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Request For Proposal Microcomputer Equipment And Programming For The City Of Gordon, Nebraska, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This Request for Proposal (RFP) is submitted to solicit proposals from qualified vendors of computer hardware, software, and support for the Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools. In order to receive consideration, a proposed system must meet the requirements of the Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools as herein described.

Cart-Based Automated And Semi-Automated Residential Refuse Collection, Donald F. Norris

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No abstract provided.

Intergenerational Service-Learning: Contributions To Curricula, James P. Firman, Donald E. Gelfand, Catherine Ventura

Intergenerational

This article reports some findings from a national demonstration project involving the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) and thirteen colleges and universities. We studied 39 courses in which students were involved in service-learning in aging. We describe and discuss (1) the range of demonstrably feasible 'adoptions, (2) what faculty say their students learned from the experiences, and (3) faculty perceptions of personal benefits and costs associated with developing and directing these projects.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1983, Vol. 11, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha Residential Sales Patterns, 1978-81," by Jack Ruff.

During the past few years, real estate markets have . undergone many adjustments. High interest rates, inflation, and competition for investment capital necessitated major changes. On a national level, the subject of housing sales has received considerable commentary. The ability of sellers in Omaha to exchange their units has probably been curtailed as well. This study attempts to examine real estate listings within the Omaha/Douglas County Multiple Listing Service areas (see Map 1) and describe some of the changes.

Students As Resources To The Aging Network, James P. Firman, Donlad E. Gelfand, Catherine Ventura

Intergenerational

In times of shrinking resources and growing needs, the aging network must increase its efforts to involve the voluntary sector in services and programs for the aged. A relatively untapped source of manpower is our nation's 12,300,000 students in 3,200 colleges and universities. This article, based on the findings of a national demonstration project, examines feasible outcomes and practical limitations of service-learning as an approach for increasing the involvement of students in providing services to older persons.

Omaha Area Clerical Labor Market Analysis, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This report represents an attempt at determining the potential number of clerical workers and provides estimates for their availability that a new employer could expect from the Omaha area labor market. Data used in the calculations are the most recent available and are noted throughout the report.

Budgeting For Nebraska Local Governments, John W. Swain

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Budgeting is a complex set of activities. To those unfamiliar with its details, it is a mysterious rite conducted annually, and even those familiar with the process give a multitude of definitions. The simplest definition is that budgeting involves the acquisition and allocation of resources.

Strategies For Sarpy, Jack Ruff

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Sarpy County has grown more rapidly than any other county in the state and is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation. But what kind of growth? Let's take a look, and let's also explore ways that the county may add jobs and income to the local economy while diversifying its tax base.

Microcomputer And Local Government: A Program For Small And Rural Communities, Donald F. Norris

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For the first time since the Great Depression, local governments throughout the United States have begun to experience severe revenue-expenditure imbalances. Inflation, rising expectations, and citizen demands for services have produced governmental intervention into heretofore untouched areas. Combined with the generally decreasing rate of local revenue growth and with reductions in federal and state aid, this has produced serious fiscal problems for many local governments. With resources no longer available to provide prior levels of public services, many local governments have had to cut back on their activities.

Fostering The Adolescent: Trainer's Manual, Diana Kraus

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Fostering the Adolescent is designed as a curriculum to meet the needs of foster parents who have (or soon will have) adolescent foster children in their homes. Trainers will get to know the parents in their groups and use some flexibility in meeting the needs of those parents. The commitment made by the Foster Parent Training Project is one of providing parents with materials and training that will be helpful to them in fostering their adolescents. The curriculum is designed in ten separate segments, and those segments or sessions may be delivered in any sequence helpful to both the parents …

Evaluation Of The Children From Alcoholic Families Project, Murray Frost, Rebecca S. Fahrlander

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Alcoholism affects more than the drinker. include everyone in the alcoholic's family. Its victims Alcoholism either causes, is a result of, or accompanies other family dysfunctions. For example, alcoholic families often exhibit marital instability, family conflict, .physical abuse, emotional. neglect of the children, poor communication, and confused role structure.

Clear Writing For Public Administrators: A Refresher Workshop, Richard Streckfuss

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Since you have been writing for years and since you have had many hours of classroom instruction in writing, you have a right to be skeptical about a writing workshop. What can be accomplished in a few hours that could not be accomplished in the preceding hundreds?

That question has been the guiding principle behind this material. The most promising approach seemed to lie in comparing the work of professional writers with amateurs. To this end, the writing of a dozen public administrators was compared to the writing of authors published in such works as Harper's, Smithsonian, INC, Nation's Business, …

Graduate Academic Catalog (1983-85), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

Graduate Catalog, 1983-85

Tips For Implementing A Student Assistance Program, Van E. Cooley

Service Learning, General

A look at the demographics and other related statistics reveals that today's students come to school with many sociological and psychological problems that affect academics, student behavior, attendance, and the general operation and management of schools.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1982, Vol. 10, No. 07, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Maintenance and Management Needs in OHA Apartments," by Rebecca S. Fahrlander and Joan V. Holley.

The purpose of this study was to obtain input from residents of Omaha Housing Authority apartments for families and senior citizens regarding maintenance and management needs.

A Follow-Up Study Of The Goodrich Scholarship Program, The University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Wilda C. Stephenon

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In 1972 the Goodrich Amendment to the state appropriation for the University of Nebraska at Omaha gave the University an "unparalleled opportunity" to develop further its educational offerings and services to students from low-income backgrounds. The intent of the amendment was to make funds available "for a program to get economically deprived young people in and through UNO." Named for State Senator Glenn Goodrich who introduced the legislation, the program was designed to provide an intellectually stimulating academic course of study augmented by whatever supportive services were needed. It would aid achievement rather than provide a remedial program to prepare …

A Communication Methodology For Managing Demand-Time Conflicts In Physician Marriages, Betty Apke

Student Work

It seems a prevailing notion that communication is an essential element of marital adjustment. Moreover, a persistent theme in the literature on marital adjustment is that those who are well-adjusted are not people without problems but are those with skills and resources necessary to solve their problems. The happy couples have the same problems as the unhappy but are better equipped to cope with, or to adapt to, their problems.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1982, Vol. 10, No. 06, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha Area Income Change, 1969-1979," by David R. DiMartino, compilation and cartography by Chris Wayne and Tim Himberger.

The United States' Census of Population and Housing records several measures of income and wealth in order to determine the economic well-being of the nation and its citizens. Among the real measures recorded for the 1980 Census were per capita (individual) income, family income, household income, income type, poverty status, mortgage costs, housing value, and contract rent. The income and wealth figures were self-reported and, therefore, rely upon the accuracy of those disclosing …

A Study Of Police Officer's Perceptions Of Recruit Training Within The Omaha Police Division, Dave Points

Student Work

Recruit training is a key element in police personnel management in the United States. Modern police managers easily recognize the importance of recruit training in terms of job performance and police professionalism. The improvement of recruit training was given special emphasis as a result of the civil disorders of the 1960's. Following a national trend, legislation requiring mandatory training of all police officers was enacted in Nebraska in 1969.

Fact Book 1982, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Fact Book

This initial issue of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Fact Book was designed to contain a variety of information about the University in a concise, easily-used format. We hope this provides a profile of UNO that will expand your understanding of our institution.

Graying Of The Professoriate Reconsidered: The Impact Of Demographics On Criminal Justice Education, Vincent J. Webb, Timothy S. Bynum, Jack R. Greene

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The demographic composition, especially the age structure of criminal justice faculty, is of interest to students in criminal justice education for a number of reasons. First, an overall assessment provides some gauge of the relative age of the faculty in the field. Second, observations of changes in the composition of the age structure over time provide insight into the aging process and attendant developmental process of the field itself. Third, age composition has a major impact on the job market for criminal justice faculty. This of course, in turn, partially determines career possibilities for neophytes in the field. It also …

Survey Of Maintenance And Management Needs In Omaha Housing Authority's Apartments For Senior Citizens, Rebecca S. Fahrlander, Joan V. Holley

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The purpose of this study was to obtain input from residents of Omaha Housing Authority apartments for senior citizens regarding maintenance and management needs.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1982, Vol. 10, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "UNO's Economic Impact on the Omaha SMSA," by Murray Frost and Rebecca S. Fahrlander.

This study measured the immediate economic impact of the University of Nebraska at Omaha on the Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area 1 in 1980-81. It focused only on the expenditures of the university itself, its faculty and staff, students, and visitors, and the multiplicative effect resulting from the spending of those dollars within the local economy. It did not examine more long-range or indirect economic impacts-e.g., the impact of the presence of the university upon the area's …

Request For Proposal: Automated Data Processing Equipment And Software For Mccook, Nebraska, Donald F. Norris, David R. Dimartino

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This Request for Proposal (RFP) is submitted to solicit proposals from qualified vendors for computer hardware, software and support for the city of McCook, Nebraska. In order to receive consideration, a proposed system must meet the requirements of the city of McCook as herein described.

Omaha's Neighborhood Housing Services Area: A Physical Conditions Inventory, R. K. Piper, Jack Ruff

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In the fall of 1981, the city of Omaha embarked upon a feasibility activity designed to determine whether enough interest and commitment existed to begin a Neighborhood Housing Services program. After many meetings and much group activity, a financial commitment was made by the city and the private sector to undertake a program which would provide housing rehabilitation loans as well as general public improvements in a designated area of Omaha,

Management And Maintenance Needs And Problems In The Omaha Housing Authority's Four Family Developments, Joan V. Holley

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Members of the Omaha Housing Authority Board of Commissioners asked the Center for Applied Urban Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (CAUR) to assist them in obtaining information about the maintenance and management needs and problems in local OHA facilities. This information was needed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of building services provided by OHA.

Demographics For Program Planning At Ymca Facilities: An Analysis Of Selected 1980 Census Data, David R. Dimartino

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The 1980 Census of Population and Housing provides a data base that administrators and planners can use to assess the current status of their organizations and plan for the future. This report examines selected census data for the Omaha YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). 1 The demographic information should assist the YMCA in planning for program offerings at each of its six facilities (or branches) in Douglas and Pottawattamie Counties.

The University Of Nebraska At Omaha Economic Impact Study: 1980-81, Murray Frost, Rebecca S. Fahrlander

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The major findings of this study on the economic impact of the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1980-81 are the following:

1. The Total expenditure (excluding double counting) within the Omaha SMSA by the university, its faculty/staff, students, and visitors was $62.3 million.

2. The increase in the Omaha SMSA activity caused by the university was estimated as $56.1 million.

3. A total of $62.3 million of additional income attributable to alumni having college degrees was not included in these estimates of the university's economic impact.

Population Change And Crime Change, Deborah Caulfield

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The relationship existing between population change and crime rates in the central city merits study. There is limited research in this area, and the vast majority of the literature focuses on the correlation between population density and crime in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA). These few studies explore various types of crime in relation to population density, rather than the investigation of the relationship between population change and crime rates in the central city.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1982, Vol. 10, No. 03, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Crime in Grand Island and Hall County," by Deborah Caulfield, Kathleen Nicolini, Rebecca Fahrlander, and Vincent Webb.

Many community leaders continue to be concerned about the problems of crime and criminal justice. This study stems from the concerns of one such group of community leaders in Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1981 the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce established a task force on crime and the criminal justice system. In support of the efforts of this task force, a study was undertaken by the Center for Applied Urban Research for the purpose …