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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Circuit Court Dismisses Katie Autry Suit Against Western
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Four Dorms Converted to Single-Sex for Fall 2004 – Housing & Residence Life
• Hoang, Mai. Sponsors Help Give Diddle Arena New Look
• Coffman, Josh. Open House Discusses Proposals – Fraternities & Sororities, SKyPAC
• Clark, Ashlee. Activities Planned for Christmas Break – International Students
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Big Red Way
• The College Heights Herald’s Christmas Wish List
• Clauson, J.M. Tune Played too Early – Fight Song
• Hoang, Mai. Downing University Center Will Help Students Reach Goals …

Service Learning Models Connecting Computer Science To The Community, Carol Traynor, Maria Mckenna

Service Learning, General

Service learning is an educational experience that enables students to apply material learned in the classroom by volunteering in a real-world situation. This paper provides a brief review of service learning and describes two models that the computer science department at Saint Anselm College implemented successfully.

Incorporation Of Service Learning Into An Interpersonal Skills For Leadership Course Using The Serve Model, Susan Fritz, Brent Goertzen, Lillian Gomez

Higher Education

Interpersonal Skills for Leadership has been taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for more than 30 years and has been a key course students use to satisfy the communication/interpersonal skills requirement in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. While interpersonal skills topics are covered and practiced in the course, additional practice occurs through service learning with a client in a community agency. This requirement equates to approximately 6,500 service hours provided annually in the Lincoln community. This level of service requires a well-developed placement and evaluation process. The course incorporates the SERVE model for integrating service learning into …

Neighborhood Voices: Getting It Together -- Connecting Local Neighborhoods And National Advocates, Anne Pasmanick, National Neighborhood Coalition

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

This report, focusing on the national relationship to local organizations, local and regional coalitions, and the forging of complementary relationships, shows that the work of advocates based in Washington can be bolstered by a renewed immersion in the day-to-day challenges of "local" groups. The frustrations of the "local" groups can be mitigated with a deeper appreciation of the constrained realities of federal advocacy in a period of devolution, retrenchment in social services and relentless assault on the role of government in providing basic supports for people and their communities. The evaluation was constructed using a total of 216 surveys that …

The Future Of Grassroots America: Local Perspectives On Current And Emerging Issues Facing Urban, Suburban And Rural Communities, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Philip Nyden, Gwendolyn Nyden, Amanda Fox

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

CURL worked with the National Neighborhood Coalition (a coalition of national and local organizations concerned with building the capacity of neighborhood-level organizations throughout the U.S.) to collect survey data and conduct focus groups that gave NNC an understanding of current and emerging policy issues at the local level. CURL worked with NNC in presenting these results at a Neighborhood Development Trend Summit in Washington, DC in June 2003. The summit engaged community leaders, private and public sector thought-leaders, policy makers, and funders in dialogue about the most significant trends and issues affecting the future of neighborhoods.

Based on the research …

Feminist Consciousness And Social Capital: Bonds, Breaks, And Bridges, Beverly A. Beyer

Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology

Through in-depth qualitative interviews with five current or former members of a midwestern National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter, this thesis explores four related research questions regarding: growth of feminist consciousness; how feminist ideology affects the evolution of social networks, and vice versa; the impact of intersecting social hierarchies; and feminism as a force for bonding and bridging social capital in the local community context. Analytical tools include feminist methodology, the articulation model, an understanding of intersecting social hierarchies, and grounded theory.

Participants each explained their gradual identification with feminism differently as a result of specific life experiences, although common …

Changing Patterns X: Mortgage Lending To Traditionally Underserved Borrowers And Neighborhoods In Greater Boston, 1990-2002, Jim Campen

Gastón Institute Publications

The present study is the latest in a series of annual updates of the original report, Changing Patterns: Mortgage Lending in Boston, 1990-1993. Beginning in 1998, the reports’ geographic scope was expanded to include an examination of mortgage lending patterns in 27 cities and towns surrounding the city of Boston. In this year’s report, the geographic coverage has been further expanded t o include a total of 108 communities.

This introduction is followed by ten pages of text that identify some of the most significant findings that emerge from the extensive set of tables and charts that constitute the …

Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, And Colombians: A Scan Of Needs Of Recent Latin American Immigrants To The Boston Area, Miren Uriarte, Phillip Granberry, Megan Halloran, Susan Kelly, Rob Kramer, Sandra Winkler, Jennifer Murillo, Udaya Wagle, Randall Wilson

Gastón Institute Publications

The 2000 U.S. Census brought confirmation of the increase of the Latino population and of the growing diversity of Latino national groups that now make this region their home. Latinos now number 428,729, a 55% increase over their numbers in 1990. In 30 years, the Latino population has increased six-fold, and from its initial concentrations in Springfield, Holyoke, and Boston its presence is now a fact across the Commonwealth.

Massachusetts Latinos are also showing increasing diversity, matching that of the Northeast region and exceeding that of the nation. At the national level, Mexicans have a dominance that dwarfs all other …

2003 Plan For Multicultural Development, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

No abstract provided.

"Fine Designs" From Italy: Montessori Education And The Reggio Approach, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Italy is not a huge country, nor one that dominates research in scientific areas like biotechnology or computer science; but in the particular field of early childhood, it can be described as a kind of gifted, creative giant. Italians have always revered beauty, architecture, painting, cuisine, and creative design. In a similar fusion of art and science, they have produced two of the 20th century's most innovative and influential leaders in early education, along with their methods of pedagogy and philosophies of education. The two figures were Maria Montessori (1 870-1952) and Loris Malaguzzi (1920-1994).

Both Montessori education and the …

Criminality Groups And Substance Abuse, Dana Brown

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This descriptive study was designed to determine whether substance abusers could be differentially characterized by past involvement in crimes and, further, whether there is a relationship between the type of substance abused and the degree of violence of the crimes committed. By comparing the socio-demographic characteristics, substance-use, and strain-inducing events reported by 598 residential and outpatient treatment seekers in the Kentucky Treatment Outcome and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement Project, this study provides further understanding of the crime-substance relationship. This study utilized Robert Agnew's 1992 general strain theory. Results suggest that substance addicts and substance users can be characterized in terms …

Barriers To Lesbian Health Care, Paula Bowles

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The primary purpose of this research was to examine a sample of sixteen lesbian women regarding the barriers to lesbian health-care. From this information several interpretive findings regarding lesbian health-care are made. Data were gathered via indepth interviews with each individual lesbian. The data suggest that most lesbian women do not reveal their sexual orientation to their primary-care physician for fear of reprisal. Most of the women interviewed do feel they receive adequate health-care from their physician. The women who participated in this project did so confidentially and were assigned pseudonyms. They were asked questions on a variety of topics, …

Becoming A Sister: The Socialization Of Women Into A Sorority, Kathleen Hughes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Adult peer groups have become more and more a topic for sociological study. It is a phenomenon that is starting to gain interest. This research focuses on one sorority on the campus of a Midwestern university and how this sorority manages to incorporate the women that they pledge through formal recruitment into the sorority and how these women fully socialize themselves into this group of women who already have bonded with each other. A synthesis of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory helps to break down the socialization process and shows how the new members move through the stages of …

Larger Issues At Stake In Unnatural Sex Debate, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The recent debate about the criminal prohibition of oral sex provides an occasion for considering larger, related issues. However prevalent the practice of oral sex and however archaic Section 377 of the Penal Code seems to those pushing for its repeal, the arguments offered have tended to take a piecemeal approach and display an ignorance of or disregard for the larger interests at stake.

Ua12/2/1 Ballin': Hilltopper Basketball 2003, Wku Student Affairs

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Special edition of the College Heights Herald regarding basketball.

• Buckman, Josh. Road to NCAA Filled with Challenges
• Schoenbaechler, Danny. Paul Sanderford Returning to Bench
• Casagrande, Michael. Camryn Whitaker, Todor Pandov Return After ACL Rehab Sessions
• Casagrande, Michael. Post Players Don’t Stand Tall
• Wilberding, Beth. After Three Years of Change, Seniors Ready to Lead by Example
• Buckman, Josh. Women’s Schedule Dotted with Southeastern Conference Foes
• North, Amber. Towering True Centers Give Foes Reason for Concern
• Schoenbaechler, Danny. The Chosen One – Darrin Horn

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Tuition Assistance Approved
• Reed, Lindsey. Plus/Minus Proposal Tabled
• Reed, Lindsey. Student Rally Protests Grading Change
• Hoang, Mai. Hilltop Wiring Replaced
• Coffman, Josh. Shuttle Bus System May Get Boost from Congress
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Dorms to Get Themed Living Options in Fall Semester – Housing & Residence Life
• Hightower, Kyle. Leave Worries Out of Holiday Season
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Class Cancellations
• Student Government Association Right on the Money – Class Cancellations
• Fisher, Lee. Turkey Day Not Complete Without This Special List of Ingredients – Thanksgiving
• Clark, Ashlee. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Reed, Lindsey. University Senate Expected to Vote on Plus/Minus Today
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Staff Seeks Sick Pay
• Clark, Ashlee. Native Song – Larry Yazzie, Native Americans
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Dorms Get New Prefix – Telephones
• Hoang, Mai. Log Cabin to House Cultural Program – Folk Studies & Anthropology
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Online Advising
• Fisher, Lee. Loss of Familiar Friends Makes Area Bare, Drab – Landscaping
• New Online System Will Aid Students – Online Advising
• Reed, Lindsey. Resolution Asks for Notification – Student Government Association, Class Cancellations
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Event …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Full Power Expected to Be Restored Sunday
• Reed, Lindsey. Advising Tool Being Created
• Hoang, Mai. Western, Bowling Green Technical College Create Partnership
• Toone, Stephanie. Student Takes Hard Road Back – Christopher Cherry
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Students Win Science Awards – Kentucky Academy of Science
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Power Outage
• Blackout Brought to Light Glitches in the System
• Balze, John. The Other Side of This Debate – Plus/Minus Grading
• Hoang, Mai. State Farm Makes $76,000 Donation – Gordon Ford College of Business
• Brueggemann, Marlene. Jean Kilbourne Warns …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Power Failure Knocks Out Lights, Classes
• Reed, Lindsey. Plus/Minus Hits, Misses Across State
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Taste of Salsa – Bethany McGuffey, Ines Salvador
• Coffman, Josh. I-66 Debate Grows After Road Show
• Casagrande, Michael. Bowl Championship Series System Not Good Thing for Football
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Power Outage
• Wijenayake, Wimal. Review of Local Restaurant Missed the Mark – Figaro’s Pizza & Pub
• Fox, Donald. Bottom Line: The System Just Isn’t Broken – Plus/Minus Grading
• Warren, Brandy. Small Gestures Don’t Capture the Gifts Given by This Beloved …

Ua3/9/5 Veterans Day Rotc Ceremony, Wku President's Office

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Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the 2003 WKU Veterans Day ROTC ceremony.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Western Among First to Seek Bucks for Brains
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Energy Use Causes Penalty
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Dream Makers – Theatre & Dance
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Dorm Renovations Continue – Housing & Residence Life
• Hoang, Mai. Increase Hits Bowling Green Community College – Tuition
• Bill Not at All a Problem-solver – Credit Cards, Legislation
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Credit Card Legislation
• Martin, Ty. Thank You for Being a Friend – Regents, Tuition
• Edge, Crystal. Warm Temps = Cold Treatment – Weather
• Smith, Shaun. Gypped Out of Spaces – …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Ernie Fletcher Elected as Kentucky’s Next Governor
• Coffman, Josh. Credit Card Restrictions Proposed
• Green, Tavia. Buggin’ Out – Ladybugs
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Scot Directs Play on Hill – John Doyle
• Glorioso, Shelly. Aftermath of War Leaves Many Questions – Iraq
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Budget
• It’s Truly Time for Change – Budget
• Pike, Daniel. Columnist Spends Halloween with Family, Ridicules Small Children
• Casagrande, Michael. Western Must Win to Keep Playoff Hopes Alive – Football
• North, Amber. Lady Tops Need Two to Clinch – Volleyball
• Wilberding, Beth. Betsy …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Regents Approve Spring Tuition Increase
• Hardin, Adriane. Step Into the Light – Ersa Austin, Alpha Kappa Alpha
• Hoang, Mai. Council on Postsecondary Education Proposes Budget
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Lawyers Ask for Dismissal – Katie Autry
• Plus/Minus System Would Equal Big Problems for Bowling Green Community College
• It’s Never Too Late to Go Vote
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Plus/Minus Grading
• Angel, Chad. Discontented with Dining Services
• Wicker, Misti. There Is a Price for Love – Tuition
• Ingersoll, Whitney. Food Options Slim for Students Who Brave Campus Life on …

The Impact Of Service-Learning On Academic Outcomes: A Statewide Study Of Michigan Learn And Serve Grantees, Stephen Meyer

Project Summaries

Service-learning is a teaching strategy that involves students in service projects that are connected to the curriculum. Service-learning has its roots in the ideas of philosophers, such as Piaget and Dewey, who argued that students learn more when they are actively involved in their own learning and when learning has a distinct purpose (Anderson, Kinsley, Negroni, & Price, 1991; Conrad & Hedin, 1991; Kinsley, 1997). A body of evidence is building in support of the positive academic outcomes of service-learning (see Billig, 2000 for a review). However, the conclusions that can be drawn from many of these research studies are …

Wai'anae High School Service-Learning Study, Rmc Research Corporation

Project Summaries

Located on the leeward coast of the island of O, ahu, Wai' anae High School serves a rural community with the largest population of native Hawaiians in the world. The school also serves a high concentration of students from low-income families and students who receive special education services. The Hawaiian Studies Program (HSP) at Wai'anae High School is a school within a school that began in 1997 with 30 students. During the 2002-2003 school year, the program included 60 students in Grades 10 through 12. The program is open to all students and includes wide racial, ethnic, and academic diversity

Service To Children Through Teaching, School Of Education

Curriculum

This guide features: Lesson Plan for Writing Letter to Military Personnel; Parts of a Friendly Letter; Book for Class to Welcome New Students; Describe Your Teacher; Know Your Town; Care of Classroom Pets; Picnic Game; Positive Characteristics About our Classmates; Teaching Procedures and Practices; and a Service Learning Lesson Plan.

Minding The Gap: An Assessment Of Racial Disparity In Metropolitan Chicago, Center For Urban Research And Learning, The Human Relations Foundation/Jane Addams Policy Initiative

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

In cooperation with the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago (HRF), CURL and the Jane Addams Hull House examined inequalities among racial and ethnic groups in Chicago. Drawing from a broad range of existing data sources, researchers documented areas of reduced inequality as well as other areas of persistent inequality.

Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Racial Disparity in Metropolitan Chicago examines seven quality of life measurements: income, wealth and employment, education, housing, transportation, health, the lives of children and the criminal justice system. This report, by examining these seven systems, not just one, creates a unique context for understanding both …

Technology Goes Home Evaluation – Executive Summary, Donna H. Friedman, Michelle Kahan, Tatjana Meschede, Consuela Greene

Center for Social Policy Publications

Technology Goes Home (TGH) is an innovative program designed to bridge the digital divide by bringing technology into low-income families’ homes. This Boston Digital Bridge Foundation (BDBF) program strives to prepare adults for employment opportunities and to help children improve academic performance by offering computer training and equipment to families in Boston neighborhoods and schools. Classes are offered in groups, with parents and children learning together in order to strengthen families and build community as well as skills. Neighborhood programs are operated in six communities through Neighborhood Technology Collaboratives, coalitions of community-based organizations. These coalitions select participating families, and provide …

Breaking The Silence: Advancing Knowledge About Adoption For Counseling Psychologists, Amanda Baden, Kathy P. Zamostny, Mary O'Leary Wiley, Karen M. O'Brien, Richard M. Lee

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

Provides an introduction to the Major Contribution for this issue of Counseling Psychologist. The Major Contribution consists of an overview article describing the practice of adoption and two detailed reviews of recent empirical literature related to adoptive families and transracial adoptees. Given the prevalence of people affected by adoption, the lack of knowledge regarding adoption among researchers and practitioners, the inattention to adoption research by psychology, and the negative myths about and stigma faced by adoptive triad members, the Major Contribution will have the following as its purposes: (a) to increase awareness of the psychological and sociocultural issues involved in …

The Practice Of Adoption: History, Trends, And Social Context, Amanda Baden, Kathy P. Zamostny, Karen M. O'Brien, Mary O'Leary Wiley

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

This article presents an overview of the practice of adoption to counseling psychologists to promote clinical understanding of the adoption experience and to stimulate research on adoption. The article includes definitions of adoption terminology, important historical and legal developments for adoption, a summary of adoption statistics, conceptualizations of adoption experience, themes and trends in adoption outcome research related to adoptees and birthparents, and selected theoretical models of adoption. The importance of considering social context variables in adoption practice and research is emphasized.