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Toward A New Synthesis In The Post-Disciplinary Era, Hoke L. Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

When we discuss the relationship between general education and work, our own semantic myths can easily trap us. General education, liberal education, and career education are labels which we have used to categorize bundles of learning experiences. Although frequently useful to simplify thought, the educational concepts behind these labels often represent illusory rather than actual goals and their meaning assumes a protoplasmic character, visible but elusive, constantly shifting in shape. Current attempts to define and clarify the relationships among general, career, and liberal education are hindered by the rapid educational evolution now occurring, as American postsecondary education moves from the …

The Editor's Page, George F. Estey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Editor's Page for Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1

Cooperative Education - General Education: A New Synthesis?, John J. Romano

Perspectives (1969-1979)

When I first proposed this paper some months ago I had a number of specific purposes in mind. First, I'd grown interested in the development of a concept in American higher education which has been termed cooperative education. Secondly, I wondered about the linkages between cooperative education and what traditionally we have called general or liberal education. Thirdly, I wondered if the linkages between these two concepts were of recent origin or have they existed for a long time without formal recognition. Fourthly, I wondered if this " new synthesis" was something that could have a significant impact on the …

Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four Year Experience At Whittier College", Eugene Wine

Perspectives (1969-1979)

I read with interest Michael McBride's article on the exploratory year at Whittier College. While I am sure that Whittier is satisfied with it and that it contains a number of innovative ideas, such as the "initial module" in various disciplines, I want to speak to the three assumptions upon which Professor McBride and his colleagues rejected any common interdisciplinary general education course for Whittier. I do so because the assumptions are so widely held and because Professor McBride states them so succinctly. I also speak to them as an admitted partisan of a common transdisciplinary general education core course …

The Informant Volume Ix, Number 2, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume IX, Number 2

Winter 1977

• Must and Müssen: A Study in Contrasts
• Faculty-Staff News
• Alumni News -- Graduate Majors
• Alumni News -- Undergraduate Majors
• Alumni News -- Undergraduate Minors
• Recent Graduates
• New Students in Linguistics Programs
• New Critical Language Minors
• New Undergraduate Minors
• New Undergraduate Majors
• New Graduate Majors
• Recent Publications
• Linguistics Department Fall 1977
• Diamond Jubilee Issue

University Magaizine Vol. 2 No. 4, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters
• Travel to Mars in 2001
• Collective Bargaining: Impact
• On Campus
• Teaching Excellence Awards
• Recommended Reading
• Alumni News
• WMU Foundation- A New Entity
• Estate Planning Ideas
• Distinguished Alumni A wards
• New President's Club Members
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

17-Archaeological Survey Of Proposed Sewage Treatment Facilities At Duck Lake, Calhoun County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

On June 27 and 28, an archaeological survey was conducted at Duck Lake, Calhoun County, Michigan. The work was requested by Mr. Brian Lorence of the Calhoun County Department of Public Works. The project involved inspection of sewer line rights-of-way and a treatment facilities site prior to actual construction.

14-Archaeological Survey Of Proposed Sewer Line Rights-Of-Way In Battle Creek Twp., Calhoun County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

On May 26, an archaeological survey was conducted in Battle Creek Twp., Calhoun County, at the request of Mr. Robert Boruszewski of the Calhoun Coun,ty Department of Public Works. The areas surveyed consisted of proposed sewer line rights-of-way that do not lie directly under or adjacent to existing road beds. The areas to be surveyed were identified by Mr. Wes Daining of Jones and Henry Engineers, Ltd., of Toledo, Ohio.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

18-Archaeological Survey Of Proposed Portage Park, Portage, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

On July 8, 1977, an archaeological survey was conducted at the request of Mr. Patrick L. Loeprich of the City of Portage, Michigan. The survey involved inspection of an area where the proposed Portage Park will be located; attention focused on the locating of historic or prehistoric sites in the area to be impacted.

15-Archaeological Survey Of Proposed Sewer Line Rights-Of-Way In Pennfield Twp., Calhoun County, Michigan, Robert G. Kingsley

Reports of Investigations

On May 17, an archaeological survey was conducted at the request of Mr.Robert Boruszewski of the Calhoun County Department of. Public Works. The survey involved inspection of proposed sewer line rights-of-way in Pennfield Twp., prior to the start of construction. The areas to be impacted and surveyed were outlined by Mr. Philip Braswell of Snell Environmental Group, Inc. of Lansing, Michigan.

Skill-Referenced Instruction For Disabled Readers: Guidelines And Cautions, Catherine Morsink

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Early in the development of learning disability programs, the terms reading disability and dyslexia were widely used to describe the problem of a child who had extreme difficulty in learning to decode printed words (Jastak and Jastak, 1965), despite conventional educational opportunity (Money, 1962) and apparent capacity to learn (Bateman, 1964). Reading disability was further distinguished from simple reading difficulty by its severity and its duration, with resultant need for highly specialized treat ment over a long period of time (Rabinovitch, 1962).

Reading Horizons Vol. 17, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 17, issue 2.

(To Charles Smith) Thank You Charles 1977, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

(To Charles Smith) Thank You Charles

1977

Performance Script

This may have been read during 1977 and/or 1978

Perspectives For Moral Education In Higher Education, William P. Frost

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Much of the literature on moral education is of a psychological nature with an emphasis on the individual's responsibility to the challenges of the social environment. The valuable is perceived in terms of (1) the development of the person as (2) a member of society. These publications fail to identify perspectives according to which living and growing become meaningful. Paul Kurtz recognizes this shortcoming.

Many people in post-modern society -young and old - lack direction in their lives, a meaning or purpose. Often it is the " liberated" individuals who seem most vulnerable to a confusion of values and to …

Preliminary Program: Association For General And Liberal Studies 17th Annual National Conference

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Preliminary Program

Association for General and Liberal Studies

17^th Annual National Conference

Weber State College - Ogden, Utah 84408

October 27, 28, And 29, 1977

"General Education: Diversity by Design"

Agls And General Education - Reflections By The President, A. J. Carlson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The Association for General and Liberal Studies serves as "a forum for professional people concerned with undergraduate general and liberal education in each of the several divisions of the curriculum." At least, that is what the Bylaws indicate. But as I talk to people about the organization several more specific questions keep emerging: " What exactly is AGLS anyway?" "Why should I spend $10 a year to support AGLS?" " What is Interdisciplinary Perspectives?" These questions suggest that the Association has as its first problem - to use the current jargon - a very large "communication gap."

Reading And New Ideas, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

The Listening Journal: An Instructional Strategy For A Listening Awareness Program, Andrew D. Wolvin

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The need for training in listening is a problem which has baffled educators for years. Studies demonstrate the tremendous amount of time that we spend in listening within our communication time. Paul T. Rankin's classic study gave us some working percentages, percentages which have held up in other, more recent, research projects. Through his analysis, Rankin discovered that we spend 75% of our time in oral communication. Of that time, approximately 45% is spent in listening and 30% of our time in speaking.

Remediation For The Poor College Reader: Probabilities Of Success, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading is a most complex form of behavior, yet it is basic to all academic tasks. One must be able to successfully interpret the meaning of words to function in the academic environment. Unfortunately, there are thousands of freshmen annually entering our institutions of higher learning without the reading skills needed to complete college level work. This problem is most acute in two-year colleges with a student population that is relatively disadvantaged compared to students in four-year colleges. Two year colleges have more high-risk students in terms of their chances to complete degree aspirations than do four-year colleges and universities.

Improving Humanities Education: Philosophy And Design, Ronald W. Carstens

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Both the Hebrew notion of the fall and the Greek concept of hubris have taught us that human endeavors are essentially acts of pride and possibly acts of arrogance. I suppose that a paper entitled "Improving Humanities Education" would be judged to be as at least impertinent in as much as it suggests that the teaching of the humanities can or ought to be improved. But I believe it is possible to improve the way that body of human intellectual and artistic study of man as man we call the humanities is addressed and actualized in the formal process of …

Convention Report: Focusing On General Education At Chicago Aahe, Peyton Richter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The spotlight during discussions of general education at the AAHE 1978 National Conference on Higher Education in Chicago (March 19-22) played back and forth upon Harvard's Dean Henry Rosovsky and the Harvard Report on the Core Curriculum. A modest but confident pragmatist, Rosovsky, as a panelist at a major session of the conference, began by reminding us that welcoming college graduates each year to the company of educated men and women makes sense only if we know what an educated person is. He and his committee, after much discussion and deliberation, had decided that an educated person: (1) must be …

Opinion Writing For Publication, Richard P. Bailey

Perspectives (1969-1979)

So, when the "writing crisis" hit the pedagogical fan, I was ready with an "innovative" method (so dear to the hearts of educators) for teaching writing. What had lurked in my mind for years pushed its way from subconscious to conscious - i.e ., the only completely satisfying reward for good writing is publication. Students who are given a better reason for writing than the bored approval of a graduate student and/or an arbitrary grade by a young instructor marking papers and time until a section of English Lit. 5,000 opens - students with appetites whetted by the dream of …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

General Education For Living And The Value Of Work: Are They Compatible?, Noojin Walker

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Almost ten years ago the United States Commissioner of Education, Sidney Marland, introduced into the educational vocabulary a new expression - career education. Since then we, in higher education and especially liberal arts and general education, have given little thought to the concept. Because all of us know that vocationalism has no place in a liberal arts education. Consequently, career education also has no place. Yet over the last few years I have observed what appears to be an erosion. Some faculty have moved from hostility to indifference, to cautious support, and, in some cases, to active support of the …

Western Michigan University 1977, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures from across campus
• Pictures of students

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1977-78, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Lucas, Christopher J . Challenge and Choice in Contemporary Education New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Pp. viii + 455.

Foreword To The Special Issue, Chauncey Alexander

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Foreword to the special issue: Warfare or Welfare -- Which Direction for America?

A Moment Of Truth In The Warfare-Welfare Debate: The Transfer Amendment, Elizabeth Holtzman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The controversy over the budget is much more than a debate about how much should be spent in 1977 on the military, or social programs. It is more than a struggle between two branches of the federal government--the legislative and the executive-- over which body should determine the national priorities. Ultimately questions are raised about the viability of the democratic planning process in the warfare/welfare state, and how the people--the governed--can be adequately represented in the process. All of these issues are touched on explicitly or implicitly by Congresswoman Holtzman in the debate (although, to be sure, she was most …