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The Westerner Vol. 2 No. 4, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Governor proposes payments delay • Homemade seismograph records January earthquake • 78 activities may be modified • Kemp, Edwards elected Board chairman, vice chair • Annual fund tops 52 million in 1981 • Kalamazoo book's first printing sold out • Dwindling supply of students poses recruitment challenge • Mallinsons honored as science editors • Among Alumni • Alumninotes • Sports

Western News, January 28, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Milliken proposes payments delay for July; August and September, National Waterlift gives $50,000 to Western, Board names Stillwell assistant dean of fine arts, Barton of physical plant granted retirement, Workshops and presentations on intellectual skills development set for Feb. 11-12; 19

Western News, January 21, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Kemp; Edwards elected Board chairman; vice chair, '78 activities are recommended for termination here, Bernhard recommends no further action on issues relating to South Africa for now, Gives safety tips on walking in icy areas, Parfet thanks colleagues for their support, Martin Luther King Program dinner Friday

Western News, January 7, 1982, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: U employees United Way pledges up 9.6 percent, All Eligible C/T employees urged to vote in election, U to begin Employee Recognition Program, Brail and Vermeulen granted retirement as emeriti, Miller; Rossi re-elected to AAUP leadership posts

University Employee Service Recognition Program 1982, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

• 25 Year Club
• Five-Nine Years of Service
• Ten-Fourteen Years of Service
• Fifteen-Nineteen Years of Service
• Twenty-Twenty-Four Years of Service

1982 Brown & Gold Western Michigan University, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures across campus
• Pictures of Seniors

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1982-83, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Innovative Techniques Of Counseling, Milton R. Cudney

All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

Index of Techniques

• Technique # I. Counselor-Made Drawings
• Technique # 2. Taking the Flip Side Of The Argument
• Technique # 3. The Use of Owning Language By The Counselor
• Technique # 4. Let The Client In On What You Are Trying To Do
• Technique # 5. Interrupt Clients
• Technique # 6. Polaroid Technique
• Technique # 7. Holding A Pretend Gun To The Client's Head
• Technique # 8. A Technique To Make Replacement Behaviors Not Seem So Strange And Unknown
• Technique # 9. Counselor Prepared To Give The Client Examples Of What The Counselor Is Seeking
• Technique #10. Wastebasket Technique
• Technique …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting December 18, 1981, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Western Student Association Constitution
• Executive Session on Litigation
• Board Committee Reports
• Research/Sponsored Programs Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, December 17, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Nearly 1,370 to be graduated in Saturday exercises, U to help explore means for area graduate nursing, First blind recipient of psychology M.A., Individual Retirement Accounts offer U employees tax-deferred income opportunities, Harbaugh says he has goal-oriented grid philosophy

The Westerner Vol. 2 No. 3, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Western informed it gets full NCA accreditation • Business center named for John E. Fetzer • Western is number four! • Dybek, Woods get national arts grants • Protest federal cuts for students • Trustees approve '81 -82 budget of $72 million • Cameron receives major award at Commencement • Michigan's 2-year gain in higher ed lowest in nation • Arvco gives $40,000 to 'Partners' campaign • Scholarship named for George Klein • Five faculty members recognized with Alumni Teaching awards • Bernstein, Earhart and Maier get Faculty Scholar awards • Paper Technology Foundation elects officers • The 1982 …

Reading Horizons Vol. 22, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 22, issue 2.

Improving Textbook Learning With S4r: A Strategy For Teachers, Not Students, Elton G. Stetson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of this article is to introduce S4R, a reading study system designed to improve comprehending and remembering of information contained in a textbook. While S4R certainly can be utilized as a self-study method similar to those identified above, the focus here will be on S4r as it is used by the teacher in the classroom. The system will be briefly described, followed by initial research findings and implications for use.

Independent Cloze Activities For Increasing Sight Vocabulary, Anne M. Ferguson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article is concerned with modifying the cloze procedure into letter cloze independent activities to aid children in learning difficult sight words.

Effects Of Phenytoin On Schedule-Controlled Performance, Kathleen M. Krafft

Dissertations

The present studies examined the effects of acute and chronic administrations of phenytoin on the responding of pigeons and rats maintained under fixed-ratio, fixed-interval, and interresponse-time-greater-than-t schedules of food reinforcement. These schedules typically engender different rates and temporal patterns of responding and are often differentially affected by drugs. The results indicated that phenytoin, given acutely, produced dose-dependent decreases in the response rate of rats and pigeons maintained under fixed-ratio and fixed-interval schedules. Response rates under the fixed-interval and inter response-time-greater-than-t schedules were little affected by the drug. A degree of tolerance was observed to phenytoin's rate-decreasing effects when the drug …

An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Selected Readability Formulas Applied To Secondary Texts, Donna Keenan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Everyday, the reality of this statement becomes painfully obvious to many high school students across the nation. The creative ideas implemented in elementary school are not often to be found on the secondary level. Instead, we find subject area teachers who are confident of their ability to uphold the "high standards" in teaching the content of their particular disciplines. Unfortunately, these high standards frequently involve using material which is written on a high twelfth grade or college readability level. With national attention focused on students' declining scores in reading, as well as increased apprehension concerning the number of illiterate high …

A Report Of An Internship In Central Office Administration In The Forest Hills Public Schools, Joyce M. Newhouse

Masters Theses

This is a report of an internship experience in central office administration. It is a study of the Forest Hills School District, Grand Rapids, Michigan, following a millage defeat, and depicts the central office administrators as they accept the challenges thrust upon them. It is an analysis of the roles and responsibilities inherent in the positions of the superintendency and assistant superintendencies of business, instruction and personnel as they emerged during a crisis period. The information is presented from the vantage point of the administrative intern who functioned as an additional staff member.

Improving On-The-Job Performance Of Restaurant Employees Through Behavior Modification Techniques, Patricia A. Kershek

Masters Theses

Behavior modification techniques were used to improve the performance of individual employees in a restaurant setting. Desired performance was defined in operational terms. Contingent upon observations of desired behavior, procedures involving praise, performance charts, and bonuses were implemented according to an ABCB design. After applying both praise and performance charts, bonuses were added so that all three techniques were in operation. Then, bonuses were discontinued. Results indicated that while employee performance (quality of performance and time spent on the job) improved when praise and performance charts were applied, the addition of a bonus led to even further improvement. Hence, bonuses …

Distributive Fairness: An Exploration Of Male-Female Differences In Allocation Behavior, Daryl G. Kelley

Masters Theses

Previous research has shown that males and females follow different strategies in allocating rewards for unequal performance on a team task: Males tend to utilize an exploitive allocation strategy, while females tend to be more accommodating in their, allocations. Research has also shown that allocation strategies may differ depending on whether the allocation of rewards is to be made public or is known only to the allocator. Public reward allocations of males tend to be more exploitive than females, while this difference is reversed for private allocations. The present study sought to replicate and extend previous studies, using a factorial …

Matching-To-Sample In The Pigeon: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Correction And Noncorrection Procedures, Deborah Lou Grossett

Masters Theses

Contradictory results concerning the effect that presence or absence of a correction procedure has on matching-to-sample were obtained by past studies (Carter and Werner, 1978; Thomas, 1979). Carter and Werner (1978) reported that exposure to a correction procedure resulted in an increase in accuracy, while Thomas (1979) found no difference between the noncorrection and correction procedures. The present study showed that exposure to a correction procedure resulted in an increase in accuracy in comparison to a noncorrection procedure during acquisition, but not during maintenance.

Past studies (Holt and Shafer, 1973; Thomas, 1979), using a correction procedure, showed that presence of …

Teenagers Problems: An Examination Of Youth And Adult Perceptions, Richard E. Isralowitz, Mark Singer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

It has been pointed out by the Task Force on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (1976) that too often programs have been planned and implemented on the basis of uninformed speculation. In order to determine the major concerns of youths for purposes of delinquency prevention and resources allocation, a study was conducted in the Cleveland area of Ohio. This study was designed to compare the perspectives of youths and adults toward teenage problems.

While the exact ranking of problems were not identical, the eleven problem statements ranked highest by both populations were highly similar. The problems that are drawing the …

Magnitude Estimation Of The Quality And Intelligibility Of Degraded Speech, Theresa Smith

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study was to identify within-group and between-group differences in perceived quality and perceived intelligibility of degraded speech for listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Following a visual magnitude estimation task, 10 subjects with normal hearing and 10 subjects with sensory-neural hearing impairment listened to connected speech samples degraded by seven levels of harmonic distortion and estimated the magnitude of their quality and intelligibility. Log average quality estimates and log average intelligibility estimates varied linearly with log degradation values for each group. The slopes of the log-log functions were interpreted as measures of perceptual sensitivity. Slopes for …

Structural And Organizational Forces In The Etiology Of Corporate Crime, Beti Thompson

Dissertations

In an effort to gain understanding of the etiology of corporate crime, a theoretical framework for examining the problem has been developed. This framework includes structural features such as a capitalistic organization of society, the importance of political economy, the importance of market structure, and the importance of corporate influence over the legal environment, in understanding corporate crime. Corporations within this society are affected by the structural features of society. Organizations are organized according to capitalistic principles and effectively force their employees into certain kinds of actions and activities. It was theorized that such organizational factors might have an influence …

Self Care As An Innovation In Health Care Delivery: The Health Systems Agency As Medium And Barrier, Yvonne Marie Vissing

Dissertations

This is an inquiry into the attitudes of Health Systems Agency Boards of Directors toward the use of self care as part of the health and delivery system. Self care is viewed as a current social movement in health care. Contributions and limitations of both classical social movement theory and resource mobilization theory were examined for their utility in understanding and making predictions about the self care movement. Self care attitudes of the boards of directors from all eight Michigan Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) were analyzed through the Self Care Attitude Index (SCAI). Data were gathered via self-administered, mail questionnaires. …

A Report Of An Internship In The Kalamazoo Police Department, Roy C. Aslanian

Masters Theses

The modern police or law enforcement agency in America has evolved into a highly sophisticated organization in terms of technology > quality of personnel, organizational and managerial methods, procedures, and tasks performed. It is recognized that in order to adequately perform its public mission, law enforcement agencies must be politically sensitive, and publicly responsive, be able to manage its resources to a high degree of cost effectiveness, and select, train, and retain police officers who are professionally competent. Police administrators and supervisors are continually confronted with the problem of how to best develop a quality police officer in a short period …

A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of The Elementary School Secretary, John Raymond Chirco

Dissertations

The importance of the role of the elementary school secretary was established along with the findings that job satisfaction may be related to job performance. It was also pointed out that the relationship between job satisfaction and the independent variables that may be related to or influence it have not been identified. This led to the problem of how job satisfaction may be improved and therefore possibly increase performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to identify those independent variables that may be related to job satisfaction.

Literature regarding job satisfaction varied greatly and was very scarce in terms …

Control Of Eating Behavior: An Evaluation Of The Effects Of Serving Less Preferred Foods Prior To The Meal On Preschoolers' Eating, Paul Joseph Smith Knight

Masters Theses

This study investigated the effects of serving less preferred foods (vegetables) prior to the noon meal on: (1) The amount of vegetables eaten. (2) The variety of different vegetables eaten. (3) The number of servings of vegetables requested by the children. A plate containing 10 grams each of six different vegetables was served under one of two conditions: (1) Alone, 10 minutes prior to the main meal. (2) With the main meal for the first 10 minutes. A third condition allowed for the children to request any one of the six vegetables as an addition to their main meal. The …

Effect Of Informational Posting And Employee Inspection On Safety Hazard Reduction In A Retail Drug Store, Craig A. Berger

Masters Theses

Undesired safety conditions were operationally defined for a large retail drug store. The recording of unsafe conditions were conducted for two different employee shifts for ten weeks. A multiple baseline design (ABC-ACB) was used in which three conditions were introduced: (a) baseline, (b) public posting of a safety performance chart, and (c) individual employee inspections. Results indicated that the frequency of safety hazards declined 23% from baseline for the public post-condition and declined 44% for the employee inspection condition (averaged across both shifts). An advanced analysis of variance indicated significant mean differences (p < .01) between baseline and employee inspection for both shifts. An additional measure was taken correlating photograph ratings by employees on a safety dimension and an attractiveness dimension. The coefficient of correlation was statistically significant (r = .76; p <.05). The results indicate that a training program involving employee inspections may be an effective way of reducing undesirable safety conditions.

A Comparative Analysis Of John Foster Dulles And Henry A. Kissinger And The Impact Their Personalities Had On The Formulation Of American Foreign Policy, Denis Joseph Sullivan

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the impact of personality on the making of American foreign policy. John Foster Dulles and Henry A. Kissinger dominated the American foreign policy process. Their performance allows the political analyst to study the relationship between personality and policy-making.

What follows is a study of John Foster Dulles and Henry Kissinger, their personal background and development, and especially the problems they faced as presidential advisors. Both men were challenged by wars in the Middle East. These Middle East conflicts are here presented as case studies and they reveal how each of these figures met the test. Efforts are …

The Perceived Utility Of The Job Model As A Planning Document For Faculty Members, Victoria Kai-Cacho

Masters Theses

A job model for faculty activity plans was developed based on an interview and a questionnaire response from 14 Western Michigan University professors. Perceived accuracy and usefulness of the job model were measured by a questionnaire designed by the investigator. Responses were analyzed by computing the mean ratings of each item included in the questionnaire. The job model was perceived as an accurate and useful instrument for faculty activity plans, self-development and faculty evaluation. However, methodological limitations suggest that further empirical research with a large sample and participation of administrative officers and students, in addition to faculty members, will be …