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Best Practices For Voter Engagement Within Higher Education, Alyssa Tomins

Honors Projects

It is imperative that higher education institutions learn more about how to recruit members of younger generations to participate in future elections. Young people have historically voted at low rates, but that trend has started to change in recent years as more resources are being devoted to voter engagement among young people. This leads to the interest of understanding what best practices and strategies have academic institutions utilized to advance voter engagement on their campuses. This qualitative study analyzes these best practices and strategies at 84 colleges and universities, all of whom are members of The Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote …

Barriers To Post-Secondary Success, Douglas Swanson, Najeana Henderson, Maritza Sloan

Dissertations

This study reviews factors that prior studies have identified or failed to consider as barriers to post-secondary success. The three main areas include academic success for Latinx students after high school, organizational systems and their impact on African-American students’ postsecondary readiness, and what workers think of their high school education with regards to career preparedness.

Five factors are identified as major barriers for Latinx students to continue in a higher education system. A survey of former students from Saint Louis, Missouri, and Dallas, Texas, metroplex area identified 56 Latinx students that participated in an initial survey. This led to a …

We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro

Works of the FIU Libraries

This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.

Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …

Katie Muchmore For Wku Staff Council, Katie Muchmore

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Katie Muchmore.

Mike Loftis For Wku Staff Council, Mike Loftis

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Mike Loftis.

Phyllis Townsend For Wku Staff Council, Phyllis Townsend

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Phyllis Townsend.

Julia Johnson For Wku Staff Council, Julia Johnson

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Julia Johnson.

Tice Edwards For Wku Staff Council, Tice Edwards

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Tice Edwards.

L.R. Kennon For Staff Council, Lurien R. Kennon

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for L.R. Kennon.

Wren Mills For Staff Council, Wren Mills

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Wren Mills.

Kelly Scott For Wku Staff Council, Kelly Scott

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Kelly Scott.

Nominations For Staff Council Election, Tuesday 8/9, Greg Hackbarth

Staff Council

Email to all staff regarding special staff council election.

Call For Nominations; Staff Council Special Election, Greg Hackbarth

Staff Council

Call for nominations for special election to fill new positions on the WKU Staff Council.

Julia Johnson For Wku Staff Council, Julia Johnson

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Julia Johnson.

Connie Spears For Wku Staff Council, Connie Spears

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Connie Spears.

Cindy Wedding For Wku Staff Council, Cynthia Wedding

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Cynthia Wedding.

Hannah Digges-Elliott For Wku Staff Council, Hannah Digges-Elliott

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Hannah Digges-Elliott.

Martha Basham For Wku Staff Council, Martha Basham

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Martha Basham.

Katie Muchmore For Wku Staff Council, Katie Muchmore

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Katie Muchmore.

Jo Ellen Scruggs For Wku Staff Council, Jo Ellen Scruggs

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Jo Ellen Scruggs.

Greg Hackbarth For Wku Staff Council, Greg Hackbarth

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Greg Hackbarth.

Matt Davis For Wku Staff Council, Matthew Davis

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Matt Davis.

Mary Taylor For Wku Staff Council, Mary Taylor

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Mary Taylor.

Theresa Clark For Wku Staff Council, Theresa Clark

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Theresa Clark.

Special Council Election, Tanya Vincent

Staff Council

Announcement regarding special election to fill a vacancy.

Sara Hutchison For Wku Staff Council, Sara Hutchison

Staff Council

Campaign email soliciting votes for Sara Hutchison.

Wku Staff Council Election Results, Eric Wolfe

Staff Council

Election results for the 2014-2015 school year.

Ua1b Wku University Wide Committees/Events, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding university wide events such as lecture and concert series. See individual departments for smaller co-sponsored events.

Ua1b1/1 Rodes-Helm Lecture Series, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

These records were created by and about the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series which invited distinguished, and prominent individuals from the spheres of politics, economics, and the arts, to lecture at the university. The records include programs, and recordings of lectures.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for December 2, 2008 meeting.