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Western News, September 18, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Set Moratorium on Remodeling, Establish Car Pool Service, Plan Alcohol Awareness Week, Local M.D. To Discuss 'Human Sexuality and College Student', Newsprint Recycler To Address Annual Paper Tech Foundation Meeting Here, University Health Center Discontinues Night; Some Weekend Service Hours, Depreciation Program Underway, Sammy Cahn's 'Words and Music' At Miller Auditorium Sept. 29, Broncos Face Big Ten Gophers, Postal Rates Effect Campus

Western News, August 29, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bus Service Schedule Set, Name Health Center Medical Chief; Plus Three Physicians, Bernhard Comments on Latest Legislative Budget Slashing, To Merge Phys. Ed.; Separate Athletics, Change Child Care Center Status, Retain Consultants to Assist Alumni, Development Efforts, International, Patron's Choice Series Tickets Still on Sale, Approve New Travel Rates; Class-Related Charges Policy

Western News, August 17, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: National Math Meetings Here, Variety of Tours Await Visitors, More Math Meeting Activities, Initiate Annual Lecture Series, Plan Several Timely Panels, Host Institution Created in 1903, Name Arrangements Committee Members

Western News, August 14, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dr. Wayne Wonderley's Death Reported, Campus Calendar, Former Faculty Member Dies, Summer Hours End this Month, Have a Look Around, Program Funded by HEW Grant, Have a Look Around, Bronco Team Scores Well, Summer Production Opens Tomorrow, Job Openings Listed, Program for Overweight People Will Start

Western News, August 7, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: University Will Host Mathematicians, "Story Theater" Opens Next Week, "Perceptions" Offers Report in China, Retired Faculty Member Dies, PA's Are O.K. with K.P.D., Campus Calendar, Recreation Building is Closed, Job Openings

An Analysis Of Characteristics Of College Deans In Selected State-Supported Institutions Of The North Central Association Of Colleges And Secondary Schools, Thomas A. Carey

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Barriers To Knowledge For Practice: The Casework Effectiveness Dilemma, Alan Siman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the social work community there exists an acknowledged need for evaluating the effectiveness of casework services. This need developed and was sustained over time because of pressure exerted by the profession for internal accountability: understanding practice to improve intervention and insure professional growth. But more recently, evaluation endeavors arose from pressure to demonstrate external accountability: the need to prove the validity of casework services. This shift was produced by the change in casework financing from private voluntary contributions to public tax dollars. Claims made in the early 1960's that expansion of casework services could reduce existing, and prevent future, …

Therapists Or Helpers? Notes On A Youth-Type Free Clinic, Michael W. Agopian, Robert W. Dellinger, Gilbert Geis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper builds upon a helpful typology of free clinics that divides then into four major kinds - the street, neighborhood, youth, and sponsored. While the typology tends to weave among characteristics of clientele, locale, and source of support in setting up its units, it nonetheless has the advantage of being based on an empirical assessment of the major forms of clinic operations through the country. Youth clinics - the type that particularly concerns us here - are defined as "generally organized by adults, service clubs, or official boards... because of their concern about drug use among high school students." …

The Welfare Calculus Allocations And Utilization Within The American States, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the history of the American states, the attitude toward "welfare" had been fundamentally ambivalent. On the one hand there is a great thrust in this country toward charity, and toward helping the poor. Much is given each year to United Funds across the country (860 million in 1972-73), and the Christmas listing by the New York Times of the 100 "neediest cases" results in much spontaneous offering of aid. On the other hand, Americans are singularly suspicious of institutionalizing this impulse. These suspicions leave the United States behind other comparable countries in providing social welfare benefits. Indeed, so suspicious …

Program Research As Social Practice, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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What is done with the information developed by any researcher involves ethical and political considerations out of his control. In administrative research the sponsor has been able to dictate all conditions. We believe that this has contributed to the crisis in confidence about whether or not developing knowledge makes a difference in solving the problems of this world. It is time for professional societies to take more responsibility for the behavior of their members and to provide them with more protection.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Welfare Calculus: Allocations and Utilization Within The American States - JOHN E. TROPMAN, pp 416
• The Politics of Funding: Human Needs and Social Welfare - ROBERT F. KRONICK, pp 436
• The Socially Constructive Aspects of Outside Agency in Community Decision Making in a Rural Area - BARRY R. GORDON, DANIEL I. RUBENSTEIN, pp 451
• Evaluating Explorations and Demonstrations for Planning in Criminal Justice - LEONARD RUTMAN, pp 460
• Client Costs and Early Discontinuance from a Community-Basec Treatment Program - RONALD A. FELDMAN, MORTIMER GOODMAN, JOHNS. WODARSKI, WALLACE J. GINGERICH, pp 469
• Barriers to Knowledge for Practice: …

The Politics Of Funding: Human Needs And Social Welfare, Robert F. Kronick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Sociological theory has provided two models that attempt to explain social power and decision making in America, the elite model (Mills) and the pluralist model. Mills saw power in America like particles dispersed in a triangle--with more and more power at the top, but more people at the base of the triangle. For Mills there was a powerful elite that ruled almost like a monarchy and decision making on all fronts was vested in them. Rebellion as utilized in Merton's paradigm would turn this triangle upside down in setting up new goals and new means, as well as distributing power …

The Socially Constructive Aspects Of Outside Agents In Community Decision-Making In A Rural Area, Barry R. Gordon, Daniel I. Rubenstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The "outside-change agent" is dangerous, something to be feared (based on past experiences, long since blurred by boredom and powerlessness) and not taken into the community. The outsider offers few, if any, tangible immediately useable resources -- only promises and fancy talk. Limited experience has taught the Appalachian that promises fade into misery and fancy talk to poverty. The self-fulfilling prophesy of inhospitality and disbelief in oneself, turn the Appalachian against the change agent and challenge the agent to leave the area out of self-felt persistent futility.

Evaluating Explorations And Demonstrations For Planning In Criminal Justice, Leonard Rutman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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This paper has emphasized the importance of evaluative research as an integral component for both explorations and demonstrations, particularly for its contribution to planning in criminal justice. In so doing, an attempt has been made to differentiate the purposes and, consequently, the appropriate research strategies for evaluating these projects. The research of explorations aimed to facilitate the process of conceptualizing and operationalizing "innovative" services into testable demonstrations. To increase the validity and generalizability of individual demonstration projects, replications in different places under varying conditions are needed. According to Wholey, however, many small studies have been …

Client Costs And Early Discontinuance From A Community-Based Treatment Program, Ronald A. Feldman, Mortimer Goodman, John S. Wodarski, Wallace J. Gingerich

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In social work circles client withdrawal from a treatment program commonly has been labeled as "discontinuance". Discontinuance rates have been inordinately high for both casework and group work endeavors, ranging in some instances to 59Z of all clients following the first interview (Aronson and Overall, 1966; Empey and Erickson, 1972; Goldstein, Heller, and Sechrest, 1966; Levinger, 1960; Overall and Aronson, 1963). Discontinuance represents an obvious and essential concern for social work for one overarching reason, to wit, treatment interventions cannot be implemented should the client(s) withdraw from the therapeutic relationship. Additionally, as some investigators have shown, discontinuance represents a focal …

Western News, June 26, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Salary Adjustments Await Appropriations, Gernant Announces Retirement, Presidential Assistant Honored, Bookstore is Closed, Board Appoints New Department Heads, Retired Biology Professor Dies, University to Host Mathematicians, Freedom Train Will Stop in Kalamazoo, Job Openings Listed, New Baseball Coach Selected, WMU Cited in Congressional Record

Bulletin: Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 1975-1976, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• University Calendar • Board of Trustees • Administrative Officers • Administrative Groups • Admission • Degrees • Degree Requirements • General Education Requirement • Student Planned Curriculum • Undergraduate Curricula and Approved Majors • Major and Minor Requirements • Teacher Certification • Student Fees • Academic Regulations • Student Academic Rights: Policies and Procedures • Student Services • Student Financial Aid and Scholarships • Buildings and Grounds • The Honors College • College of Applied Sciences • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Business • College of Education • College of Fine Arts • College of General …

Faculty Publications 1973-74, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1973-Ii is the twelfth 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.

Western News, May 29, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Chandelier Installed in the Oaklands, Upward Bound Starts 10th Year, Job Openings, Announce Winners of Fulbright-Hays Awards, Workshop for Women Again Offered, English Examination Dates Listed, Office Name Changed, Campus Calendar, Applications Now Open for Child Care Center

Western News, May 22, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: York Named Theater Director, Report on Board of Trustees Meeting, Student Center Weekend Schedule, Announce Competition for Grants, Budget Limit Causes Bulletin Cutback, Trustees Establish Guidelines, Faculty-Student Recital is Tuesday, Job Openings, Instructional Position Openings, Comedy Announced for Spring

Western News, April 24, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Inauguration; Commencement Saturday, Reish Heads P.B.K. Group, Medieval Conference Here May 4-7, Student Telephone Talkathon Sets World Record; Helps Burn Center, Dr. Grotzinger Gives Final Address As Outgoing Faculty Senate President, Carnegie Recital Hall Concert Culminates Brass Quintet Tour, W.M.U. Students To Tour N.Y.C. Art Galleries; Museums; Studios, Delehanty New Herald Editor

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

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• President's Message
• Campus Scenes
• Criminal Justice Program
• Annual Report to Investors 1974
• Alumni News
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

A Study Of Undergraduate Student Financial Need At Western Michigan University For The 1974-1975 Academic Year, Paul W. Trombley

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Counseling Internship: A Trainee's Personal Report, Carole Marie Bullmer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

ISSUE EDITOR: JOAN WALLACE, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C., SELIG RUBINROTT, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, WEST HARTFORD, CT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Black Families and National Policy - ANDREW BILLINGSLEY, pp. 312
• Social Workers, Immigrants, and Historians: A Re-examination - LESLIE LEIGHNINGER, pp. 326
• Some Socio-Cultural Aspects of Growing Up Black - JOAN S. WALLACE and SAMUEL P. WONG, pp. 345
• Racial Identification versus Professional Identification: can They Be Reconciled - PATRICIA A. BROWN, pp. 358
• Ethnicity, Political Coalition, and the Development of a Megapolicy Perspective in Social Work Education - HOWARD A. PALLEY …

Some Socio-Cultural Aspects Of Growing Up Black, Joan S. Wallace, Samuel P. Wong

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Black people, like other people, grow up in families. This simple observation is a suprise to people who are accustomed to associate the experiences of Black people with slavery, crime, delinquency, civil disorders. The Black historian, Benjamin Quarles (1967) has observed that white America tends to have a distorted perspective on Black life, and the fact of Blacks growing up in a family is a fresh approach to the understanding of socio-cultural aspects of growing up Black (cf. Billingsley, 1968).

The family is society's primary context for meeting a child's biological needs, directing his development …

Ethnicity, Political Coalition And The Development Of A Megapolicy Perspective In Social Work Education, Howard A. Palley, Marian L. Palley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social Work Education should have two major tasks with regard to teaching about ethnicity, particularly working-class ethnics. The fostering of sensitivity to diverse cultures, and the members of such cultural groups is clearly one thrust; the architectural task of participating In the building of a society which fulfills the needs and builds the security of its people should be the second function. In the past, social work education has taught about ethnicity and often about politics with a narrow perspective limited "to single dimensions of policy". A broader gauge "megapolicy perspective' would enable practitioners to refrain from dividing ethnic group …

Assimilationist Theory And Immigrant Minorities In The United States And Canada: Implications For Social Services Development, John M. Herrick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper examines from a comparative perspective theories of cultural assimilation in the United States and Canada and speculates on the impact of these theories for developing social services, especially social services for immigrants and ethnic minorities.

Some Implications Of Ethnic Disparity In Education For Social Work, Faustine C. Jones, Samuel P. Wong

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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The increasing attention to the institutional nature of social problems is a significant emphasis in social work. Many of the personal troubles of individual clients are the products of a social system which operates to keep them in trouble, and an awareness of the institutional nature of social problems is a prerequisite for effective solution of personal troubles (cf. C. Wright Mills, 1959).

The Ethnic And Class Dimensions In Neighborhood: A Means For The Reorganization Of Human Service Delivery Systems, Arthur J. Naparstek, Karen Kollias

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Human service delivery systems get criticized by both "users" and "providers" of the services, regardless of countless reforms, evaluations, models, decentralization efforts and re-evaluations. In order to determine directions for the future, this article will discuss past policy initiatives, and review the literature which links human service needs to ethnicity and social class in a neighborhood context.