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G83-648 Wild Proso Millet (Revised April 1992), Robert G. Wilson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes wild proso millet and its life cycle and provides recommendations for control.

Wild proso millet (Panicum millaceum L.) is one of the fastest spreading weeds in the corn belt. In the early 1970s, wild proso millet was found in a few isolated corn fields in Wisconsin. By 1987 wild proso millet had infested over one million acres in Wisconsin, had infested most of the southern corn-growing counties in Minnesota, and was present in Iowa, North and South Dakota, Illinois, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska.

In Nebraska, wild proso millet was found first in a small area in …

G83-669 Backyard Wildlife Feeding Birds (Revised May 1997), Ron J. Johnson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The first in a series of six, this NebGuide describes the essentials of bird feeding for attracting birds to your backyard. Bird feeding is a popular and convenient way to observe birds up close, and it augments the primary habitat formed by backyard and neighborhood plantings. Nebraska is an excellent place to discover the joys of learning about birds, with nearly 400 bird species, 200 of which nest in the state. Bird feeding can provide regular observation of 15 to 20 or more species that commonly come to backyard feeders.

G83-683 Quality Concrete For Swine Facilities, David P. Shelton, Gerald R. Bodman, Thomas A. Silletto

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses the major items to consider when using concrete for swine facilities to help assure that quality concrete is obtained.

Concrete is widely used to construct swine production facilities. Versatility, durability, and relatively low cost are characteristics that make it ideally suited for floors, walls, foundations, pen dividers, and manure storage structures. With appropriate design, concrete can even be used for the building roof and feeders. There are, however, certain major items to consider to help assure quality concrete and years of reliable service regardless of the specific use.

G83-651 Nebraska's Solar Heated Modified-Open-Front Swine Nursery, Michael F. Kocher, Gerald R. Bodman, C.J. Kisling-Crouch

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses the design features of this unique swine nursery, including ventilation, heating and energy conservation factors, and manure handling systems.

A warm environment is essential for young pigs. High fuel costs and the practice of heating entire buildings brought about the design and testing of solar heated nurseries on several farms.

G83-684 Row Crop Planters: Equipment Adjustments And Performance In Conservation Tillage, Elbert C. Dickey, Paul J. Jasa

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses planters used in conservation tillage systems and gives recommendations for improving planter performance.

The planter's primary job is to place seed where it will germinate and grow. Proper seed spacing minimizes competition for the light, nutrients and soil moisture essential for crop growth.

Several factors influence planter performance, including adjustments and correct operation. Field conditions also are important.

Traditionally, producers used tillage equipment that created a well-tilled, residue-free seedbed for planting. Many producers now are adopting conservation tillage methods that have fewer tillage operations and leave a protective residue cover on the soil surface.

G83-673 Maturity Dates And Freeze Risks Based On Growing Degree Days, Ralph E. Neild, D. T. Smith

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Explanation of growing degree days (GDD) necessary for crop maturity and tables showing estimated maturity dates and freeze risks for different GDD accumulations for different planting times in regions of Nebraska.

The concept of growing degree days (GDD) resulted from observations that:

There is a base temperature below which plants do not grow.

The rate of growth increases with temperature above this base.

Crop hybrids require different GDD accumulations to reach maturity.

Heg83-177 Budgeting Systems When There Are Two Earners In The Household, Kathleen Prochaska-Cue

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This publication describes various ways of managing the income of two earners in the same household, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Two earners in the household pose additional problems for the money management system. Should each person have money that is not accountable to the other -- money that is one's own? How are the bills to be paid? Should they be divided down the middle with each spouse taking responsibility for separate items (one gets the mortgage, the other the car payment), or is one partner responsible for all the basics and the other for the frills? …

G83-659 Irrigating Onions, C. Dean Yonts, David Nuland, Paul Fischbach

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide outlines the onion's water requirements as it develops through the season and how to best meet them to assure marketable grade and optimum yield.

Growing an irrigationd crop of onions is a very involved process. This is because the onion is a shallow rooted biennial that depends on daylength and temperature for the development of the marketable product—the bulb.

G83-638 Strawberry Pests, Timothy P. Miller, David L. Keith

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses the more common pests of strawberries in Nebraska, their damage, and recommended control procedures.

Several pests attack strawberries and cause varying types and degrees of injury. Damaging infestations of strawberry pests do not occur in Nebraska in most years. However, control measures are occasionally required to maintain quality, yield, and health of the strawberry bed.

G83-674 Hazardous Waste Management Requirements For Pesticide Applicators (Revised November 1987), Edward F. Vitzthum, Roger E. Gold, Emery W. Nelson, Larry D. Schulze

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide is to inform Nebraska pesticide applicators about selected provisions of federal and state hazardous waste laws and regulations.

Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) because of widespread indiscriminate disposal of hazardous chemicals. Under provisions of that law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established national standards for proper management of hazardous wastes. "Management," as EPA uses the term, includes generating, transporting, storing, treating and disposing of hazardous waste.

G83-666 Breeding Soundness Examination Of Beef Bulls, James A. Gosey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes factors to consider when evaluating a beef bull's reproductive ability. These include the reproductive tract, semen and mating desire. A herd bull that will settle a higher percentage of cows during a limited breeding season is essential to a successful cow-calf operation. In many cow-calf operations, however, the bull's role in the herd's reproductive performance is taken for granted. The bull's fertility is several times more important than that of a cow. Each bull can be expected to settle as many as 30 cows. The bull also contributes half of the genetic potential of the entire calf …

G83-655 Management Of Early Weaned Calves, Paul Q. Guyer

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses the benefits and disadvantages of weaning beef calves early, including rations and methods for both drylot and pasture-grain feeding programs.

Early weaning of beef calves is a management practice that should be considered under situations such as fall calving, drylot cow-calf production and drought. In areas where forage quality is very poor in late summer and early fall, early weaning might also be considered as a regular practice. Early weaning can enhance the efficiency of drylot cow-calf operations by allowing greater use of poor quality roughages by the cow herd.

Information On Sessions

POD Network Conference Materials

Call for Sessions, by Bette LaSere Erickson

Information Sheet on POD Conference Track on Transitions from Academe to Business, by Lance C. Buhl

Memorandum, by Joanne Kurfiss

1983 Pod Conference Directory

POD Network Conference Materials

Directory

Additions

Membership Directory Form

Registration Materials

POD Network Conference Materials

Letter, by LuAnn Wilkerson

Registration Form (1983-1984 Membership Dues, Conference Registration Fees, Reservations for Room and Board at Airlie, Ground Transportation)

The Desegregated School And Status Relationships Among Anglo And Hispanic Students, Peter Iadicola, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Desgregated elementary school students display verbal and non-verbal indicators of status relationships in a structured, videotaped interaction game. Both Hispanic and Anglo third grade student responses are analyzed across ten schools for a case study of factors that influence racial/ethnic integration outcomes. Variance in student outcomes are primarily explained by socioeconomic dimensions of the schools. These findings suggest that school desegregation poses a contradiction for Hispanic students.

Editorial Matter 1983

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Foreword

Table of Contents

Personal Consultation And Contractual Planning In Stimulating Faculty Growth: The Faculty Development Program At Northern Illinois University, L. Terry Oggel, Edwin L. Simpson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Development of Faculty Development at NIU

Barriers to Development

Conducting the Program

Individual Cases

Faculty Reactions to the Program

Future Development of the Program

Conclusion

Intervention: Moving University Units Toward Organizational Effectiveness, David B. Whitcomb, Susanne W. Whitcomb

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Background

Figure A The OD Cube: A scheme for Classifying OD Interventions

Theoretical Underpinnings

Application

Sample Case

Problem/Situation/Setting

The Intervention

Feedback Session

The Results

Follow-Up Evaluation

Analysis

Gibb's Checklist

Additional Outcomes

Discussion of Other Interventions

Summary

References

Career Stages: Implications For Faculty Instructional Development, Lynn L. Mortensen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Current Research on Career Stages of Faculty

Instructional Development Needs Identified by Faculty at Different Career Stages

Implications for Instructional Development

Conclusion

Bibliography

On Improving Testing: A Student Evaluation Study, Marina Estabrook, Daniel L. Wick

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Method

Results

Number of Exams Students Take

Kind of Exams Students Take

Evaluation of Course Exams Depending on Test Format

Students' Best and Worst Testing Experiences

Best Test Experiences

Worst Test Experiences

Conclusion

Implications for Instructional Development Centers

TRC Student Evaluation of Testing

Computer Literacy: Teach Yourself, Barbara M. Florini

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

What is Computer Literacy?

Computer Hardware

Software

Floppy Disks

User-friendly

Uses For Computers:

Word Processing, CAI/CMI, Data Bases, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Super Program, Your Investment

Issues

Next Steps

Section Ii: Promoting Adaptability In Higher Education, Michael Davis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The current decade has been a period of reduced resources, tight competition for students, uneven demand for faculty from various specialties, and a more stable and mature professoriate. Colleges and universities are searching for models and programs to enable them to turn threatening conditions into opportunities for change and progress. The resistance to change is sometimes strong, and new perspectives and ideas can be helpful in breaking the log jam of resistance. The four papers in this section present perspectives that can be valuable in promoting individual and organizational vigor. Each perspective has roots in human development or organizational development …

An Individualized Teaching Approach: "Audio-Tutorial", Robert K. Snortland

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Background

L-L Graphics and A-T Graphics Compared

Results

Economic Analysis

Conclusions

Improving Academic Departments, Sher Riechmann Hruska

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Individual VS. Departmental Development Models

Sample Models

Conditions for Success

Staff Skills

Results

Summary

References

Recognizing And Using Cognitive Learning Styles: An Exercise, Jan Buckwald, Steve Scholl

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This Exercise Is Not Intended To Be Proscriptive. The Inventory And Suggestions Generated During The Exercise Should Be Used Heuristically To Help Students And Teachers Be More Articulate About The Way They Learn And To Expand Their Skills In Learning And Teaching.

Requirements

Directions

References

Making Workshops Work, Jacqueline Davis, Robert Young

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Seminars and workshops--a practical, no-nonsense, relatively easy to schedule, participatory means of conveying and sharing ideas. Right? Only if planned and executed well. On the surface, a group session may seem to be one of the easiest best and ways to study new approaches to teaching and learning. It can be scheduled for one or more large blocks of time, freeing participants for other activities during the term. It provides opportunity for experimentation, a time and place to play out new ideas for the classroom before trying them with students. And it is a structure which promotes discussion, people talking …

Coaching Mathematics And Other Academic Sports, Linc. Fisch

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

It was one of those gorgeous autumn afternoons: a deep October blue sky contrasted with the brilliant golds and crimsons of the trees, the dazzle of the sun moderated the crispness in the air, and the spirit of the Homecoming crowd brought the stadium to vibrant life. It was a perfect day for football - and hardly the time or the place to be meditating about teaching. But that's where I first began to wonder ... to wonder why the football coach seemed to have so much more success with his team than I had with my mathematics class. A …

Long-Range Planning And Faculty Development, Frederick H. Gaige

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Long-Range Planning: An Overview

II. Long-Range Planning: A Faculty Development Strategy

The concept of planning is as universally embraced as parenthood and pizza. Through planning, an individual or institution attempts to gain better control of the future, to make decisions in a systematic and thoughtful way. We may ask ourselves how anyone could oppose a process designed to achieve a greater modicum of order in our individual and institutional lives. And, indeed, it is the rare voice that is raised against the planning concept.

Linking Faculty Development And Academic Planning, R. Eugene Rice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

During the 1970's, most of what was done under the name of faculty development focused on the individual. High priority was placed on confidentiality in dealing with faculty and efforts were made to maintain distance from the structures of power and decision-making within institutions - especially the Dean's Office. Faculty development was established intentionally at the margins of institutions. In the years ahead, professional development activities will move from the periphery of colleges and universities to the center and be increasingly linked to long-range academic planning and institutional development.