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Western News, February 13, 1986, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Denenfeld announces plans to retire in January 1987, Haenicke reacts to Blue Ribbon Task Force report; calls for groups to 'forge a common consensus', Profession to be 'built up' during Engineers Week, 45 receive awards from Faculty Research and Creative Activities Fund, Future of health; human services conference to focus on rehabilitation, disabilities

Western News, February 6, 1986, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: King speech to highlight Black History Month events, New institutes established in mechanical engineering, Haenicke finds Blanchard tuition plan 'intriguing', Blood pressure screening; measles vaccinations offered free, China; Russia are destinations for travel programs, Editor of Cincinnati Enquirer to speak

The Westerner Vol. 6 No. 4, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• $27.1 million approved for new construction • Haenicke makes four commitments during his inauguration speech • Classes toward bachelor's degree offered at General Motors plant • Groundwater, horticulture to be focus of new centers • Commerce department funds Technology Transfer Network • Financial aid available to nontraditional students • Haenicke says computers won't replace people • Soviet Union's foreign policy is based -on defensive considerations • Malaysia trip successful • Who says academics and athletics don't mix? • New program helps undecided students explore their academic and career options • Kayla Skelly runs wild with success in 1985 • …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Annual Meeting January 24, 1986, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• President's Remarks
• Resolution re Rededication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Room
• Election of Officers
• Western Michigan University Board of Trustees Meeting Dates for 1986
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Academic Personnel Report
• Recommendation re Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• Recommendation re Addition to Code of Student Life
• Board Committee Reports
• College of Business Management-499 Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, January 23, 1986, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Area policy makers; administrators to discuss AIDS, Western joins consortium to aid business; industry, Literary critic to be visiting scholar, Western among 60 selected for NEH workshop, Health care costs have quadrupled in 10 years, City growth may be temporary, Reunion planned for 1975-76 basketball team

Western News, January 16, 1986, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Haenicke pledges support of coalition, Several events planned in observance of holiday, Senate approves creation of new council; Haenicke praises bipartisan support for construction projects, Employee Health Risk Survey to be distributed, Jones to speak on being a black artist in America, Fringe benefits total almost 30 percent of pay

19-Archaeological Survey Of The I-75nb Welcome Center, Moran Township, Mackinac County, Michigan, William M. Cremin

Archaeological Technical Reports

With the execution of a Cultural Resource Investigation work authorization (#4-86/87) under contract #85-1115 (MDOS ER #9262) betveen the MDOT, the MDOS, and WMU, authorizing a Phase I archaeological survey of the I-75NB Welcome Center in Moran Township, Mackinac County, Michigan, archaeologists undertook a systematic and intensive site location survey of the project area on 12-13 Oct 86.

Employing reconnaissance and shovel testing procedures, the survey team relocated and confirmed the existence of a site(s) in the eastern portion of the project and extending into the adjoining property of the Straits State Park. Although lithic debris and pieces of FRC …

The Reading Conference: Questions, Information, Activities And Feedback, Elene S. Demos

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Just as a lesson can fail because of poor planning, so can a conference. To avoid this, the teacher must make some preliminary decisions. The teacher must first decide the purpose of the conference. According to Hunter (1976), there are three types of conferences and each type serves a different purpose. These types include giving information, receiving information and problem solving. We are now ready to enter the first phase of the conference.

Reading Horizons Vol. 26, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 26, issue 2.

Bulletin Western Michigan University: The Graduate Catalog 1986-1988, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

Section I: General Policies and Procedures
Section II: Master's Degree Programs and Requirements
Section III: Specialist Degree Programs and Requirements
Section IV: Doctoral Degree Programs and Requirements
Section V: Description of Graduate Courses
Section VI: The Graduate Faculty

Literary Books Make The Difference In Teaching The Esl Student, Mary H. Appleberry

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Eager, bright eyed children gather close around the teacher's chair, where she holds several enticing books. In this multiethnic class she makes very sure that Juanita, Pablo, and Kim, who know little English, are seated close to her where they can point to pictures and hear her words clearly. The teacher begins with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the children giggling as he eats his way through "One red apple", "Two yellow pears", etc. While the story is reread the children join in chorus as different pupils point to the pictures. The teacher continues with Teddy Bears One to Ten, Ape …

Using Language To Gain Insight Into Literacy Learning, Dora L. Bailey, Richard T. Vacca

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A "language story" captures children's interactions with their immediate surroundings--the world about them--in such a way that it reflects how children develop the expectation that oral or written language is meaningful. As teachers of reading and writing we can use children's language stories as a tool to gain insights into processes related to literacy learning.

Teacher Expectation: Implications For Achievement, Dan T. Ouzts

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One variable that has often been cited for high achievement in school is that of high expectations for learning. While most teachers would agree that some type of expectation, positive or negative, is placed upon every student in every classroom, how one arrives at these expect at ions varies as much as the effect it has upon the student. The idea that we as classroom teachers may have different expectations for students in our classrooms could be related to the different types of interactions that are a daily part of the classroom.

What, then, are the characteristics of the classroom …

Minutes Of The Faculty Senate Councils, 1986-87, Wmu Faculty Senate

Minutes of the WMU Faculty Senate Councils

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1986-87, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Attitudes Of Michigan School Board Presidents Toward Superintendents' Political And Policy Leadership In Third And Fourth Class School Districts, Jon Bradley Johnson

Dissertations

The question of whether the school board or the superintendent really governs public schools continues to appear in the literature. An issue related to this question is the amount of political and policy leadership exercised by superintendents.

The purpose of this study was to make a beginning inquiry into current expectations for superintendent political and policy leadership by school board presidents.

Five hypotheses were identified involving variables of political and policy leadership, intraboard cohesion, and size of the district.

The research included requesting data from school board presidents of 513 third and fourth class school districts in Michigan. Eventually 396 …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting December 20, 1985, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• President's Remarks
• Report on Visit to Malaysia
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Recommendation re Reinvestment of Unitrust and Pooled Income Funds
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Board Committee Reports
• School of Music Report
• Report of Fine Arts Complex Landscaping Project
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, December 12, 1985, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: DMB awards funds for two centers, 1,280 degrees to be conferred at commencement, New programs will require new funds, Haenicke tells Faculty Senate, Children's Christmas favorite has unusual history, Five renewal grants top $50,000 in report to Board, Munsterman; Oxhandler appointed to new positions

25 Year Club: Fourth Annual Banquet, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club

Fourth Annual Banquet

December 4, 1985

The Westerner Vol. 6 No. 3, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Halley's comet expected to thrill audiences less than it did the last time around • Project will help children with communication disorders • Board seeks state funds for business college, library • A television visit with artist-entrepreneur Gwen Frostic • President Haenicke hoping to bolster academic excellence at Western • Professor emeritus of history honored on ninety-fifth birthday • Sports • 1985 Development Fund gifts increase 45 percent over last year • WMU Foundation assets total more than $7.7 million • Dear WMU Alumni: • Career assessment offered • Alumnotes

Inhibition Of Transfer Between The Cerebral Hemispheres: A Possible Neuropsychological Mechanism For Some Instances Of Perceptual Defense, Sean R. Wierenga

Masters Theses

The present study investigated the role of inhibition of transfer between the cerebral hemispheres in the manifestation of perceptual defense. Paired contributions of affectively positive and negative pictures were tachistoscopically presented to 25 subjects who were asked to verbally rate the overall affective value of each presentation. Perceptual defense would be indicated if the presentation was rated as being significantly more positive when the left hemisphere viewed a negative picture than the reverse condition. This situation would indicate the inhibition of transfer of negative information from the right hemisphere to the left where the input could be vocalized. Rather than …

The Design And Construction Of Microprocessor-Computer Controlled Rapid Scanning Fiberoptic Spectrophotometer, Kathleen Marie Tobin

Masters Theses

Conventional spectrophometers require the transfer of a sample to a cuvette for obtaining spectra. The measurement of absorbance in situ can be accomplished using a fiber optic probe which can be placed directly in the sample. The fiber optic probe also minimizes environmental factors such as thermal or vibrational which may affect the absorbing species. A rapid scanning speed allows for essentially simultaneous wavelength monitoring.

The effect of coupling a rapid scanning spectrophotometer with a fiber optic probe provides for an extremely versatile system. When used in comjunction with a microprocessor or computer, this approach offers advantages such as data …

Informal Helping Networks And Social Service Changes: A Community Perspective, Charles Hoch, George Hemmens, Rojean Madsen, Wim Wiewel

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Interviews with 112 household respondents and 58 social service agency directors in three ethnically and racially distinct Chicago neighborhoods provided a comprehensive assessment of -- household helping relationships in a community context. Reliance on informal helping greatly exceeded use of formal agencies at the household level. Households were twice as likely to give help as receive it in a complex variety of ways, while agencies struggled to add new functional programs in a time of retrenchment. What households gave and got did not overlap with agency programs in any coherent way. Further, household respondents and agency directors disagreed in their …

The Implementation Of Deterrence: A Multi-Approach Assessment Of The Impact Of Recent Changes In Anti-Drunk Driving Legislation On Reducing Alcohol-Involved Fatalities, Josef R. Soper

Dissertations

The objective of this study is to determine if anti-drunk driving legislation, enacted between January 1979 and December 1983, has significantly reduced the number of alcohol-involved traffic fatalities.

At the macro-level, 60 consecutive months of alcohol-involved fatality data were requested from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Sixteen states supplied the requested data. The Box-Jenkins technique for interrupted time-series analysis was used to determine if a change in the state's drunk driving law impacted the frequency of alcohol-involved fatalities in that state. Results are discussed in relation to the statewide impact of anti-drunk driver legislation.

At the micro-level, …

Addressing Socio-Legal Problems: A Unifying Perspective For Social Workers, Raymond Albert

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Problems where social work and the law overlap have consistently challenged social work professionals, and the challenges promise to continue. The overlap exposes important interdisciplinary issues, which are best addressed when certain conditions are met. The article describes these conditions within the context of a perspective that underlines the interaction between the two fields and structures the professional's approach to these interdisciplinary problems.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Church Sponsored K-12 Education And Church Membership In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Warren Earl Minder

Dissertations

Church growth continues to be a concern for religious sects. Writers on church growth hold that all the various ministries of the church must assist the church in accomplishing church growth.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not persons who had been students in the Adventist school system had greater probability of joining the church and staying in the church than those who did not attend an Adventist school but were from homes where at least one parent was a Seventh-day Adventist.

There were two dependent variables in the study: initial baptism to join the church …

An Exploratory Study Of The Relationship Between Moral Development And Communication In Small Groups, Beth Hartman Ellis

Masters Theses

This study explored the differences in communication between groups comprised of persons in different stages of moral development. Hypotheses were developed related to the task dimension and the process dimension of group discussions. These hypotheses were based on the appropriateness of the content of the communication in the groups to stages with in Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Trends in the direction of the hypotheses were found in analyses of utterances of the individuals in the group.

A Bormannean Fantasy Theme Analysis Of “The Big Book" Of Alcoholics Anonymous, Leigh Arden Ford

Masters Theses

Utilizing Bormannean fantasy theme analysis, this study examined the rhetoric of "The Big Book", the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous. Three dominant rhetorical visions were found corresponding to Cragan and Shield's conception of rhetorical visions as social, pragmatic and righteous at the metalevel. These rhetorical visions were labeled The Rich Man, Poor Man Vision (social), The Greater Power Vision (righteous), and The Solution Vision (pragmatic). The accompanying fantasy themes of dramatis personae, setting, plotline and sanctioning agent were delineated. The implications of this study for substance abuse therapists and AA members were examined and further research was suggested.

Mediation: Fact Or Fiction; Force Or Finesse? A Synopsis Of Case Studies, Charles N. Carpenter

Masters Theses

The primary objective of this study was to observe a state mediator in his role during public sector contract negotiations and relate these observations to the tenets of conflict management and power sources.

Conclusions are drawn relative to the impact of the mediation process on collective bargaining.

The Social Support Networks Of Indochinese Refugees, Peter J. Pecora, Mark W. Fraser

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Refugee sponsors and social service staff of agencies serving Indochinese refugees in Utah were surveyed to determine the relationship between social support and economic self-sufficiency among refugees. Agency staff and refugee sponsors rated contacts by family, work, school, and sponsors who are family members as most useful, with differences emerging between the two groups regarding other sources of social support. Respondents who had been refugees rated some forms of social support higher than nonrefugee respondents. Mutual Assistance Associations were seen as underutilized resources for helping Indochinese refugees build and maintain networks of social support.