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Spring Commencement [Program], May 8, 1999, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Spring 1999, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Lgbta 2nd Annual Pride Week '99 [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A poster promoting LGBTA 1999 Pride Week.

We're Celebrating National Condom Week! At Uni Maucker Union [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A flier promoting National Condom Week.

Sexuality In The Americas "Silverlake Life: A View From Here" [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A flier promoting Silverlake Life film.

Commonalities Connecting Biraciality And Bisexuality : Building Integrated Support In The College Environment, Kelly R. Barrett

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to develop a better understanding of biracial and bisexual identity development; (2) to determine developmental similarities between biracial and bisexual college students; and 3) to provide implications for student affairs practitioners.

Treatment And Intervention Strategies For Battered Women : Breaking The Cycle Of Violence, Hope L. Huff

Graduate Research Papers

Partner violence is now understood to affect at least 8.7 million women per year (Roberts, 1998). As a result of the chronic abuse, many women suffer from psychological disorders requiring professional help. A large percentage of battered women demonstrate symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and somatic complaints (Margolin & Burman, 1993; Yegidis, 1992). Treatment and intervention strategies will be introduced for both individual and group therapy, based primarily on cognitive approaches.

Back Matter - Back Cover

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Studying Your Enemy: Ethical Guidelines For Online Research, Todd J. Schroer

Iowa Journal of Communication

In the expanding field of studying computer-mediated interactions, the ethical implications of conducting research ming human subjects are an inherent issue. These ethical concerns are increased when the population under study is a relatively powerless, marginalized, and highly persecuted group. The ethical problems are further compounded when the researcher does not share in the world-view, or goals of the research subjects. Since 1992, I have med computers to monitor, contact, and interview White Racialists {sic} in order to combat their efforts. However, this does not relieve me of my ethical obligations as a sociologist: to protect my subjects, to fully …

Northern Iowa Today, V83n1, Winter 1999, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
--Upswing in wellness at Northern Iowa Philosophy and facilities aid students-for life
--Helping make a healthier world Global Health Corps gives students hands-on experiences in public health helping underserved populations.
--Distance undone Distance learning opens opportunities in education, emphasizes quality.
--Creating prairies for tomorrow UNI's Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program restores vanished prairie along state highways
--Students First campaign will impact students both at home and abroad Endowed scholarships launch fund raising campaign
--Alumni profile: Robert James Waller Take your work seriously, but not yourself.
--Faculty profile: Willis Greer Truck driver, pilot, photographer. .. and educator.
--College …

Balanacing The Ethical Conundrums Of Internet Research: An Existentialist View From The Trenches, Jim Thomas

Iowa Journal of Communication

The fundamental ethical questions posed by new technology are not new. Basic beliefs in the precept that it is better to do good than ill do not change. What changes is that relationship between behaviors and the ethical conceptions by which we judge them shift and become ambiguous, vague, and perceived through a sometimes foggy prism. The problem for those involved in Net activity, then is not one of defining new ethical principles or revising or identifying new categorical imperatives. Our task instead is one of understanding the social bases of the relationship between technology and conflicts over the meaning …

The Developmental Implications Of Parental Loss During Adolescence, Dacni C. Jones

Graduate Research Papers

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature that relates to the death of a parent and how this experience influences an adolescent. This review will answer the question of how adolescent cognitive, emotional, and social development is affected when a parent dies. After a brief definition of the words "adolescence" and "loss," the focus of this paper will be on the areas of cognitive, emotional, and social development and the effects of grief on development after a parent dies. This information can help mental health professionals and school counselors understand the impact of living through the experience of …

Anger, Racism, And Anger Management Therapy With African American Adolescents, Rachel A. Dennis

Graduate Research Papers

Increasingly, much of the stress people in the United States experience is due to societal disorder and social pressures (Jenkins, 1982). Racial strife, violence, unemployment, hunger, and housing shortages among other problems, are examples of societal disorder" and are symptoms of the "sickness" of our society that contribute to the chronic anger that many people experience on a daily basis. The concept of social emotional process describes how a prolonged increase in social anxiety can result in a gradual lowering of the functional level of families (Nichols & Schwartz, 1995). Nichols & Schwartz (1995) cite the example of the high …

Conceptualizing Narrative Structures And Institutions: A Case Study Of Institutional Closings In Detroit, David R. Maines, Jeffery C. Bridger

Iowa Journal of Communication

We address the pervasive problem in narrative inquiry of linking personal to collective stories. Our approach is to distinguish stories as personal accounts from narrative structures that are cultural frames. We examined the relations between the two, and argue that narrative structures in many ways prefigure personal stories. We then present data pertaining to the closings of three Detroit institutions: Hudson's Department Store, the Fleetwood Cadillac Plant, and local parishes of the Detroit Archdiocese. With these data, we suggest that narrative structures also may well be linked to social institutions.

Front Matter - Table Of Contents

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Sexuality Education In The Schools : The Psycho-Social Development Of Relationships, Intimacy, And Sexuality In Children And Adolescents, Brian C. Poncy

Graduate Research Papers

This paper investigates the present state of sexuality education in the American school system. Within this examination, the paper looks to clarify several aspects of sexuality education in the United States. More specifically, the investigation seeks to identify current practices concerning the teaching of human sexuality, relationships, gender roles, and interpersonal communication. Further effort is given to understanding the roles played by the media, the community, the peer group, and the family within the intrapersonal, cognitive, and social-sexual development of the individual.

The Relationship Between Learning Style And Academic Achievement In A Classroom Utilizing The Learning Cycle Teaching Strategy, Linda Kay Graber

Graduate Research Papers

This study asked the question: Is the gain in student achievement, in a classroom using the learning cycle teaching strategy, together with Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, different among eighth grade science students in the four cognitive learning modes identified by Kolb?

The population for this study consisted of eighth grade students at Price Laboratory School on the Campus of the University of Northern Iowa, located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The study was a one-group pretest-posttest design in which gain in achievement was compared to learning style. Two student groups participated in a four week unit on the structure and function …

School Violence And Its Implications For Gifted Children, Nancy Schuldt

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this article is to review the research of school violence, the emotional needs of gifted and talented students, and the implications of school violence for gifted students. The violence which has occurred during the past two years in the United States, not only in the high schools but also the middle and elementary schools, has been widely publicized in current periodicals, television, radio and newspapers.

The questions I have addressed in this article include: What is violence? What is school violence? What does research say about the emotional needs of gifted students? What are the implications of …

A Look At Adoption Through Young Adult Fiction, Suzanne K. Duneman

Graduate Research Papers

This content analysis study examines adoptees and their families in nineteen young adult novels. An analysis was made of the adoptees sense of identity, the decision to search for their birth families, and their familial relationships. Sixty-three percent of the adoptees speculated about their birth families. Fifty-three percent of the characters did search for their birth families. Of that group, ninety percent had doubts during the search. In the conclusion of the novels sixty-three percent continued to have a relationship with both their adoptive and birth families, and thirty-seven percent maintained a relationship with only their adoptive family.

Literature Webs In The Literature Based Elementary Reading Program: An Annotated Bibliography, Nancy O'Keefe

Graduate Research Papers

Every classroom is a collection of unique individuals with varying abilities and interests. These differences are especially apparent in the elementary reading classroom. Though individual students are reading at many different levels it is still possible for them to work together and to learn from each other.

It is the purpose of this project to assist the third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers of Karen Acres Elementary School in Urbandale, Iowa through the development of multi-level reading webs. These webs may be used to differentiate instruction for those reading both above and below grade level without segregating students into separate …

Student Perceptions Of Distance Learning Using Webct, Nicole M. Weber

Graduate Research Papers

What is the perception of Web-based learning compared to that of learning in a traditional classroom by a group of students who have experienced a Web-based course?

The Impact Of Idea 1997 On Teachers' Beliefs And Collaborative Practices As Participants On Iep Teams At One Middle School, Mary Ann Walsh Schroeder

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the impact of the IDEA Amendments of 1997 on teachers' beliefs and collaborative practices as participants on IEP Teams at one middle school. Regular educators are now required to serve as members of IEP Teams for students identified with special needs, the majority of whom will now be served in the regular classroom. Collaboration, the process of interactions between regular and special educators to provide instruction in inclusive settings, was the practice investigated. This study examines laws and policies, teachers' beliefs, supports and barriers, collaborative practices, and evidence of change over …

Argument On Leisure And Spirituality: How Can The Line From The 46th Psalm, “Have Leisure And Know That I Am God,” Be Understood?, Tomoe Kitajima

Graduate Research Papers

The focus of the present study is to describe the relationship between leisure and spirituality in the process of reviewing related literature and speculating about the quote from the 46th Psalm, "Have leisure and know that I am God," using a philosophical method (an argument style specifically). Although the argument will be based on a line of Psalm from the Old Testament, the intention of this argument is not to critique or interpret the tradition of Biblical thoughts. This will entail looking at four key points: 1) mystical and transcendental experiences; 2) the contrast between the classic Greek concept of …

Juvenile Justice Professionals And The Goal Of Rehabilitation, Heather Bruch

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Numerous studies conducted over the past 20 years have suggested that support for rehabilitation in the criminal justice system has decreased. As a result of these findings, an increase in the examination of support for rehabilitation has occurred. According to much of the research on this issue, an important factor in the support of rehabilitation is the attitudes of criminal justice workers. The increasing prison populations are partially responsible for the heightened interest in this issue. It is believed by many that the attitudes of the workers in the criminal justice system have an effect on the success of the …

Dramaturgical Perspective In Modern Police Work : An Analysis Of Interviews And Observations, Michael P. Wagner

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Using a qualitative approach, I analyze data collected from two small Midwestern police departments. I gathered this data through a combination of methods: ethnographic interviewing, participant observation, and content analysis of police artifacts and documents. Most of the data derive from (1) my ethnographic interviews of 17 police officers and (2) my observations of officers during 16 "ride-along."

My analyses are guided by Goffman's (1959) dramaturgical analysis of face-to-face interaction, Manning's (1971; 1977) dramaturgical approach to policing, and Hunt and Manning's (1991) dramaturgical studies of police lying and the use of normal force (see also Hunt 1985). I rely most …

Gender, Religion, Causal Attributions, And Correctional Orientations Among Juvenile Justice Personnel, Amy Lynn Lyons

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the attitudes and orientations of juvenile justice personnel from four urban counties within the state of Iowa. The nonrandom sample used in the present study is secondary and originally collected for a larger study conducted by Leiber (1993). A closed-ended, self-report survey was administered to each respondent. The total sample for the present research is 263. The hypotheses guiding the present study are based on the assumption that women experience religion differently from men, and in turn, will blame society for youth crime and favor orientations supporting diversion.

Carol Gilligan (1982) …

Perceptions Of Iowa High School Principals On The Relationship Of Leadership, School Size, And Socioeconomic Level To School Culture, Kevin Wayne Fiene

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

American society is changing. Consequently, public schools are being called to change as well. Previous reform efforts have failed to bring about substantive change and improvement. Current reform efforts are calling for the changing of school culture. What factors influence school culture? What role does leadership, school size, and socioeconomic levels play in developing school culture?

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of leadership, school size, and socioeconomic level to school culture utilizing the Competing Values Framework. The Competing Values Framework provided four ideal culture types and eight leadership roles. Culture types included group, developmental, rational …

School Vision, Teacher Autonomy, School Climate, And Student Achievement In Elementary Schools, Connie J. Erpelding

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine within an elementary school context (a) the relationship among teachers' perceptions of their principal's school's vision, of their sense of autonomy, and of the school climate; and (b) how these core variables were associated with student achievement and student socioeconomic status. Leadership and effective schools literature link the visionary principal with a variety of school-related variables including those in this study.

Data were collected using three survey instruments and a questionnaire administered to fourth grade general education teachers in the sample. The principals of the schools included in this study were also …

The Relationship Between School-Based Extracurricular Activities And The At-Risk Behaviors Among Selected Northeast Iowa High School Students, Wende Gae Dawson

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between school-based extracurricular activities and at-risk behaviors among selected high school students in Northeast Iowa.

Virtual Sociology: Using Computers In Research, Diane K. Wysocki

Iowa Journal of Communication

This article explores my introduction into virtual research. In this article I discuss the ethical issues associated with conducting research online, such as whether or not informed consents are necessary, how to obtain them, what kinds of methods are ethical, how to handle data, and how to ensure respondents confidentially. Furthermore, I address both the positive and negative aspects of virtual research, some basic guidelines for institutional Review Boards, and the more current phenomena of online publishing in academic journals.