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Student And Teacher Effects Of Elementary School Tracking: An Examination Of A Rural Georgia School District, David L. Strickland

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

This study examines the effects of homogeneous and heterogeneous ability grouping on teacher and student performance within three elementary schools in a rural Georgia school district. Research methodologies included an analyses of standardized achievement test scores, a teacher questionnaire, and individual interviews with teachers. The analyses of standardized test scores revealed that 2nd grade students who were heterogeneously grouped performed significantly better on math and verbal skills than 2nd grade students who were homogeneously grouped. Teacher questionnaire responses did not reveal significant differences between homogeneous and heterogeneous years in student self-esteem, discipline, or classroom management. However, teachers who had formerly …

Applying Communication Studies In Hong Kong, John Lee Jellicorse

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article discusses the trends in communication education in Hong Kong, China. Since communication is labor intensive, the need for personnel is swelling rapidly. Obviously, academic institutions in the region are faced with a tremendous challenge to encompass these developments. The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist is attempting to meet the challenge. Hong Kong Baptist College, then a small, private diploma granting institution funded primarily from tuition fees, initiated its first program in communication. During the crucial period of its maturation from a diploma program to a degree course, the communication curriculum at Hong Kong Baptist was administered …

Communication Education Transformations: Implications For Curricular Change, Chris R. Sawyer, Phyllis Miller, Ralph R. Behnke

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article explores the implications of communication education transformations for curricular change in the U.S. Differences in education and training between public relations (PR) practitioners and journalists reflect, in part, effects of certain pressures brought to bear upon these professions. Any edge which graduates may have in the marketplace will depend on the extent to which their communication programs have focused on initial detection and measurement of related talents, skill development and enhancement, and discovery of communication-related careers that depend on the integration and application of these skills. With respect to faculty placement, infusing PR faculty into existing communication programs …

Alternative Career Opportunities, Or, Don't Sell Yourself Short!, David Balthrop

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article will attempt to discuss who is making an attempt to prepare their students for work outside of the field of study; pose the question of whose responsibility is it for preparing those students: faculty, universities and colleges, or the students themselves. In a survey sent out to all colleges and universities in Kentucky, only a small percentage (fewer than 3%) of the surveys returned acknowledged any help in the form of organized, structured post-graduation job opportunity discussions. All the forms returned indicated that the students wanted and needed that type of instruction. In order to locate other job …

Faculty Perceptions Of Undergraduate Teaching, Deborah Olsen, Ada B. Simmons

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The purpose of this study was to construct an accurate depiction of the undergraduate teaching portion of the faculty role at a large, public research university, drawing from interviews conducted with 114 faculty. The interview schedule investigated teaching load, course goals, perceptions of undergraduate students, modes of evaluating student learning, office hours and advising, professional role interests and time allocation, feedback about teaching performance, strategies for improving teaching, and satisfaction with teaching. The findings of the current study reveal that faculty are highly committed to undergraduate teaching and are profoundly concerned with students' intellectual development. Results also suggest how complex …

Safe Places, Fair Practices, Trust: Sexual Harassment In Communication And Theatre, Robert J. Wills

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the role of school administrators in addressing sexual harassment in theater and communication programs. On college and university campuses, by and large, men have power. Women on campus by and large trust these men who have power. The trust in such a relationship is precious, built over time through consistency, responsiveness and mutual concerns. Sexual harassment breaks that trust, destroys it completely, and in the process wounds those who are involved. The 9 to 5 organization has concluded that a strong policy is the best way to combat sexual harassment. A written policy easily becomes both the …

Newspaper Readership Among College Students In The Information Age: The Influence Of Telecommunication Technology, David J. Atkin

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article focuses on the influence of telecommunication technology on newspaper readership among college students in the U.S. during the 1990s. The findings presented suggest an explanatory role for such factors as age in readership. Income and marital status are also important correlates of readership, perhaps because they gauge one's stake or integration in the local community. The resulting loss of afternoon leisure was a leading cause in the decline of afternoon papers, which have been substituted with nightly TV news reporting. Given the role that demographic and media use variables play in newspaper readership, it will be important to …

A Framework For Surveying Communication Effectiveness In Institutions Of Higher Education, Charmaine E. Wilson, Sandra Hochel

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines a framework for assessing communication effectiveness in higher education in the U.S. In light of cost concerns, most colleges and universities will opt for using internal expertise. This option is particularly feasible for post-secondary institutions in that they are likely to have available in-house expertise needed to conduct an effective assessment. The step of identifying available expertise from communication and other appropriate units is needed to gain broad expertise and multiple perspectives, avoid attributions of private agendas, and encourage units under analysis to view the process as a community effort. The assessing committee will want to set …

Mass Communication Education: A Plastic Rolex?, Tim Hamlett

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses several aspects of mass communication education in the U.S. during the 1990s. According to professor J. M. McCall, communication educators should be telling communication professionals three things. The first is that academics do know what the profession requires. The second is that knowing perfectly well what the profession requires, the academics have decided not to provide it. The third observation is that there is no place in a university for that kind of education, which is trade skills and vocational training. McCall's case for change rest on two pillars: university politics and finances; and media studies in …

Practical Strategies For Enhancing Ethnic Diversity Within Communication Programs: A Symposium Overview, Robert M. Smith

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Introduction to a series of articles on race and ethnicity in U.S. higher education.

Unique Approaches And Problems In Recruiting Minority Students: The Use Of The Media, Richard R. Ranta

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article attempts to put the University of Memphis (UM) in a positive light by providing a vehicle to show that African-American students play a significant role at the University and have indeed been successful both at entering the University and while attending the University. The University has been so successful in graduating minority students that the Educational Testing Service is studying the University's programs to see if UM success can be duplicated at other institutions. Obviously, recruitment involves a variety of approaches other than media including a special fall and spring African-American Recruitment Day, special enrichment institutes during the …

Expanding The Knowledge Base: Reconsidering The Communication Literature, Alberto Gonzalez, Huang Shaorong

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents a bibliography of books on cultural and intercultural communication.

Disciplinary Narratives For Change: The Emergence Of Performance Studies Within Athe And Sca, Ronald E. Shields

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the emergence of performance studies within the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Speech Communication Association (SCA). During recent years, the debate surrounding the emergence of performance studies within the professional organizations, SCA and ATHE, has generated both heat and light. Both debates centered on pragmatic and seminal questions of disciplinary cohesiveness and relevancy; each side in both debates also argued their respective positions from particular interpretations of disciplinary history. In SCA, the issue involved a name change within a large and respected Division: in ATHE, the entire membership was challenged to consider the …

Global Education Attitudes And Practices In Iowa High Schools, Keith L. Stamp

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Global education is a curriculum which is creating considerable debate among educators and lay people. The Iowa Department of Education has mandated that all schools develop a global education program. Clough (1994) reports that "the globalization of American society has greatly increased the incentives for individuals in all parts of the country to become more involved in world affairs" (p. 4) . Therefore, it is important that the attitudes of educators toward global education and the implementation of global education be studied.

The purposes of this study were to identify the attitudes of public high school principals and social studies …

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 12 - December 17, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

No abstract provided.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 3, No. 17, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Dr. Frank Conley
• Celebrating Tchaikovsky with Winter Reveries - Bowling Green Western Symphony
• Dedicated to Sunny Memories - Cherry Sundial
• Helping the Elderly Maintain Quality - Center for Research on Applied Gerontology
• Skipper, Bob. Perspective on National Health Care and Kentucky
• Warmth, Women and the Children - WKU Campus Child Care

College Teaching In Four States: An Examination Of Teaching Methods Received And Needed By New College Teachers, Lee F. Mumpower

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to examine what teaching methods new college teachers received and which ones they believed were important. New college faculty were asked questions on teaching methods to determine which, if any, were made available to them before they entered college teaching. The research questions under study were: (1) What type(s) of methodological preparation do/does higher education faculty receive? (2) What methodological preparation would be beneficial to new higher education faculty? (3) How do new higher education faculty learn methodological preparation? (4) What strategies could be developed to assist new higher education faculty in the development …

Professional Development Needs From The Identified Concerns Of School Leaders As The Change Facilitator For Inclusive Schools, Susan H. Belcher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was to identify the professional development needs of the school leader to facilitate the inclusion of students with handicaps into the regular education program. This was a descriptive study which utilized questionnaire methodology. The Change Facilitators Stages of Concern Questionnaire (CFSoCQ) was the instrument selected as appropriate for the study. Permission was obtained from Dr. Gene Hall at the University of Northern Colorado to reproduce and administer the CFSoCQ. The population of this study was school leaders working in Tennessee public schools. A demographic data sheet and the CFSoCQ were mailed to 500 selected school …

The Development Of The Parent Effectiveness Test (Pet), Sharon S. Morrison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Abstract Not Available.

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 11 - November 26, 1993, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

No abstract provided.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 3, No. 16, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• Art Faculty Exhibition Opens Tomorrow
• Getting to Know African-American Scientists
• Meredith, Thomas. Governor's Review Commission on Higher Education
• Strengthening Canadian Studies
• Hall, Jeff. Finley Baird: She's Making a Difference
• Henry Baughman's All-Star Tennis Player
• McCauley, Laura. When JFK Was Shot, I Was . . .
• Williamson, Nikole. The Letters of Henry L. Jackson
• Williamson, Nikole. Who is Princess Shirinsky?

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Cecil, Jill. Bar Owners Buzzing Over Group’s Letter – Alcoholic Beverage Control
• Cecil, Jill. Alcohol Advertisements Not Wasted on Students
• Tungate, Matthew. Tuition Hike Not as High as Some Believe
• Fritz, Craig. It’s Showtime Photospread – Paddy Murphy, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Pipeline Breaks; Major Repairs Needed – Facilities Services, Utilities
• Life Sentence Asked for Murderer – Cecil Simmons, Kristi Hedden
• $450 a Day Spent on Hot Air – Facilities Services, Utilities
• Housing Can’t Meet All Demands – Housing & Residence Life, International Students …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Tungate, Matthew. Council on Higher Education Votes to Increase Tuition
• Cecil, Jill. Shots at Alcohol: Group Wants Bladder Busts to End – Champions Against Drugs
• Root, Tonya. DUIs Account for Most Alcohol-Related Arrests
• Three Arrested on Drug Charles – Heidi Collard, Debbie Davison, Bethany Lindseth
• Worker Told to Be Good for a Year – James Willis, Eric Proctor, Facilities Services
• Barnes-Campbell Hall Has Another Fire – Housing & Residence Life
• False Words Don’t Please Students – Politicians, Tuition
• Lee, John. Editorial Cartoon Politician Tempting God …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Anna, Cara. Man Who Refused to Work Sunday Fired – Alfred Cook
• Ritchie, Christa. Stopping Rape: Everyone Needs to Be Aware
• Flynn, Leslie. Buck Stops Here: Students Rally Against Tuition Hikes – Demonstrations
• Tungate, Matthew. Tuition Has Nearly Doubled in Past Decade
• Worker Appears in Court for Fight – Eric Proctor
• Jones, Danelle & Ann Kinkade. Riding Up One Floor Not Criminal Offense – Housing & Residence Life
• Rose, Alex. Agree or Not, Views of Columnist Sound – David Bunnell
• Bruington, Rick. Students Need Way …

Pod Network News, November 1993

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

POD Conference in Rochester

Report on CORE Committee Decisions

Winners of the Bright Idea Awards

1994 POD Conference in Portland

Thanks to Editors of To Improve the Academy

POD Electronic Network

CORE Meeting at AAHE

Newsletter Enclosures about Upcoming Events

Announcements: Conferences, Journals, Employment Opportunity

From the President

POD CORE Committee, 1994-1997 Self-Nomination Form

Call for Papers for the 1994 Edition of To Improve The Academy

POD Network 1994-95 POD Grant Program

Membership Form

Finance Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Finance Committee meeting of the WKU Board of Regents to review meeting agenda; recommend acceptance of the 1992-1993 Annual Financial Report; fund balance allocations; recommend revision of 1993-94 combined budgets; review quarterly financial statement; budget priorities; funding request to Council on Higher Education; and resolution authorizing the refunding of WKU consolidated edcuational building revenue bonds, series H & J.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Cecil, Jill. Drinking Survey Results Mixed – Alcohol
• Good, Epha. Ex-Campus Police Office Shot by Suspected Drunk Driver – Allen Houchin
• Grundy, Julie. Media Distorts Image of Beauty – Naomi Wolf
• Loomis, Rick & Robin Buckson. Clash of Beliefs – Ku Klux Klan, Demonstrations
• WKU Foundation Directors Named
• Student Government Association Rally Needs More Support
• Lee, John. Editorial Cartoon Demonstrations 1960s & 1990s
• Molley, Sean. Harm to Others is Never Justified – David Bunnell
• People Poll: Who Do You Think Will Win the World Series …

19931014: Academic Affairs, 1968-1992, Academic Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from1968-1992. Items were received in 1993 and include notable materials from or about the department's organizational records during the assigned period. This inventory was created at an earlier date and contains outdated "location" information. Materials within this specific collection include Yeager Scholars Information; Yeager Steering Committee;Sabbatical Leave Requests; Search Committee Meetings; News Releases. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 3, No. 14, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• It's Oktoberfest!
• Celebrating Kentucky's Crafts
• Eison, Sheila. Turning on to Electric Opera - Michael Kallstrom
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Skipper, Bob. Stumbling Upon a Patch of Success - Frank Etscorn
• Hardin Planetarium Features Autumn Skies

Koinonia, Paul Borden, Tim Arens, Paul Nemecek, Rob Sisson, Andy Bratton

Koinonia

Targeting The Neo-Trekkies: Going Where No One Has Gone Before, Paul Borden

President's Corner

Book Review: Breaking Down Walls, A Model for Reconciliation in An Age of Racial Strife

Remembering the ACSD 1993 National Conference

COCCA: Film Aesthetics; Book Review: Hollywood vs. America and Hot Ideas

Focus on the ACSD 1994 National Conference: Convicted Civility, Can We Be Faithful and Polite Too?

Editorial

Leadership Retreat Held at Milligan College

ACSD New Professionals' Retreat

Position Changes