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The Electoral College: Retention, Reform, Or Abolition?, Gary E. Brown

Honors Theses

Several Presidential elections during our history have shown that the electoral college machine is a crude invention that has never been "well-oiled" and two elections within the last decade are vivid proof of this problem.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, March 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Nearly 300 Advanced Degrees at December Graduation
• School of Social Work Receives $300,000 Grant
• 2nd Semester WMU Enrollment Sets A New Record
• President Miller Names All-University Committee to Probe WMU's Future in '70's
• University Trustees OK Student Association Control Over Student Services Council
• Dr. John Everett Succumbs In Kalamazoo
• New Physical Science Complex Buildings Named for Paul Rood, John Everett
• WMU's Athletic Spirit And Physical Plant Memorialize M. J. Gary

The Effect Of Inequitable Payment Upon Selected Task-Related Cognitions, Robert Dennis Moulton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Electrophysiological Correlates Of The Basolateral And Corticomedial Amygdaloid Divisions Associated With Biting-Behavior, Jon F. Defrance

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

University Magazine Vol. 28 No. 1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• Social Work Education: Preparation for Social Problem-Solving in the 1970's
• The Current Dilemma in Black and White
• Political Science at the Start of the Seventies
• Loose Talk, Writing and News May Cost a Generation
• New Alumni Association Officers
• New Alumni Association Directors
• Outstanding Young Women of America
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• Alumni Association Life Members

Science And Social Relevance, Gerald Holton

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Featured Address presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

Having struggled myself with various experiments in General Education over the years, what I'd like to talk about today are not any of the successes but rather some of the problems, particularly the problems that I see coming to us faster and faster in this business of bringing education in science to students who, many of them, are turning away from science and all it stands for.

Perspectives Vol. 2 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

A Plan To Improve Reading Instruction For The Superior Student In First Grade, Jo Ann Nieuwkoop

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Teachers often become so concerned about children who are having difficulty that the needs of the superior students are neglected. Bright students often learn early to work independently; because of this, teachers "put them on their own." All of the students in the classroom need guidance in their development, but good readers need a different kind of guidance than that required for the average or slow learners. It is important for superior students to develop and mature physically, emotionally, socially as well as mentally so that they may become well developed personalities who will be better able to make worthwhile …

Reading Horizons Vol. 10, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 10, issue 2.

A Multi-Media Approach To Reading, Lucetta A. Johnson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

As a new teacher in the Allegan Public Schools one of the primary goals for the year was to present reading activities to the children in as many interesting ways as possible to enrich their reading experiences. A multi-media approach was chosen to accomplish this goal and to encourage the children to love books. By multi-media approach (1) is meant an approach that uses as many printed and audiovisual forms of communication as possible. The program used consisted of the following media, which are by no means all that are currently available: Basal Readers, Library Books, Film Strips, Educational Television, …

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Postman, Neil, and Weingartner, Charles Teaching as a Subversive Activity New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. Pp. xv + 219.

All Roads Lead To... Recognition 1970, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

All Roads Lead To...

Recognition 1970

Honored Retirees:

• Albert B. Becker
• Golda Crisman
• John B. Healey
• Frank J. Hinds
• Elizabeth G. Householder
• Frank C. Householder
• John G. Kemper
• Vern E. Mabie
• Hermann E. Rothfuss
• Roy J. Wietz

The Challenge To Make Undergraduate Curricula Relevant To Students’ Needs, David S. Pacini, Francis D. Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 3 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

The challenge for the liberal arts curriculum rests in the willingness of its leaders and teachers to again address the existential condition of which we are a part. We must be far more willing to probe the symbolic nature of men, and society, to unearth the dimensions of man for which students crave. We must address ourselves to the presupposition of a culture which is in many ways diffe rent from our own. Liberal arts education must take …

Conflict And Change In The Academic Community, Sidney Hook

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The direction of change which holds the greatest promise for deepening, enriching and developing the great humanistic and scientific legacies of university education is by liberalizing the curriculum and processes of teaching and learning in the light of the ideals of the liberal arts tradition. These legacies may stem from the contributions of socially privileged and elite groups of the past. Today our technology makes it possible for all men and women who are willing and able, to partake of them, to contribute to them, and to find meaning and enjoyment in them. The liberal arts tradition is strengthened by …

Anatomy Of An Anatomy Cult, Claude S. Phillips

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The Sexual Revolution of the last half-century has produced in advanced societies a new curiosity about the varieties of cultural forms dealing with erotic matters. It may be a little surprising, therefore, for our readers to find that there is still a major culture with unusual sexual attitudes and practices which is almost unknown. The Nacirema Tribe, which was discovered by Professor Horace Miner.

Needed For The 1970'S: An Educational Policy For The Social Sciences*, Claude S. Phillips Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The list of efforts at intercultural education is almost limitless. The impact of these efforts has been so meager as to be startling. Conferences are still being convened to study the problem of how to incorporate intercultural studies into the educational system.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, January 1970, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Dr. Leo Stine New WMU Dean of Continuing Education
• WMU Library Research Collections Available To 90 S.W. Mich. Libraries
• Graduate Seminar In Library Service to Aid Disadvantaged Child
• WMU Black Americana Studies Program Hosts Initial Conference
• Dr. Cornelius Loew to Study Black Heritage in U.S. and Africa With Danforth Grant
• Dr. Jean Lowrie 'Librarian of Year" by Michigan Library Assoc.
• Librarianship Department Publishes Guide to Aid Disadvantaged Child
• 'Attempt to Bring University to Doorstep Of School Administrator'

A Proposal For A Long-Range Project For The Association For General And Liberal Studies, Malcolm Correll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Retiring President's Address presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

Perspectives Vol. 2 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Perspectives Vol. 1 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting which was held at Colgate University, October 30 through November 1, 1969.

A Most Promising Start, Henry Winthrop

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Environment for Man. The Next Fifty Years, Edited by William R. Ewald, Jr.; Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, Pub. 1967. 308 pages.

The Role Of The Undergraduate College In Social Change, Kenneth E. Boulding, John Weiss

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 1 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

All social change, without exception, involves a process in human learning. Social change, indeed, is an evolutionary process in the field of the "noosphere," especially if we include in this those human artifacts which are the result of imprinting human knowledge on the material and social world.

We ought to be clear at the start that the academic disciplines and the undergraduate college have not had any great impact on social change. Historically, social change in our culture …

Environmental Components Of Liberal Education, George G. Stern, Daniel Lago, Samuel D. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Panel 2 presented at the Association for General and Liberal Studies' Annual Meeting at Colgate University, October 30th through November 1st, 1969.

The elements of such a curriculum for man can be derived from the evidence of early childhood. Manual dexterity, social interaction, esthetic response, and linguistic capacity constitute four sources of spontaneous gratification in early life. If the student were taken as the integrating center of a curriculum composed of successively more complex forms of these four elements, permitting his own inductive capacities to lead him on from one level to the next, a form of education would emerge …

Science & Technology In Education: What Kind Of A Marriage Is This?, Franklin G. Fisk

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Science as a human activity can help give us answers to adequate technologies in the classroom, but only if the nature of the scientific enterprise is properly recognized for what it is: A human approach to the world of sense experience with certain definite but necessary biases involving the creative use of hypothesis and theory in conjunction with valid generalizations and accurate data. All this is science, man is a part of it, and I firmly believe that science is one of man's most successful attempts to understand the world in which he lives.

The Course Curse, Dale Porter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The course is the backbone of American higher education. Curricula built around sequences or selections of courses are almost universal in our colleges and universities. Attempts to move outside the course structure are still regarded as experimental or as exceptions to the rule, and their achievements are not generally understood unless translated into the language of course requirements. For example, when students demanded the opportunity for political involvement in the November campaigns, university officials obliged them-with a course. When college teachers think of educational reform they think of changing the content or the scheduling of courses, or at most the …

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1970-71, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1970, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 16
  • February 20
  • March 20
  • April 17
  • May 15
  • June 12
  • July 6
  • August 14
  • September 18
  • October 16
  • November 20
  • December 18
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April, 1970
  • August, 1970
  • December, 1970
• INDEX

The Effect Of Group Counseling On The Adjustment And Behavior Of Returning Foreign Study Students At Kalamazoo College, Thomas J. Walsh

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, December 1969, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Must Make Searching Analysis of University Purpose
• Dr. Whitney Young Opens School of Social Work Convocation Series
• WMU Trustees Request Record Appropriation From State Legislature
• Student Enrollment from Michigan Up 8.4%
• New U. Theatre Director
• George Sprau Passes Away at Age 93
• Graduate Studies Publishing New Kalamazoo History

A Popular Uprising In Twelfth Century France The Capuciati Of The Auvergne, Lila Beth Burke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.