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The Informant Volume Vii, Number 1, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume VII, Number 1

Fall 1974

• Nine Tenses in Kikamba
• Faculty News
• Graduate Majors and Alumni
• Undergraduate Students and Alumni
• New Undergraduate Majors and Minors
• Some Gold Records
• Critical Language Courses
• Consulting Committee
• Microfiche
• Some Good News and Some Bad News
• Call for Papers
• Course Offerings for Winter 1975
• Course Offerings for Spring 1975
• Course Offerings for Summer 1975

How Should Competency-Based Instruction Be Used In College Reading Courses?, Wilma H. Miller

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

There are few educators throughout the United States who currently are unaware of the many possible advantages of using competency- based instruction. Competency-based education certainly is one of the most widely-known and potentially promising innovations on the recent educational scene.

Horizons Of Reading Education: Attacking The Problem Of The Adult Learner, William L. Holladay

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Nazareth College's Department of Continuing Education, directed by Mr. Paul Hang, instituted a unique program in 1972 to serve some very specialized needs of the greater Kalamazoo area. Organized under the name of the Community Learning Center, the program reaches members of groups disadvantaged by income, minority background, and education.

Reading Horizons Vol. 15, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 15, issue 1.

New Premises For Planning In Appalachia, Richard A. Ball

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The Appalachian Region, particularly Southern Appalachia, has lived through several hundred years of frustration related to its history and geography. The history of the area has become better known during recent years, and it is a history of documented exploitation and socioeconomic disillusionment, a "biography of a depressed area" (Caudill, 1962). Geographically, the region has been regarded essentially as a barrier between the settled East and the fertile lands of the West, a place of rugged terrain and harsh conditions of life. This history and geography have played a large part in the problems which now afflict region and which …

An Evaluation Of The Case Against National Income Insurance, John B. Williamson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In an earlier paper I outlined a proposal for a national income insurance plan and discussed the strengths of the approach (Williamson,1974c). Income insurance is a special case of the negative income tax or more generally of the guaranteed income. Negative income tax proposals of any kind are open to a variety of criticisms from both the left and the right. The national income insurance plan is no exception. In the present paper an attempt is made to anticipate and deal with the major arguments against the plan. Many of these arguments are equally applicable to other guaranteed income proposals. …

Western News, September 19, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Goulet Opens Choice Series, Music Dept. to Present New Structures in Sound Series, Expand VA Services; Open New Offices, Girl Struck; Set Memorial Services, To Discuss Economy; Ethnic Community, Court of Four-Right of Appeal-Emergency Cases-Rules of Evidence, Grid Broncos At N. Illinois, Harlem Heyday Here Tuesday, Harriers Face State; Toledo

Western News, September 12, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Extend Insurance Verification Date, Open Student Recreation Building, Previn; London Symphony Open Concert Series, Grant Doubles Student Aid, ROTC Orientation Set Sunday Night, Broncos Face EMU Hurons, Cross Country Season Opens

Western News, September 5, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Comment on Presidential Residence, Shaw Theatre Opens Sept. 12, Coulter Reflects on Presidency, WMU; Union Ink Contract, Set Gym Classes For Youngsters, Establishes Book Fund in Phillips' Memory, Explain Campus Traffic Changes, Football Opener Here Saturday

The Social Welfare Workers Movement: A Case Study Of New Left Thought In Practice, Stanley Wenocur

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

During the upheavals of the 1960's many human service professions and academic disciplines (e.g. psychology, sociology, law, medicine, etc.) underwent severe criticisms of their goals and methodologies, generated both from within and without. In social work one such critique came from the Social Welfare Workers Movement (SWWM), born out of protest-oriented activities at the National Conference on Social Welfare in new York City, 1969. Although SWWM dissipated after about two years, interest in radical social work is still very much alive today. The intent of this paper, then, is to record and analyze the career of the Social Welfare Workers …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 1 (September 1974)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Editorial, pp 2
• The Social Welfare Workers Movement: A Case Study of New Left Thought in Practice - STANLEY WENOCUR, pp 3
• Toward A More Adequate Concept of "Organization" in Social Work Practice - BUFORD E. FARRIS, pp 21
• The Interorganizational Relationships of a Public Welfare Agency - BURTON GUMMER, pp 33
• The Convergence of the Interactionist and Behavioral Approaches to Deviance - STUART A. KIRK, EILEEN D. GAMBRILL, pp 47
• Suicide .... Causation, Indicators and Interventions - FLORENCE W. KASLOW, pp 59
• Protective Services: Coercive Social Control or Mutual Liberation - ALFRED J. FORTIN, pp 81 …

Analysis Of The Relationship Between Personal Values And Internship Success Of High School Practical Experience Program Students, Arthur J. Pease

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Preparation Of Junior-High Science Teachers In The Public Schools Of Southwestern Michigan, George A. Faber

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Noise Pollution A Study In Kalamazoo, Michigan, William Thomas Williams

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Carman School District Major Internship, James Stanton Jones

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Acquisition And Usage Of Instructional Media By Teachers In Selected Michigan Public High Schools, Patricia F. Beilke

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Positive Effects Of Study Objectives Generalize To Novel Probes, Joan Warmbold Boggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Financial And Related Information For Michigan Intermediate School Districts, Howard W. Wood

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Initial Screening And Identification Of Predictors For Possible Use In Selecting Foster Mothers For The Mentally Retarded, Terry L. Penniman

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Seven Library Technology Programs To Determine To What Extent The Programs Parallel The American Library Association Criteria For Library Technology Programs, Evelyn Ruth Schneider

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Knowledge Possessed By Selected Students And Adults About Public School Districts In Five Southwestern Minnesota Communities, Clifford Dale Sibley

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study, In The State Of Michigan, Of The Effects Of Community Education On The Attitudes Of Selected Opinion Leaders Towards Public School Education, Stephen L. Stark

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reading Horizons Vol. 14, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 14, issue 4.

University Magaizine Vol. 32 No. 4, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• The College of Business-Then to Now

• Programs for Part-Time Students

• The New Master of Public Administration

• Sports • Alumni News • Class Notes

• In Memoriam

Ten Second Reviews, Blanche O. Bush

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Western Michigan University is offering the third annual Reading Institute and three workshops which should be of interest to teachers of reading.

The Great Potato Debate, James D. Hudson

Honors Theses

Anencephaly and spina bifida cystica are two of the most common severe congenital malformations consistently observed in human populations. Both represent defects in the neural tube and share a significant number of similar epidemiological associations among them, occupational class, geography, sex ratio, maternal age, year and season of the year. In anencephaly most of the brain and upper skull never form usually resulting in death within a few hours of birth. Spina bifida cystica is a malformation of the spinal cord often causing paralysis, vulnerability to infection, and early death. In 1972, Dr. J.H. Renwick presented a controversial hypothesis which …

A Study Of The Relevance Of Debate Through A Comparison Of Propositions With Congrssional Deliberation, Janine Holloman

Honors Theses

This paper actually began with a Spring semester, 1973 independent study project. The project was to compile a record of intercollegiate debate at Western for each academic year from 1921 to 1974.

University Magazine Vol. 32 No. 3, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• President's Message
• Old and New Renaissance Women
• The Black Woman in Literature: Who Is She?
• The Female College Graduate and the Job Market
• Women's Resource Center
• Mom Gets Her Bachelor's Degree
• Yes Virginia, WMU Does Have Inter-Collegiate Athletics for Women
• Notes from Paradise
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Faculty Publications 1972-73, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1972-73 is the eleventh 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.