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Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Western News, August 31, 1989, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Haenicke scholarship among 14 Medallions awarded to outstanding freshmen this fall, Canadian-American relations to be colloquium focus, Updated Agency Resource Directory available, Title changes; faculty transfers; chairperson approved, Series to focus on 'Economics of Discrimination'

Western News, August 10, 1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Low appropriation increase forces University to face $1.4 million deficit, Vander Ploeg appointed new director of telecommunications, University receives record $9 million in grants

An Evaluation Of An Organizationally-Focused School-Based Delinquency Reduction Program: The Milwood Project, H. Preston Elrod

Dissertations

An extensive body of research exists which links various aspects of schooling to delinquency. Despite a small body of research suggesting that school-based delinquency reduction programs which employ democratic problem solving to alter the social organizational climates of schools are viable, few evaluations of such programs exist. The object of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a three year school-based delinquency reduction project designed to alter the social organizational structure of a public junior high school.

This research describes the development, implementation and evaluation of the project which was guided by three interrelated theoretical perspectives: (1) the role …

A Study Of The Relationship Of Class Size And Student Achievement On The Michigan Educational Assessment Program Fourth Grade Test, Ralph Burde

Dissertations

In this study the relationship and differences in student achievement and class size were investigated. The population of the study was the 111,199 students who completed the fall 1988 Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP, Michigan State Board of Education, 1988) fourth grade test. The MEAP is a criterion referenced test and is the state of Michigan's only achievement test.

The independent variable of the study was class size. The dependent variables of the study were student achievement as measured by the students' fall 1988 MEAP reading, mathematics, and combined reading and mathematics test scores. The hypothesis of the study, supported …

The Relationship Of Supplemental Instruction And Final Grades Of Students Enrolled In High-Risk Courses, Sally A. Pryor

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant relationship between attendance at Supplemental Instruction (SI) and final course grades. This study focused on a program where only undergraduate students led SI sessions. The subjects were 268 students enrolled in three high-risk science courses at a public university in the Midwest during fall semester 1988.

Three research hypotheses were investigated: (1) There is a significant relationship between level of attendance at SI and final course grades. (2) Students who attend SI earn significantly higher final course grades than students who do not attend SI. (3) There …

Variants On The Holiday Season, Gary Powell Nash

Masters Theses

Variants on the Holiday Season is a symphonic poem for full orchestra. This composition is based on five Christmas songs including three Medieval tunes, "Nowel Syng We Bothe Al and Son," "Riu Riu," and "Two French Dances," along with "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Deck the Halls." Most of the music is derived from motives, rhythms, harmonies, and interval patterns of the original songs. The harmonies employed are created from the modes of the original tunes. Although there is no program supporting this work, it is considered a symphonic poem because it incorporates chimes, glockenspiel and sleigh bells which …

Origins A Symphony For Orchestra, Thomas E. Haupt

Masters Theses

ORIGINS A SYMPHONY FOR ORCHESTRA is a three movement work composed entirely with an arbitrarily derived system of harmony and melody. AH three movements are based upon ten sovereign groupings of notes, each group displaying its own specific charactor of harmonic/melodic tension and release.

It is this harmonic structure, plus an Idee’ Fixe based on one of the groupings that binds the three movements together.

ORIGINS was written according to conventional symphonic outlines, but is strictly intended for an ensemble of high technical prowess. While it is a highly complex work, it is still designed to be relatively accessable to …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting July 28, 1989, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Nee Graduate Programs
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Fall Semester 1989 Tuition and Required Fee Schedule
• General Fund Operating Budget
• Construction Contract - Carl and Winifred Lee Honors College
• Remarks by the Provost
• Public comments
• Adjournment

Western News, July 27,1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Electronic conferencing system debuts at WMU before national introduction, Tuition increase on agenda for Friday Board meeting, Affirmative action programs reviewed during on-site audit

Making Story Time A Literacy Event For The Young Child, Beth Weir

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A literacy event is "any action or sequence, involving one or more persons in which the production and/or comprehension of print plays a role" (Anderson, Teale & Estrada, 1980). Story reading by a parent or teacher is perhaps the single most effective literacy event in a young child's experience with written language. Increasingly, reports suggest children's development of skills associated with ease of reading acquisition are enhanced with regular readings of storybooks both prior to and concomitant with formal instruction.

Language And Literacy: Mediating Reading Problems In A Communicative Context, Jim Waddell, Victoria J. Risko

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this paper is to describe how Trevor, a student who failed first grade because he didn't attain minimal reading skills according to school standards, learned to read during his second year in first grade. We believe that this description of Trevor's program will contribute to the understanding of how oral and written language impact on literacy attainment. We describe (a) Trevor's school history and problems that were noted in his folder prior to his second year in first grade, and (b) Trevor's success in learning to read and write in a program that encouraged his use of …

Reading Horizons Vol. 29, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 29, issue 4.

The Autobiography As Language Reflection, Kathy E. Danielson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Often, preservice teachers need to be reminded of the many influences on children's language. By reflecting on their own past language experiences, perhaps prospective teachers can better examine the important elements for language development.

Classroom Oral Reading And Its Needs Or Restraints, John H. Warren

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Few deny the beneficial effects of prose or poetry read aloud by a fluent and expressive reader; imparting reassurance, delivering entertainment, dispensing information or explanation, arousing curiosity, diffusing inspiration (Trelease, 1982). Apart from these advantages as we shall see, oral reading has the capability to engender literacy among individuals, more particularly our schoolchildren (Hoffman, 1982).

Western News, June 29,1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Board awards Haenicke 7 percent salary increase, Board grants promotions to 31 faculty members, Thompson named vice president for research

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting June 23, 1989, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Resolution re Emeritus Status
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Recommendation re Granting of Honorary Degrees
• Recommendation re Naming of Alumni Office
• Evaluation of President and Recommendation re Presidential Compensation
• Executive Session
• Ratification of Contract
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Political Activities Policy
• Organizational Change - College of General Studies
• Increase in Application Fee
• Increase in Late Application Fee
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Revised 1988/89 General Fund Operating Budget
• Continuation of 1988/89 Budget into 1989/90
• Fall Semester 1989 Tuition and Fee Schedule
• Acquisition of Property
• Bank One - Sturgis Agreement
• Construction Contract - Bernhard …

Western News, June 15, 1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: 11 West Michigan institutions reaffirm cooperation, Faculty can purchase microcomputers; software from Apple at 25 percent of discounted price, WESTOPS to showcase new downtown office, Miller Auditorium closed for asbestos removal, Carlson named visiting international scholar to University of Passau in West Germany, Disabled adults join ranks of volunteer corps

The Faculty Recognition Dinner 1989, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

The Faculty Recognition Dinner

Western Michigan University

June 2, 1989

• Robert H. Anderson
• William A. Burian
• Joseph M. Condic
• Tilman C. Cothran
• Francis William Doolittle
• William S. Fox
• Edward L. Galligan
• Gilda M. Greenberg
• Charles R. Helgesen
• Alfred K. Ho
• Andrew C. Nahm
• Emanuel Nodel
• Claude S. Phillips, Jr.
• Wayland P. Smith
• Anne O. Szalkowski
• Richard B. Valley
• Leo C. Vander Beek
• Jess M. Walker
• Robert J. Westley

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo 1989, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner Photo

June 2, 1989

Photographed:

• Joseph Condic
• Leo Vander Beek
• Andrew Nahm
• Richard Valley
• Wayland Smith
• Robert Anderson
• Anne Szalkowski
• Charles Helgesen
• Claude Phillips
• Robert Westley
• Jess Walker
• Edward Galligan
• Tilman Cothran
• Dorothy Bladt
• President Diether H. Haenicke
• Keith Bailey

Western News, June 1,1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Committee begins work on self-study report in preparation for 1991 reaccreditation review, Dennison reaffirms plans for race relations institute, WMU, Jordan College team up to build solar-powered car, Board tables reorganization in general studies, Adams selected for Korean exchange program, Academic Computer Center to administer Microcomputer Support Center in Bronco Mall

The Political Economy Of Welfare, Nancy E. Rose

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Analyses of the U.S. welfare system in the tradition of political economy have tended to focus on the maintenance of a pool of low-wage labor. This paper adds another dimension, as it incorporates government work programs into a theory of the functions and nature of the U.S. welfare system. Three dimensions of the welfare system are posited: (a) maintaining a stigma attached to welfare so that people are encouraged to hold low-wage jobs: (b) maintaining welfare payments at levels that do not interfere with the functioning of labor markets; and (c) basing government work programs on principles that are congruent …

The Effectiveness Of Three Study Aids As Measured By Immediate Examinations And Delayed Examinations, Yousef Abdulwahab Abuhmaidan

Dissertations

Two experiments were performed to examine the effectiveness of three study aids: (1) information maps, (2) behavioral objectives, and (3) the students' own strategies in reorganizing written material. A training workshop was given prior to the first experiment to teach the students appropriate skills to use to read research articles (e.g., generating and answering questions, filling out and generating information maps). Eighteen undergraduate students participated in the study. In the first experiment, students were randomly assigned to three groups. The researcher provided students with a research article every week for three weeks, together with either an information map, a set …

Community College Student Success: The Relationship Of Basic Skills, Study Habits, Age, And Gender To Academic Achievement, Margaret Lynn Hills Wonnacott

Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to determine if a relationship existed between reading ability, writing ability, math ability, study skills, age and gender and first semester grade point average of Glen Oaks Community College students. A secondary purpose was to determine if these variables acting together could predict student academic success.

The subjects were 374 full and part time students matriculating at Glen Oaks for the fall semester, 1988. The ASSET instrument was used to measure basic skills and study skills. It was administered at orientation sessions in August and September prior to enrollment. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients …

Book Review - Social Security After Fifty: Successes And Failures By Edward D. Berkowitz, James L. Wolk

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In many ways, this compact little book is a celebration. It is a celebration of the cornerstone of the American social welfare system, the Social Security Act of 1935. It is a celebration of the flexibility of an American political economic system that adjusts, somewhat reluctantly, to the vagaries of a capitalist system. Mainly, it is a celebration of the personality and work of three people instrumental in the development, implementation, and maintenance of an American institution; Wilbur Cohen, Robert Myers, and Robert Ball.

A Content Comparison Of Nontechnical Curricula For Engineers, Bryan Lynn Lundgren

Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to compare and critique the nontechnical curricula content of three Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) degree program model curricula. Curricula content areas that are similar were critiqued by employers of engineers. Model curricula importance and first year BSE nontechnical skill performance were rated by engineering supervisors. The main postulate is that differences among actual, model, and employer-desired nontechnical curricula are factors that may influence curricula change in engineering education. A secondary purpose was to investigate whether the proportion of nontechnical courses to total required courses in BSE college degree programs changed between 1975 …

The Use Of Musical Wind Instruments As An Expiratory Therapy With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients, Ellen R. Griggs Drane

Masters Theses

The use of musical wind instruments as an expiratory therapy with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients was compared to the traditional inspiratory treatment of the Inspiratory Muscle Trainer (IMT) during a twelve week pre - posttest study. Sixteen subjects, attending an out patient respiratory rehabilitation program, were randomly assigned to either the experimental group, receiving musical wind instruments, or the control group, receiving the IMT.

Measures for the study were: Forced Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV1) and Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) as measured by the Pulmonary Function Test; physical endurance measured by the Twelve Minute Walk Endurance Test; …

Western News, May 18,1989, Western Michigan University

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Story highlights: Blanchard names two new trustees; reappoints Edwards, Five academic units joined to form new School of Community Health Services, Senate approves revised policy on political activities, Chandler receives Liberty Bell Award

Western News, May 4, 1989, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University seeks $55 million in 'The Campaign for Excellence', Shaw design work goes to GR firm, Takeda receives honorary degree, Contracts awarded for summer work on residence halls; Elmwood Apartments, Abdul-Mutakallim named custodial manager, Dream becomes reality with Honors College building, Library/ computer center complex will be new campus focal point, Donewald named new men's basketball coach, DeVries named to planned giving position

Should I (Legally) Be My Brother's Keeper?, Gilbert Geis

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 27, 1987.