices as perceived by student personnel administrators in Michigan four-year colleges and universities.

The participants, consisting of 25 chief student personnel administrators and 68 student service department heads, were surveyed by means of a questionnaire soliciting information concerning the existence of essential elements in their department head evaluation system.

An analysis of the data revealed 64% of the institutions surveyed had an established department head evaluation program. In addition, the majority of both groups observed their system as fair …

A Central Administration Internship In The Kalamazoo Public School System, James D. Arnett

Masters Theses

The Kalamazoo Public Schools serve approximately 14,000 students in 25 schools. Located in Kalamzoo County, the Kalamazoo Public Schools District is one of the largest employers in the county as they have 1,400 employees. The Kalamazoo Public School District is operated by seven member Board of Education and supported by the people that reside within the school district boundaries.

The internship involved 240 hours working with personnel in Central Administration in the areas of public relations, personnel procedures and practices, organizational structure, curriculum development and regulations in special education, financial planning, contract negotiations and federal and state programs.

Mediation: Fact Or Fiction; Force Or Finesse? A Synopsis Of Case Studies, Charles N. Carpenter

Masters Theses

The primary objective of this study was to observe a state mediator in his role during public sector contract negotiations and relate these observations to the tenets of conflict management and power sources.

Conclusions are drawn relative to the impact of the mediation process on collective bargaining.

Western News, November 21, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: United Way campaign tops $85,000; up 19 percent, New College of Business building; library modifications top the list of capital outlay requests for 1986-87, Student computer program aids Bronco football team, Minority program; nursing program; SPADA top list, Board approves negotiations with firm to development telecommunications network

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting November 15, 1985, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Capital Outlay Budget for 1986/87
• Recommendation re Telecommunications Project Consultant
• Cash Management Policy
• Montague House Lease
• Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Program Revision Requests/1986/87
• Recommendation re Continuing Education Rates
• Recommendation re Departmental Name Change
• Recommendation re Approval of Appendix B (re Committee Meetings) Board of Trustees Bylaws
• Recommendation re Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Board Committee Reports
• Admissions Report
• Adjournment

Western News, November 14, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Senate approves policy; resolution, Disappointing view of Halley's Comet expected, Microcomputer laboratory open in Maybee, Conference set on groundwater protection and management, Two named to staff in development office, Kellogg Foundation announces fellowships, Barnhart appointed coordinator in CWS

Western News, November 7, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Soviet citizens visit to conduct 'Dialogue for Peace', Videoconference focuses on arms control, Grant project targets high risk infants, Dybek wins $25,000 Whiting Writers' Award, Interest in ethics results in new center at Western, Nominations sought for faculty scholar awards, Translation expert to be Visiting Scholar

Western News, October 31, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Writer; naturalist and explorer Foundation Fellow, OPUS IV goal is $80,000, United Nations ambassador to speak on Africa, Haenicke stresses academic excellence in 'WMU: The Challenge of Our Future'

Western News, October 24, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Academic excellence theme of Haenicke presidency, Shils to speak at 'Politics and Religion' conference, Woman researcher conference set for Nov. 8, Board of Trustees recognizes 14 faculty; two staff retirements, Events scheduled to preview Matthiessen visit

Western News, October 17, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Two to receive University's highest faculty honor, Spock to speak during Peace Education Week, Student participation up 80 percent in Minority Mentor/Mentee Program, Intellectual skills conference set for Oct. 24-25, WMU; GKUW agencies work together closely, Three Visiting Scholars to speak

Western News, October 10, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Five to receive Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards, Trees to be dedicated in memory of Denenfeld, Giving to United Way has long tradition, About 2,500 expected for Brown and Gold Day, Foundation assets total $7.7 million; up 47 percent, Holland; Brown elected Foundation officers

Western News, October 3, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Whirlpool Foundation awards $100,000 grant, Paper Tech Foundation to meet here next week, Sixth annual Academic convocation to include Haenicke presentation, Maier to address WMU Foundation members, Continuing ed enrollment rises, Stufflebeam honored by evaluation society, Gatlin; Knudstrup appointed directors by Board of Trustees, Participation stressed in United Way campaign

Using Reading Journals To Improve Reading Instruction, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Current reading research is a strong stimulus for improving reading instruction. When procedures and techniques based on sound research are used in classroom or clinic, instruction improves. Basically, there are two types of research: (1) research emanating from colleges and universities and (2) action research launched at the school district level. University research is often conducted by professors and graduate students pursuing graduate degrees. Results of their research are often published in a professional journal.

The Abe/Ged Classroom: The Crucial First Night, John R. Rachal

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is a commonplace to observe that adult students who have made the decision--however waveringly--to return to the classroom to learn basic literacy skills or pursue the GED do so with a network of fears, frustrations, anxieties, expectations, and motivations that can both enhance and frustrate the educational process. The teacher, aware of this complex intermingling of frequently conflicting motives and feelings, should attempt to build on those motives which might enhance success, and mitigate those fears which tend to retard or even destroy it. This is especially true on the crucial first night.

The Westerner Vol. 6 No. 2, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Dear WMU Alumni: • 1985 Teaching Excellence Award recipients announced • Fall enrollment increases for the first time since 1980 • Engineering programs receive accreditation • Alumna Mary Jackson shines in benefit show • President Haenicke means what he says about his management style • Computerized data base improves registration • Board of Trustees approves 1985-86 operating budget • Attention is focused on quality teaching and learning • Career services aid alumni • Among Alumni • Sports • Alumnotes

Reading Horizons Vol. 26, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 26, issue 1.

A Disabled Student? In My Classroom?, Carol Ann Moore

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Act, P.L. 94-142, The Education of All Handicapped Children, calls for education of exceptional children in the least restrictive environment, often the regular classroom. Integration of the disabled into the classroom ends the physical isolation, rejection, and segregation of the special classes era. But total integration of the non-disabled and the disabled cannot occur without increased educational attitudinal changes toward the disabled. These changes involve awareness by teachers and non-disabled peers of the unique needs and abilities of the disabled, acceptance of them, and abandonment of prejudicial ideas about the disabled.

Word Puzzles For Vocabulary Development, Lee Mountain

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Most teachers say it's easy to come up with two or three kinds of word puzzles for use with pupils, but it's hard to find a wide variety. It's handy, however, to be familiar with a number of different kinds, since word puzzles are useful for vocabulary development.

Reading Education: A Twenty Year Perspective, Richard Robinson, Robert Jennings

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One hundred and seventeen national leaders in the field of reading education were selected at random from those listed in Graduate Programs and Faculty in Reading (1981), to participate in this study, on the basis of their experience and accomplishments (prominent research, major publications, and holding of national office such as I. R. A. President or board of directors).

The questionnaire (Figure 1) was designed to collect information related to significant changes in reading education during the last twenty years and the identification of specific people who have been instrumental in these developments. Fifty responses were received, and it is …

Reading: Why?, Mary Jane Gray

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The question in the title is open to some variety in interpretation. Among the options are the following: "Why should we read?" "Why do we read?" It is to this latter question that this article is addressed.

Individualized Vocabulary Instruction In Developmental Reading, Loren C. Thompson, Alan M. Frager

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Planned, individualized vocabulary instruction is an essential ingredient of developmental reading classes. The importance of the knowledge acquired through such instruct i on is underscored by re-examining just what it means to know a word. Although it is still not clear "if Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell were left in a room for three hours, they could decide that they really knew the meaning of dog (Anderson and Freebody, 1981), it is certain that words symbolize concepts and that conceptual knowledge is a requisite for reading comprehension. As Roe, Stoodt and Burns (1983) explain, "Words are labels for thoughts, ideas, …