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Knowledge Into Wisdom: Incorporating Values And Beliefs To Construct A Wise University, Susan M. Awbrey, David K. Scott

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Philosopher Nicholas Maxwell argues that universities today are founded on a philosophy of knowledge that is too narrowly focused on solving the technical problems of specialized academic disciplines. Maxwell believes that the foundation for the university should be a new type of inquiry that would have as its aim the improvement of not only knowledge but personal and global wisdom-a type of inquiry that would help us address the larger, complex problems that threaten our society. The authors agree with Maxwell but submit that the university has already begun a transformation to the philosophy of wisdom. As evidence of this …

Community Adjustment Of Young Adults With Mental Retardation: Overcoming Barriers To Inclusion, Richard F. Ittenbach, Brian H. Abery, Sheryl A. Larson, Amy N. Spiegel, Robert W. Prouty

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Movement of persons with mental retardation out of institutions and into community settings is occurring at an ever-increasing pace (Amado, Lakin, & Menke, 1990). State and federal laws have legitimized the basic rights of persons with mental retardation to live, work, and participate in typical community settings. Yet, physical integration is not synonymous with full community inclusion. Numerous barriers remain that serve as obstacles to successful assimilation into community life. For instance, successful social integration depends on attitudinal changes of persons without mental retardation—families, friends, service-delivery professionals, and the general public—toward persons with mental retardation. The way young adults with …

The Muse: Resources For Faculty And Ta Newsletters, No. 6, Spring 1993

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

An essay on style: Somewhere between baseball caps and mortarboards, by LeAne H. Rutherford

Editors' musings: Newsletters à la française, by Laura Border

Filings: More Muse news to use

Excerpt: A Dozen Hints for Drowsy Proofreaders

Design Review: Boldness and restraint make BYU's new publication an instant winner, by Linc. Fisch

Supplement: TIPS: A Publication of Seneca College, SPRING 1993, VOLUME 10:

REFLECTIONS: GRADUATING STUDENT SURVEY, SENECA COLLEGE, by Eleanor Kirby Badger

People in Profile: Erika Gottlieb, by Malea Litovitz and Renee Scheremata

Dear Dr. Kath: THE RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES COLUMN

THREE COMMANDMENTS OF EFFECTIVE LISTENING, by Abava Newman

Charlene's …

Acuta Enews March 1992, Vol. 21, No. 3

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

OSP violators fined

President's column

Non-dominant carriers face tariffs

Resource Manager joins staff

Long-Term Consequences Of Childhood Physical Abuse, Robin Malinosky-Rummell, David J. Hansen

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This article reviews the literature on the long-term consequences of childhood physical abuse. Empirical research is discussed within 7 topic areas: aggressive and violent behavior, nonviolent criminal behavior, substance abuse, self-injurious and suicidal behavior, emotional problems, interpersonal problems, and academic and vocational difficulties. The studies reviewed involve primarily adult populations, although pertinent findings from literature on children and adolescents are briefly summarized. Some variables that affect the relation between physical abuse and long-term consequences are examined. These moderator variables include maltreatment characteristics, individual factors, family factors, and environmental factors. The article ends with suggestions for future research on long-term consequences …

1993 Pod Network Conference Attendees

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Developing Faculty Multicultural Awareness: An Examination Of Life Roles And Their Cultural Components, Joanne E. Cooper, Virgie Chattergy

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article describes the use of narrative to develop multicultural awareness. Faculty were asked to examine their own "internal multiculturalism ": how their various roles and statuses reflect differing and sometimes conflicting cultural imperatives. Findings explore points of connection and conflict experienced by faculty within the university culture and foster the negotiation and understanding of various cultures in all member of the academy.

Challenges For Faculty Developers And Department Chairs: When Faculty Arrive From Professional Settings, Eric W. Kristensen, David R. Moulton

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper discusses problems encountered by new faculty coming from professional backgrounds to teach in subjects areas that have no academic traditions. Using the case of Bill, the paper describes difficulties these faculty members encounter and intervention techniques appropriate to them. Finally, the paper discusses how these problems are related to similar problems faced by all faculty.

The Contexts Of Housework And The Paid Labor Force: Women’S Perceptions Of The Demand Levels Of Their Work, Sheryl J. Grana, Helen A. Moore, Janet K. Wilson, Michelle Miller

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This research explores the work perceptions, both physical and mental, of women. The research finds that women’s perceptions of waged and nonwaged labor differ greatly depending on the work environment. Perceptions of physical demands of waged labor are almost solely dependent on the type of paid labor women engage in. For homeworkers, perceptions of physical labor are influenced primarily by the number of hours invested in housework. The mental demands of waged and nonwaged labor are also perceived differently. Women in the waged economy report significantly higher mental demands than do homeworkers. This too varies across labor segments. The closest …

Community Adjustment Of Young Adults With Mental Retardation: A Developmental Perspective, Richard F. Ittenbach, Sheryl A. Larson, Amy N. Spiegel, Brian H. Abery, Robert W. Prouty

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The community adjustment of young adults with mental retardation remains a crucial issue for all human service providers. No longer does adjustment imply simply the physical integration of persons with disabilities into community settings. Rather, it refers to the adjustment and integration of the whole person into community life. Whether one describes community adjustment as a process, an outcome, a philosophy, or a multidimensional concept (Bachrach, 1981), community adjustment has become synonymous with the term quality-of-life, a quality that depends in large part on one’s happiness and success in socially sanctioned, age-appropriate tasks.

Preparing Professionals For Educational Partnerships: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Marshall Welch, Susan M. Sheridan, Addie Fuhriman, Ann W. Hart, Michael L. Connell, Trish Stoddart

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

An interdisciplinary course was developed in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Utah, team taught by faculty members from the Departments of Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Educational Studies, and Special Education. This unique course was designed to provide prospective teachers, special educators, school psychologists, counselors, and administrators insights into conceptual and practical components of collaborative problem solving and conflict management. This article describes the initial development and implementation, as well as content, activities, assignments, and evaluation procedures of this course.

The education of all youth is the shared responsibility of classroom teachers, special educators, administrators, related professionals, …

Sibling Confl Ict In Early Adolescence, Marcela Raffaelli

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study examined sibling conflict and relationship qualities in early adolescence. One hundred four 10- to 15-year-olds (mean age 11.7 years) completed questionnaires assessing the quality of their relationship with their closest sibling, and were interviewed about a recent, specific conflict with that sibling. Analysis suggests that sibling conflict fulfills several functions in early adolescence, including reinforcing family and relationship rules and delineating interpersonal boundaries. Few differences attributable to age or gender constellation of the sibling dyad emerged, and rivalry did not appear to be a primary impetus to conflict during this age period. Instead, sibling conflict appears to create …

A Daring Proposal For Dealing With An Inevitable Disaster? A Review Of The Buffalo Commons Proposal, Karen De Bres, Mark Guizlo

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In December 1987, "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust, a Daring Proposal for Dealing With an Inevitable Disaster," by Frank and Deborah Popper appeared in Planning, a journal of the American Planning Association. While many alternatives have been suggested to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems of the region, the Poppers' Buffalo Commons thesis quickly made regional and national headlines. Since 1987, the Poppers, while writing and speaking on this topic at length, have failed to substantiate many of their arguments. Meanwhile, their somewhat facile assumptions have attracted a wide and sometimes favorable audience. This paper contains three …

Law Careers And Community Context: A Comparison Of Rural And Urban Experience, Donald D. Landon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The legal profession is highly differentiated by practice situation, clientele, and community setting, producing multiple professions within the practice of law. Using community size as the independent variable, this paper argues that the structuring of a legal career has less to do with the commonalities of legal training or the presumed solidarity of a learned profession and more to do with the characteristics of the community in which professional practice takes root. With a comparative approach, using data selected from a sample of rural lawyers in communities of 20,000 or less in Missouri, a midsize (150,000) Missouri city, and a …

Index

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 26 June 1975 in a firefight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation between the FBI and AIM, two FBI agents were killed. AIM member Leonard Peltier and three other Indians were arrested. Only Peltier was convicted. The Trial of Leanard Peltier carefully documents the trial in its social and historical context.

Accounting To Ourselves For Ourselves: An Analysis Of Adjudication In The Resolution Of Child Custody Disputes, Francis J. Catania

Nebraska Law Review

This article begins with an analysis of the adjudicatory process as it is currently used in post-divorce child custody determinations. Following is a practical illustration of the way the adjudicatory process unfolds in a child custody case. An analysis of non-adjudicatory dispute resolution—specifically a negotiatory process—for child custody cases is then given, and the article concludes after a proposal for a negotiatory process that uses the primary caretaker presumption and an impasse procedure known as Final Offer Selection.

Acuta Enews May 1991, Vol. 20, No. 5

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Golf outing set for St. Louis

Network ties islands together

Reorganization at Chicago

Recycling phone books

Party Line

Call for nominations

Membership Directory And Networking Guide 1990-1991

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Membership Directory

Members by Location

Members by Institutional Type

3. Assessment Of Val Id Ity In Computer-Based Test Interpretations, Kevin L. Moreland

The Computer and the Decision-Making Process

The use of computers to interpret psychological tests is a "hot" topic, both within psychology and without. It is hot in the sense of giving rise to an increasing number of books and articles (e.g., Butcher, 1985, 1987; Eyde, 1987; Krug, 1987). It is hot in the sense of giving rise to an ever-increasing number of business enterprises (compare any recent APA Monitor with an issue from 1981). It is hot in the sense of capturing the attention of the news media (e.g., Petterson, 1983). And it is hot in the sense of giving rise to increasing controversy within psychology …

How Attitudes Change: A Primer For Faculty Developers, Richard F. Lewis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Nature of Attitude

Theories of Attitude Change

Classical Conditioning Theory

Reinforcement (Behaviorist) Theory

Modelling Theory

Message Learning Theory

Balance Theory

Impression Management Theory

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Self-Persuasion Theory

Probabilogical Theory

The Foot-in-the-Door Effect

Conclusion

References

Edith Abbott (1876-1957), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Abbott was the first woman dean of a graduate school in an American university and, simultaneously, the first dean of the first graduate school of social work in the nation. Her leading role in social work overshadowed her deep roots in sociology, in which she was a major scholar of her day. She was a prolific author (Marks 1958) and specialized in the study of women's rights and wages. Her life was dedicated to the eradication of social inequality facing blacks, immigrants, people in poverty, and laborers. Abbott championed the use of statistical data at the University of Chicago during …

Hattie Plum Williams (1878-1963), Michael R. Hill, Mary Jo Deegan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The professional life of Hattie Plum Williams unfolded on the geographically isolated Great Plains of eastern Nebraska. She is the first woman known to chair a coeducational, doctoral department of sociology, and as the author of major studies on Russian German immigrants, she made significant disciplinary contributions to sociology. As a woman caught between changing definitions of the division of labor in sociology during the 1920s, she often is characterized as a social worker, although her professional allegiance remained to sociology. Williams epitomized the first generation of professional women sociologists on the Great Plains.

Lucile Eaves (1869-1953), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Lucile Eaves was a research and applied sociologist, a professor, and an activist. She was fired by a desire to change women's status and that of laborers, anticipating the contemporary concern with the structural ties between class and sex. She worked in the South Park Social Settlement of San Francisco, and as a faculty member at Stanford University, the University of Nebraska, and Simmons College. Her work for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union generated numerous quantitative studies of women's lives in a variety of contexts. She is one of the first sociologists to study medical sociology, especially women with …

Senior Faculty Career Attitudes: Implications For Faculty Development, Robert A. Armour, Barbara S. Fuhrmann, Jon F. Wergin

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Method

Findings

Satisfaction

Personal and Career Matters

Disciplinary Differences

Minority Differences

Gender Differences

Discussion

Implications for Faculty Development

References

Realism In Psychology And Humanism In Law: Psycholegal Studies At Nebraska, Gary B. Melton

Nebraska Law Review

I. The History of Law and Social Science at Nebraska … A. The Growth of the Law/Psychology Program … B. Sociological Jurisprudence … C. Experimental Jurisprudence … D. Social Science in Law … E. Psychological Jurisprudence

II. The Impact of the Nebraska Program

III. This Symposium in Jurisprudential Context

IV. Conclusion: Justice Blackmun as a Model

Appendixes

Fighting Fragmentation: Coordination Of Services For Children And Families, Mark Soler, Carole Shauffer

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Coordination of Services for Children ... A. History of Coordination of Social Services … B. Coordination of Mental Health Services for Children ... C. The CASSP Program ... D. The Willie M. Program ... E. The Ventura County Model

III. Characteristics of Effective Coordinated Service Programs ... A. General System Values ... 1. Clear Value Statement ... 2. Family-Centered Orientation ... 3. Broad Community Involvement ... 4. Involvement of the Educational System ... B. System Processes ... 1. Accessible Intake Location ... 2. Evaluation of All Needs at Intake ... 3. Case Management ... 4. Service Plan …

Early Childhood Special Education In The Next Decade: The Impact Of Public Law 99-457 In Nebraska, Deana Finkler, Cordelia Robinson

Center for Public Affairs Research (UNO): Publications

Nebraska has served handicapped children from birth to age 21 through special education and other services since 1978. But in 1991 Public Law 99-457 will include federal funding for preschool services and incentive grants for infants and toddlers. Because Nebraska has already been serving these populations, it will not receive new funds under the new law. States that will be taking advantage of the incentive funds will be looking to Nebraska-and other states with experience in serving handicapped infants and preschoolers-for precedence. Although under P.L. 99-457 policy has been set at the federal level, key state policy considerations remain. These …

The Fipse-Csulb Mentoring Project For New Faculty, Robert Boice, Jimmie L. Turner

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Methods

Subjects

Procedures for Meetings and Data Collection

Beginning Assumptions

Results

Involvement of Participants

Initial Skepticism of Participants

Diversity and Commonality of lnteractive Styles

Monthly Group Meetings

Visits to Pair Members

Benefits to Mentees and Mentors

Evidence About Ways to Pair Mentees

Concluding Reflections

References

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Appendix VI

The Role Of The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children In Interstate Adoption, Bernadette W. Hartfield

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background: Interstate Compacts Generally

III. Origin of the ICPC: Identification of Problems in Interstate Adoption

IV. Purpose and Policy of the ICPC: Article I

V. Summary of Provisions of the ICPC ... A. Article II: Definitions ... B. Article III: Conditions for Placement ... C. Article IV: Penalties ... D. Article V: Jurisdiction ... E. Article VI: Delinquent Children ... F. Article VII: Compact Administrator ... G. Article VIII: Limitations ... H. Article IX: Participation ... I. Article X: Construction and Severability

VI. Administrative Structure and Operation of the ICPC

VII. Barriers to the Effectiveness of the …