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Graduate Retention: An Investigation Of Factors Relating To Older Female Graduate Students, Linda Serra Hagedorn

Linda Serra Hagedorn

While admissions at the undergraduate level are experiencing a surge of students over 30 years of age, the pool of traditionally aged students is declining. These phenomena indicate that older (over age 30) students will also be enrolling in graduate programs in increasing numbers. This paper addresses the issue of retention as it pertains to older female graduate students. Data are examined from a fall 1991 survey and its 1992 followup at a large Midwestern research university. The study evaluated such potential obstacles to female graduation as concern family issues, relationships with faculty and fellow students, difficulty of the coursework, …

Report From The Chair, Esther Katz

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The year 1992 proved to be an extraordinarily successful one for CLAGS. We mounted a series of exciting panels, conferences, and special events, and launched an ambitious program of grants and fellowships for scholars and students. A good portion of the credit for the success of these activities goes to CLAGS's hardworking Board of Directors which undertakes the myriad tasks required to plan and implement our various programs.

Ua12/2/7 Wku Panhellenic Council Annual Report, Wku Panhellenic Council

WKU Archives Records

Annual report of the Panhellenic Council for the year 1992-1993.

A Linguistic Approach To Gender Bias In Student Evaluations Of Teachers, Paula H. Larsen

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Few people would deny that discrimination occurs in American society today. In spite of extensive national and local legislation intended to safeguard the rights of every individual, discrimination still exists although, of necessity, it is more insidious, often to the point of invisibility to all but those directly affected by it. Many groups of people experience discrimination in their everyday lives--Blacks, Hispanics, Vietnamese, physically handicapped persons, and the elderly--to name just a few. Another segment of our society, women, also experience discrimination.

The Effects Of Educational Programs About Rape On The Attitudes Of First Year Urban University Students, Mary Jodine Wolford

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study investigated the effects of educational programs on first-year college students' attitudes toward rape. Subjects included 132 male and female (60 and 72, respectively) first-year students in an urban university who were selected randomly for participation. Each participant was assigned randomly to one of four treatment conditions: lecture-style programs, videotape programs, role play programs, or control. Data were collected in three phases: one pretest and two posttests. Attitudes toward rape were measured using the General Attitudes Toward Rape scale. Data were analyzed using Multiple Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVA). Findings included no significant differences due …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Good, Epha. Yet Another Budget Cut is Looming
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Faculty Senate Wants More Progress – Budget
• Gagliardi, Melissa. Spring Break: Students Feel Blizzard’s Bite – Winter, Snow
• Good, Epha. Fraternity Pranks Involve Goat Heads, Firecrackers, Fun – Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi
• Vaughn, Beth, et al. Country Music Still Popular at Western
• Sweeten-Garner, Lena. Women Restricted by Dangerous Society
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon WKU Atlas Holding NCAA World
• Brown, Larry. Homosexuality Forum for Everyone – Lambda …

Nacs 21th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Redefining Chicano and Chicana Studies
March 24-27, 1993
Fairmont-Club Regent

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 33, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Poynter, Chris. Coaches, Employees Got Super Deals – Howard Lindsey
• Batters, Tom. NCAA Violations Possible – Athletics
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Opinions on Lifting Ban Swings Both Ways – Gays, Lesbians, Military
• Good, Epha. Greeks Out to Get Drinking Drivers – Alcohol
• Officials Mum About Virgin Rule – Miss Western
• Western Policy Should Educate, Not Discriminate – Miss Western
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon Doctor to Examine Miss Western Contestants
• Preparing for Cut a Wise Move – Budget
• People Poll: Do You Think Non-Virgins Should Be Allowed to …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 31, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Brewer, Mike. Thomas Meredith Proposes Affirmative Action Office
• Good, Epha. Kappa Deltas Say Goodbye to Housemother – Marie Kessinger
• Grundy, Julie. Hill Is Obstacle for the Disabled – Americans with Disabilities Act, Doug Froedge
• Shelton, Ellona. Americans With Disabilities Act Regulations Impact Western
• Student Government Association Presidents Fight Tuition Hike – Commonwealth Board of Student Body Presidents
• Brown, Larry. Homosexuality is Not a Choice – Gays, Lesbians
• Women Faculty Deserve Same Opportunities as Men
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon Big Red Justice Tipping Scales in Favor …

The Paradox Of Ideology, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard problem with the objectivity of social scientific theory in particular is that it is either self-referential, in which case it seems to undermine itself as ideology, or self-excepting, which seem pragmatically self-refuting. Using the example of Marx and his theory of ideology, I show how self-referential theories that include themselves in their scope of explanation can be objective. Ideology may be roughly defined as belief distorted by class interest. I show how Marx thought that natural science was informed by class interest but not therefore necessarily ideology. Capitalists have an interest in understanding the natural world (to a …

A Zepetneki Tötösy Család Adattára / Records Of The Tötösy De Zepetnek Family, Steven Totosy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára/Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family (Szeged: Attila József University, 1993. ISBN 9634819141 ©Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosyrecords1993 ) contains transcripts of published data, archival and family documents, and genealogies of the Tötösy de Zepethnek family and its selected collateral families. A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára includes data about other Töt(t)ös(s)(i)y families not related by origin to the Tötösy de Zepetnek family. The revised and updated version of the 1993 print book is Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family/A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010-. ISSN 1715-152X …

The Revolutions In Knowledge And Literary Theory: Their Impact On English Classrooms, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Since teachers, scholars, and scientists began in recent decades to study people who were previously marginalized or totally ignored, revolutions have occurred in knowledge and in literary theories and criticism. An increasing number of literature teachers acknowledge that they cannot ignore these significant changes. Indeed, they recognize that because of multicultural and global awareness, new questions are constantly being asked, new kinds of research are being done, and new approaches are being t:iken to subject matter.

Female Doctoral Students: How Age Differentiates Institutional Choice, Retention Enhancement, And Scholarly Accomplishments, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Susan K. Doyle

Linda Serra Hagedorn

This study, conducted at an urban research university, attempted to identify those conditions valuable in recruiting and subsequently retaining older (over 35 years of age) female doctoral students. The study used data from a Spring 1991 survey of all graduate students which solicited information about experiences, accomplishments, and growth attributable to the graduate experience. Seventy-nine percent of female doctoral students participated in the survey. Sample size for statistical tests varied from 257 to 309. The analysis compared the responses of women under 35 to those of women 35 and over in institutional choice, retention enhancement, and professional accomplishments. Findings indicated …