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The Graduate College Bulletin: 1977-1978, 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

Learning Basic (Reading) Skills K-12, Denny T. Wolfe Jr.

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Seldom in the history of American education has an issue received more public attention than the reading question is receiving today. Such an abiding concern about a basic skill is almost ironic in view of the fact that the last several decades have brought a flood of "innovations" in curriculum design and approaches to instruction. Prominent figures such as John Holt, Herbert Kohl, Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner, William Glasser, Ivan Illich, Carl Rogers, Alvin Toffler, and many more have called continually for radical school reform. "Relevance" and "change" have been by-words in virtually every piece of recent literature pertaining to …

The Effect Of Deletion Produced Syntactic Structures On Reading Comprehension, Vivian E. Theberge, Carl Braun

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Professional Concerns: English For Despisers, R. Baird Shuman, Ruth Van Arsdale

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Do some of your students view the book as enemy? Are some of your students completely turned off by English? Do you have trouble getting some of your students to read?

Faculty Recognition Dinner 1977, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Faculty Recognition Dinner

April 1, 1977

Honored Retirees:

• Henry J. Beukema
• Charles A. Blagdon
• Victor Coutant
• Raymond C. Deur
• Marcella S. Faustman
• Frances S. Hardin
• Harry S. Hefner
• Eleanore C. Linden
• Gerald C. Martin

Avoiding Dangers In The Secondary Reading Program: The Principal's Role, George M. Usova

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

With the increasing emphasis upon reading instruction on the secondary level, the total school faculty and principal must be wary of the many pitfalls that can doom the program to failure.

Children's Literature And The Classroom Teacher, Lucetta A. Johnson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The elementary teacher may well ask why teach children's literature when each day's schedule is already crowded with mathematics, reading, spelling, English, science, social studies, physical education, art, music, values, career awareness, and all subjects that come under these broad headings. This article will suggest some ways that children's literature can be used in the elementary curriculum to achieve reading goals that improve on traditional reading programs. Children's literature in no way replaces these programs, rather, it extends and enriches the reading curriculum while encouraging positive reading attitudes.

New Materials, Sandra Ahern

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Generalization Of Question-Asking From A Training Situation To A Child's Natural Environment, Joan J. Andress

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Comstock High School Comstock Public Schools Major Internship, David F. Smith

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Based On The Opinions Of The Graduating Classes Of 1970-1972 From The Springfield Public School System, Jo Ann Frank

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Women Artists: For Children, Debbie Small

Honors Theses

"Women Artists: for Children" is a collection of slides, tapes and life-sized dolls that introduces women in the visual arts to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. The body of this paper presents the four sets of narratives that accompany the individual slide series; "Women Painters", "Women Fiber Artists", "Women Sculptors", and "Women Printmakers". It also includes a discussion of how and why the project came about, a general introduction to the styles and themes of the artists it presents and a brief analysis of its experimental exposure in the classroom.

A Review On The History And Application Of Videotape Self-Confrontation In Therapy And Human Relations Training, Gerald F. Skillings

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Aspects Of Southwest Michigan Opilionids, Wolfgang C. Schroeter

Masters Theses

Introduction

Opilionids (Arachnida: Opiliones) are arachnids that have such descriptive common names as harvestmen or daddy longlegs. In the summer and early autumn opilionids become a conspicuous component of the invertebrate fauna; however, as common as these animals are, little attention has been paid to their behavior. Most published research on opilionids deals with their taxonomy.

The intraspecific interactions of opilionids is a significant area or ethology that needs careful examination. Intraspecific interactions fall into three categories reproductive, aggressive, and cooperative behaviors. A knowledge of the reproductive behavior of opilionids is essential for a complete picture or the evolution of …

Western News, March 31, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Last Forum Next Thursday, Teacher Educators Meet Here, Engineering Seeks Women Students, Wind; Percussion Conference Friday, Ag Research Specialist Visits, Title IX Workshop April 7, Gerontology Talks Today, Warn Employees to Use Homeowner's Policy for Items, Sex; Sexuality Series Concludes, WMU Instructional Film Gets Widespread Acceptance, Chimp Talk Lecture Topic

Western News, March 24, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Chimp Talk Lecture Topic, Language Tourney Saturday, UT Stages New Play, Grant Five Emeritus Status, Trustees Approve Statement of Principles on Obscenity, Zupko Composition Premieres Monday, Offer Summer Study in England

Western News, March 17, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Black Student Group Program Here Saturday, University; AAUP Reach Agreement on Faculty Senate, List Summer Federal Jobs, Rood Memorial Services Sunday, International Week on Campus, Gerontology Has Series, Computer Scheduler Designed Here Gets Worldwide Notice, KSO Features Cellist Starker, WMU Faculty Take Active Part in Academy Program, Changing Sex Roles Talk Friday

Faculty Publications 1975-76, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1975-76 is the fourteenth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

A Disarmed World: Problems In Imaging The Future, Elise Boulding

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

One of the major handicaps to scholars, activists and would-be policy makers associated with the post-World War II peace research and peace action movements has been the inability to construct coherent and believable images of a post military industrial United States society. Even at the height of the economics of disarmament studies in the 1960s the most that economists could demonstrate was that disarmament could take place without severe economic dislocations, and that resources released from arms could be used for improving the global standard of living. The new peace research movement was also producing books in the sixties showing …

A Comparison Of Defense And Welfare Spending In The United States And The United Kingdom, 1946-1976, James L. Clayton

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

One of the most important and absorbing questions of our time is whether governments should extend or retrench their efforts toward assisting people who do not seem to be able to make it on their own. Those who believe that governments should expand their programs to help the needy argue that a compassionate and affluent society has both the ability and the responsibility to do so; those who believe that governments have already pushed too far and too fast argue that the advance of the welfare state must be halted. Closely related to this basic disagreement is the question whether …

The Individual And The Society: A Needed Reexamination Of Social Legislation And Policy, Ralph Segalman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The pervasive and often destructive effect of Ill-planned social policy (or the lack of effective social policy) is evident In terms of Increasing societal dysfunctionality and lowered quality of life for most people. Almost all social Interventions involve a variety of rights In conflict. Actions by the government to support or protect any one group must necessarily be at the expense of others. In the defense of the rights of individuals and groups the social objectives and social effects of such interventions have been generally Ignored. The problems of design of social policy derive from one-sided or parochial views of …

Social Policy And War, Paul Adams

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In view of the considerable disparity in the effect of World War II on national social policy, it is not surprising that British and American writers have viewed the relationship of war and social policy so differently. While these differences in part reflect the serious neglect of the importance of World War II for American social policy developments, they also reflect real variations of historical experience. I have attempted to develop a framework within which both national experiences can be understood. The framework takes account both of the nature of the war and the demands it makes upon the state …

The Conservative Program For The Welfare-Warfare State: The Response To The Korean, Algerian, And Vietnamese Wars, Clarence Y.H. Lo

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper explains why the leaders of conservative political parties were so successful in the aftermith of limited wars. Conservative parties are those parties whose constituency is large and small business, managers, upper income professionals, and some white collar workers and farmers, exemplified by the Republican Party in the United States, the Gaullist Party in France, the Christian Democrats in Germany and Italy, and the Conservative Party in England. Conservative political leaders rose to power because they addressed the problems intensified by limited wars-- budget deficits, political stalemate, and inter-imperialist rivalries-- and, to some extent, enacted short term solutions--budget cuts, …

Western News, February 24, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Student-Faculty 'Target Ratio' is 18.0-1, Western Students Receive $11.5 Million in Financial Aid During 1975-76, Plan Underwater Archaeological Excavations Off African Coast, 41st Counseling; Guidance Conference Here Saturday, Spring Registration Begins Tuesday, Appoint Counseling Chairman, Western Invades Central Saturday

Western News, February 17, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Engineering Open House Next Week, Chief Justice's Administrative Assistant to Discuss Modernizing Court System, OT Students 'Special Sitters', Trumpet Day Here Features Clark Terry, 'Shenandoah' Comes to Miller, Conference Examines Survival of Black Student Organizations, Aviation Safety Expert to Visit

Western News, February 10, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Observe Black History Month, Woman Economic Adviser to Lecture Here Feb. 17, Hunt Writes New Philippine Book, Leningrad Symphony Here Feb. 12, Women's Center Displays Sculpture, Name Chartrand, White to Key Journal Posts, Visiting Artist Here Next Week, WMU Study Finds Great Lakes Area Weather Has Gotten Cooler, KSO Presents Robert Merrill

Computers As Aids To Linguistic Studies, Kathy J. Scheiern

Honors Theses

The main bulk of my senior honors project consists of a computer program. Therefore, I will attempt, in this paper, to give a brief general description of this program in regards to its development, its uses, and its possible classroom applications.

Western News, January 27, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Governor Seeks $3.9 Million Increase for WMU in 1977-78, MAWDAC Elects Norton President, Implement Efficiency Recommendations, Bouma Defines Poverty, Engelke Authors National Report, Computer Center 'Publishes Handbook, Secretarial Seminar Jan. 29; Trustees Re-elect Officers; Appoint Board Committees, ALA Cites Librarianship School Here, OT King Visits Western, Install TAPPI Chapter Tonight, Crime Prevention Bureau Opens Here on Campus

Western News, January 20, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Move Parking Violation Bureau, Trustees Meet Here Friday, Special Diamond Jubilee Funds May Be Available on Campus, Plan Special Weekend to Combat Doldrums, KSO Features Piano Soloist, Kinsey To Direct Western's Paper Fiber Recycling Unit, Pianist Sandor Here Next Week, McKee 'W' Club Man of the Year

Western News, January 13, 1977, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Economic Adviser Duesenberry to Lecture Here on Campus, Future of Health; Human Services Talk Wednesday, Holmes Receives International Post, Release Special Info to Vets; Student Loan & Aid Recipients, Ballet Division Classes Begin, Plan Fair, Mini-Workshops for Student Volunteers