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Overseas Outlooks: Pluralism, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Overseas Outlooks: Pluralism, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Pluralism, a concept which is growing in importance at the University, is easily considered in the abstract as a positive but vague goal. The USAID-sponsored CASS (Cooperative Association States for Scholarships) program is playing a significant role in transforming cultural diversity from an abstract ideal to a tangible reality.


Franco-American Center In 18th Year Of Publishing, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Franco-American Center In 18th Year Of Publishing, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The Franco-American Center, in its 18th year of publishing, has recently published its first issue of Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum for 1990-91.


Center Studies Possible Spirituality Beyond The Senses, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Center Studies Possible Spirituality Beyond The Senses, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

It's an artist's inspiration and in the feelings one gets looking at a spectacular sunset. It can be found in dreams, premonitions, unexplained conincidences - even near-death experiences.


Overseas Outlooks, Maine Perspective Nov 1990

Overseas Outlooks, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Around the world, from Canada to Australia, from Latin America to the Soviet Union, in Western Europe and Japan, 57 University of Maine undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in Study Abroad programs this fall, and four are involved in student teaching experiences abroad. More students will participate during the spring semester. Wherever they go, these students, like the 50 returned Study Abroad students currently on campus, will bring back to Maine an invaluable international perspective of the U.S.A. and the world.


Maine Perspective: Campus Participation Sought For New Council On Pluralism, Maine Perspective Oct 1990

Maine Perspective: Campus Participation Sought For New Council On Pluralism, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A Standing Council on Pluralism at the University of Maine has been established to help develop, shape and foster and ideal vision of a campus which includes and celebrates cultural differences. Formation of the Council is one of Lick's responses to the recommendations set forth in the Report of the Commission on Pluralism for the University of Maine System, accepted by the Board of Trustees in January 1990.


Connecting, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Connecting, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The lecture hall was abuzz as the students filed into Sandy Caron's class. They knew there would be a guest lecturer, but few were prepared for who walked through the door. At first the woman appeared shy and hesitant. Dressed in a long calico gown and bonnett, she told the students she was there to "acquaint" them with the ways of family life as she knew them - back in the 1700s.


Confluence: A Series Celebration Multicultural Expression At The University Of Maine, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Confluence: A Series Celebration Multicultural Expression At The University Of Maine, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A calendar of public speakers scheduled by the Center for Multicultural Affairs to promote cultural diversity at the University of Maine.


Um's Children's Center Stands Ready To Assist Youngsters Fleeing Persian Gulf Crisis, Maine Perspective Sep 1990

Um's Children's Center Stands Ready To Assist Youngsters Fleeing Persian Gulf Crisis, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The University of Maine's Children's Center has been tapped by the Maine Department of Human Services to coordinate emergency child care services in the event repatriated Americans fleeing Iraq in the midst of the Persian Gulf Crisis land at Bangor International Airport.


Decade Of Research Reveals Profile Of Um Students, Maine Perspective Aug 1990

Decade Of Research Reveals Profile Of Um Students, Maine Perspective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In coming weeks, thousands of first-year students will enter institutions of higher learning across the country and face new challenges. But more and more colleges and universities like the University of Maine are determined to minimize a traditional trauma some on-campus students encounter - roommate incompatibility.


Swosu Eighty-Sixth Annual Spring Convocation, Southwestern Oklahoma State University May 1990

Swosu Eighty-Sixth Annual Spring Convocation, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Graduation Programs

This is the program for the SWOSU Eighty-Sixth Annual Spring Convocation Exercises, held at the Milam Stadium on Friday, May 11, 1990, 8:00 p.m.


A Hypertext Computer Assisted Instruction (Cai) Program: Teaching The Disk Operating System (Dos) To Community College Students, David D. Blanchard Apr 1990

A Hypertext Computer Assisted Instruction (Cai) Program: Teaching The Disk Operating System (Dos) To Community College Students, David D. Blanchard

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Students entering beginning IBM-compatible computer courses have a wide range of experience in the Disk Operating System (DOS). A large number have little or no knowledge and are very apprehensive and anxious. Others have experience and are bored when the rest of the class is learning DOS. A hypertext computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program was developed to teach DOS to a beginning class with J variety of backgrounds. The CAI program was demonstrated in class, and the students used the program in a computer lab, The results showed that more students passed a DOS proficiency test after eight weeks using the …


On Being A Role Model, Anita L. Allen Jan 1990

On Being A Role Model, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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