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Getting With Spaceship Earth, Noel Mcinnis

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The environment into which we are born remains invisible to us unless one of two things happens: 1) we leave it, or 2) it changes drastically. Quite recently, both of these things have happened to man-on-earth. Man left the earth long enough to look it over, and brought back pictures which make it difficult for us to overlook the planet as formerly. And those of us who stayed on earth discovered our planet by virtue of the fact that its feedback is doing things to us which were entirely unintended in our doings to it. The coincidence of these events …

Perspectives Vol. 3 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Respite For Sciolism, David S. Deshon

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Higher Education: Demand and Response, Edited by W. R . Niblett; San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1970. 267 pages.

The Roads And The Purposes, Edward H. Levi

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We are all concerned about the ability of education to respond to diverse tasks which have been placed upon it. These tasks require many more kinds of institutions, much more flexibility in the kinds of programs and means of instruction. Some means has to be found, and I do not believe the road of subsidy, by itself, will accomplish it, to encourage the appearance and participation of these institutions, and the trying out of programs and methods of instruction.

A more open system has risks, but it could reassemble to greater advantage the strength which is there. Obviously, such an …

Scholarship And Ideology, Bhikhu Parekh

Perspectives (1969-1979)

One of the most distinctive characteristics of the modern university is the tremendous emphasis placed on research, on "expanding the frontiers of knowledge." The faculty has argued, and the university authorities have in many cases accepted, that research is the only worth-while academic activity and that the university largely exists simply to promote it. In its name the faculty has sometimes even ignored, with official connivance, many of its academic obligations. Although, from the standpoint of the university, teaching is more important, research has become a new industry, a new god whose directives, it is believed, only the illiterate could …

Learning To Swim, Richard R. Williams

Perspectives (1969-1979)

For, regardless of the current flurry of excitement concerning new directions in teaching and learning, I feel that we are still adrift and perilously off course when it comes to assessing what is in our best interest. Almost everyone nowadays is talking about educational reforms and there is a good deal of agreement that change must be in the direction of fostering more humanistic, life-enhancing processes. More often than not, however, what we term bold new ventures into self-discovery, enhancement of growth, or whatever phrase suits our taste, are actually old and quite stale wines in new wineskins. An old …

Perspectives Vol. 3 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Perspectives Vol. 2 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1971-72, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

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Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1971, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 15
  • February 19
  • March 19
  • April 16
  • May 21
  • June 11
  • August 13
  • September 17
  • October 22
  • November 19
  • December 17
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April, 1971
  • August, 1971
  • December, 1971
• INDEX

Turbidity Reductions By Enzymatic Hydrolysis, John Nowak

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Turbidity has long been a problem to the paper industry. In the past, it has been mainly associated with secondary fiber mills, among others. However, with the recent increase in the price of virgin pulp, other mills are seriously considering secondary fiber as a substitute for virgin pulp. Therefore, turbidity may become a problem to a larger number of mills in the future. Turbidity arises when starch and a filler are sheared together in a system. It has been noted in the literature that hypochlorite-oxidized starch produces the greatest turbidity phenomenon.

This project assumed that the size of the starch …

Stuttering Tremor; An Exploration Of Methodologies For Recording And Analysis, James J. Welsh

Masters Theses

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A Study Of Factors Related To Student Ratings Of College Instructors, Ronald M. Wolthuis

Dissertations

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The Application And Refinement Of Thin Layer Chromatographic Procedures In Analyzing The Ribonucleic Acids Present During The Morphological Development Of Two Varieties Of Avena Sativa L., Dorothy Anne Hackett

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study To Determine Methods Of Evaluating Achievement Of Business Communications Students And Predicting Success Of These Students, Susanne Bellaire Philp

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Extraneous Auditory Stimulation On Visual Choice Reaction Time, William J. Wenger

Masters Theses

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An Evaluation Of Student Attitudes In The Audio-Tutorial Biological Science Program At Western Michigan University And How They Are Reflected In Student Achievement Versus Time Spent In Laboratory, Dorothy Anne Hackett

Masters Theses

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A Comparative Analysis Of The Language Of Mentally Retarded And Non-Retarded Children, Hartmut Günther

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Utility Of Social Psychological Variables As Predictors Of Educational Aspirations, Robert W. Bilby

Masters Theses

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Reading Horizons Vol. 11, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 11, issue 1.

Listening Skills: Caught Or Taught?, Karen L. Casebeer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Sick And Tired, Louis Foley

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Recently one of our sprightliest columnists wrote an entertaining article on things that people were "sick and tired" of hearing. For a final example, as a sort of climax, he said: "I am sick and tired of the attempt to eliminate the word 'now' from the English language. On radio, on television, and in the press there seems to be a conspiracy to wipe out this wonderfully short and to-the-point word meaning 'at this very instant.' The most common substitute is the word 'presently,' which doesn't even mean 'now,' but 'soon,' as everybody with a second-grade education used to know. …

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Hall, Mary Anne. 1970. Teaching Reading As a Language Experience

Faculty Publications 1968-69, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1968-69 is the seventh major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University . These included, respectively, materials that were published between July 1, 1957 and June 30, 1961; July 1, 1961 and June 30, 1963; July 1, 1963 and June 30, 1965; July 1, 1965 and June 30, 1966; July 1, 1966 and June 30, 1967; and July 1, 1967 and June 30, 1968 . This compilation is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues .

The Relationship Of Three Tests Of Visual Synthesis To Lipreading Ability In A Hearing-Impaired Sample, Nicki M. Mulford

Masters Theses

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A Study Of The Influence Of Dogmatism On Student Perception Of Teacher Qualities, Ann Elizabeth Laffan

Masters Theses

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Perceived Behavioral Changes In First-Line Supervisors Who Participated In A Basic Management Program, Ralph C. Skrocki

Dissertations

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Peter The Venerable's Concept Of Friendship, James B. Bettendorf

Masters Theses

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The Justification Of Jehan Petit: A Fifteenth-Century Attempt To Justify Tyrannicide, John C. Parsons

Masters Theses

The Justification of Jehan Petit was composed as an attempt to explain the murder in 1407 of Louis, duke of Orleans, by his cousin John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy. The murder was politically necessary for John to be able to dominate the French government while the king, Charles VI, was mad.

Petit attempted to prove that the duke of Orleans had been a tyrant, and that the murder was justifiable as tyrannicide. The validity of Petit’s theory demanded that he be able to prove Louis' tyranny. In so doing, he departed radically from the medieval concept of a tyrant …

Personality Factors In Mothers As Related To Problem Behavior In Children, Josephine H. Veldman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.