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Medievalist Feminists In The Academy, Judith Bennett, Elizabeth Robertson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

P.J.P. Goldberg, Ed., Woman Is A Worthy Wight: Women In English Society, C. 1200-1500. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992, Ruth Mazzo Karras

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Glenda Mcleod, Virtue And Venom: Catalogs Of Women From Antiquity To The Renaissance. The University Of Michigan Press, 1991, Pamela Benson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No.14 1992

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Western News, August 20, 1992, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Women's Center undergoes restructuring, Warfield to be recommended in Division of Minority Affairs, Cash gifts total more than $6 million in '91-'92, Touchdown Club to meet, 20 faculty members to start academic year with promotions

Western News, August 6, 1992, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Grants top $13 million during eighth year of record growth, Board approves honorary degree for Jurgen Schneider, Community sees preliminary research park plan, Summer enrollment declines both on and of campus

Factors Influencing Persistence Of Adult Students In High School Completion Programs, Joan E. Garbarino

Dissertations

This research was conducted to contrast adult persisters' and dropouts' perceptions of the importance of institutional, situational, and dispositional barriers to high school completion.

Institutional factors included staff support, curriculum , student services, and logistical considerations. Situational factors were family and friend support, time, employment, and health. Dispositional factors included attitudes toward education, academic preparedness plus expectations, and satisfaction.

Completers who graduated and noncompleters who dropped out before graduation were surveyed. Statistical analysis allowed the researcher to test differences between the perceptions of persisters and dropouts in regard to eleven factors found in the three major barriers. It also revealed …

The Diffusion Of Management Practices In The United States, Fumie Murase

Masters Theses

The study of diffusion of Japanese management practices in the United States is required by growing Japanese investment in the United States and the need of United States manufacturing to become more efficient. This thesis is based on a qualitative analysis of five case studies of automobile assembly plants in the United States utilizing cultural diffusion theory.

Most of Japanese production practices and some of their labor management policies were originally transferred to Japan from the United States. After being modified in Japan some of these policies are coming back to the United States with the transplants. Other Japanese management …

The Effects Of Public-Posted Feedback On The Use Of A Photocopy Machine By Faculty In An Academic Department, Shijing Hu

Masters Theses

This study assessed the effects of a public-posting intervention on photocopy machine use by faculty members in an academic department. Public posting included posting of a chart that displayed number of copies made each week by individual faculty members along with the average cumulative rate of copying for previous weeks for each person. The intervention was applied in an A-B-A reversal design where data were collected prior to the intervention under usual conditions (A), during public posting (B), and after the public posting intervention was removed and usual conditions were restored (A). The results indicated that: (1) number of copies …

Effects Of Western Education On Employees' Participation And Job Satisfaction In Saudi Arabian Industries, Abdulrahman Y. Al-Selaim

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what degree Western education and Saudi Arabian employees' degree of participation in quality circle programs influences their job satisfaction. These variables were investigated using a survey administered to 150 Saudi Arabian employees working in the production department of a Saudi Arabian company. The Questionnaire of Participation and Satisfaction (QPS) instrument that was used in this investigation is a 20-item questionnaire; items 1-13 were developed by the researcher, and items 14-20 were developed by Abbas (1985). The questionnaire consisted of three components designed to determine: where employees were educated, as well as …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting July 31, 1992, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Motion
• Remarks by the President
• Fall Semester 1992 Tuition Schedule
• Revised Campus III Tuition Rate
• Recommendation to Confer Honorary Degree
• Academic and Student Affairs Committee Recommendations
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• HIV Policy (Revision of University AIDS Policy)
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Presidential Deferred Compensation Agreement
• Michigan Association of Boards (MAGB) Update
• Remarks by the Provost
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, June 18, 1992, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Haenicke extends deadline for unions, 'reluctantly' imposes hiring freeze, Nearly 3,200 to receive degrees at commencement; Wolpe to be presented with honorary doctorate, Jones appointed as director of the annual fund, WMU engineer uses math modeling techniques to project spread of AIDS, Cudney co-writes book on self-defeating behaviors, Schmidt wins Fulbright Scholar Award to study mountain region in north central Argentina, Weaver contributes to new volume on 'whole language'

Looking Out For Low-Achieving Readers, Terrell A. Young, Deanne Mccullough

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article explores some practical, research based principles for teachers to use in maximizing the learning of low-achieving readers, those students who aren't yet reading at their potential, in the regular classroom.

Professional Book Review, Mary E. Hauser

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Early Literacy: A Constructivist Foundation for Whole Language. C. Kamii, M. Manning, and G. Manning, Editors. 1991.

Reading Horizons Vol. 32, No. 5

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons, volume 32, issue 5.

Including All Students Within A Community Of Learners, Curt Dudley-Marling, Susan Stires

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One of the inevitable consequences of schooling is this: a substantial number of children will experience some failure during their educational careers. In general, students fail when they are unable to learn the skills their teachers think they should learn, at the time the teachers think they should. We believe that efforts to reduce school failure must turn away from trying to fix students. Instead teachers should concentrate on transforming their classrooms to make them places which are more congenial to the linguistic, cultural, social, and intellectual backgrounds students bring to school. In short, teachers need to create a community …

Literature Groups And Literature Logs: Responding To Literature In A Community Of Readers, Kathy Everts Danielson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Literature discussion groups as a vehicle for discussing and responding to literature have recently received much attention as an alternative to basal reading groups. Recent research advocates this type of grouping.

A Study Of Cooperative Learning At The High School Level, Lisabeth S. Margulus

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to answer the following research questions:

1. Which teacher skills are necessary to implement effective teamwork in a classroom?

2. What kind of learning environment is optimal for implementing effective teamwork in a classroom?

3. In classrooms using teamwork, does greater student achievement occur than in classrooms not using teamwork?

The study outlined the specific teacher skills and described the optimal learning environment for implementing cooperative strategies in high school classrooms. To address the third question , an experimental study was conducted in which sixty-four 10th-,11th-, and 12th-grade Business Applications and Technology students in …

The Effect Of Associative Distance On The Formation Of Transitive Relations, Robert G. Brown Jr.

Dissertations

Three children, aged eight to eleven years, were taught a series of conditional discriminations using two classes of 26 abstract visual stimuli. The conditional relations were ordered such that the correct comparison stimuli of one relation served as the sample stimuli for the next relation. This allowed for the formation of a series of derived relations (both transitive and equivalence) that differed in terms of the number of intervening nodes. At regular intervals, the subjects' performances on the different transitive relations were tested using unreinforced probe trials.

All three subjects made virtually no errors on transitive relations containing up to …

The Extent To Which The Career Guidance And Counseling Component Is Addressed In The Administration Of Tech Prep Programs, Linda Joan Kwasny

Dissertations

This study examined the career guidance and counseling component of tech prep projects that were being planned and implemented in Michigan during the 1990-91 school year. A survey was conducted of all eleven consortia operating funded tech prep projects to determine the involvement of secondary and post-secondary guidance professionals in tech prep planning, the extent of articulation of guidance services for regular and special populations tech prep students, and the nature and extent of the career guidance and counseling programs that were being planned for regular and special populations students.

The findings from this study indicate that for secondary and …

The Effects Of The Caribbean Basin Initiative On Jamaica's Trade, Arlene Hendricks

Honors Theses

This paper will analyze the export-led model for development by looking at the intended versus the actual results of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) as it relates to the Caribbean country of Jamaica. The CBI was passed into law by the U.S. Congress under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) in 1983. An exploration is made of the circumstances leading to the CBI, the main precepts and legislation of the CBI, its implementation and its effects. This paper also discusses the amendment to the CBERA, known as CBI II, which was passed into law effective October 1,1990. There will …

The Suburban Rice Farmers: Economic And Cultural Change In Japan, Makoto Chiwaki

Masters Theses

The world economic situation is forcing the Japanese government to initiate policies designed to make its rice farming industry more competitive on the world market. These new policies, along with the growth of Japan's urban areas, are causing certain stresses on the cultural institution called bunke among the part-time rice farmers in the Kaizuka region of Chiba City, Japan.

An ethnographic study of these farmers reveals that the farmers of the Kaizuka region have responded to recent changes differently from the farmers of other regions because of their cultural institutions and traditions.

Self-Efficacy And Academic Success Of Integrated And Segregated Emotionally Impaired Adolescents, Jerry William Davisson

Dissertations

In this study, levels of self-efficacy and levels of academic success of emotionally impaired adolescents in both integrated and segregated settings were analyzed. The data were analyzed to determine if placement setting (integrated or segregated) impact: self-efficiency levels, academic success levels, and the relationship between self-efficiency and academic success.

Subjects were selected from two junior high schools within Macomb County, Michigan. The integrated junior high educated emotionally impaired students with nonimpaired students and the segregated junior high educated emotionally impaired students with only other emotionally impaired students. Eleven students from the integrated junior high and 28 students from the segregated …

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo 1992, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo

May 29, 1992

Photographed:

• Robert Palmatier
• Roy Beck
• Kenneth Dickie
• H. Nicholas Hamner
• David Chaplin
• Benjamin Ebling
• Edward Heinig
• John Woods
• Harold Ray
• Milton Cudney
• John Sheppard
• Jack Wood
• Martin Ross
• Robert Boughner
• Barbara Rider
• Patricia Lemanski
• Paule Miller
• Eugene Bernstein
• Ruth Heinig
• Jean Smith
• Marilynn Heim
• Doris Smith
• Daniel Hendriksen
• Beverlee White
• President Diether Haenicke
• Alfred Balkin

The Faculty Recognition Dinner 1992, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

The Faculty Recognition Dinner

May 29, 1992

Honored Guests:

• Phillip Adams
• Alfred Balkin
• Roy Beck
• Eugene Bernstein
• Robert Boughner
• R. Claire Callan
• David Chaplin
• J. Patrick Clysdale
• Milton Cudney
• Kenneth Dickie
• Benjamin Ebling
• Val Eichenlaub
• Mary Frances Fenton
• Ronald Flaspohler
• Elizabeth Garland
• Norman Greenberg
• H. Nicholas Hamner
• Nita Hardie
• Marilynn Heim
• Ruth Heinig
• Daniel Hendriksen
• Patricia Klein
• Patricia Lemanski
• Paule Miller
• James Nadonly
• Robert Palmatier
• Eugene Paulson
• Harold Ray
• Barbara Rider
• Geraldine Riley
• Martin Ross
• Robert Sechler
• John Sheppard
• Gregory Sheridan
• Doris Smith
• Jean Smith
• George Stegman
• Roger Urich
• Dale Westphal
• Beverlee White
• Jack Wood
• John Woods
• David Zinn

Western News, May 21,1992, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Students win awards to conduct research with mentors, Douma to be recommended for post in Graduate College, New APA leadership will be introduced at May 22 meeting, University joins partnership in Battle Creek to assist with education reform movement, Reish to be named interim dean of honors college as Gabelnick accepts new post in California, Second edition of book by Northouses focuses on importance of communication in health care, Stoltman receives national recognition for contributions to educational video series

Western News, May 7,1992, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Congress marks 30 years of gathering medieval scholars, Acclaimed authors to present public readings at May 7-9 Third Coast Writers' Conference, Wolpe to receive honorary degree, Bid categories totaling nearly $15 million for recreation; athletics facilities approved by board; IS-month river education project will culminate with congress for students from 13 high schools, WMUK reaches $25,000 goal in first spring fund-raiser

Lying: A Failure Of Autonomy And Self-Respect, Jane Zembaty

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - March 19, 1992.

27th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 7-10, 1992).