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The Aim Of Liberal Education, Henry H. Crimmel

Perspectives (1969-1979)

I. The Crisis of Liberal Education and a Prerequisite for Its Resolution

II. The Failure of Current Definitions

III. The Aim Defined Free of Dogma

IV. The Aim Specified

V. The First Dimension: The Liberal Sciences

VI. The Second Dimension: The Liberal Arts

VII. The Third Dimension: Philosophy

VIII. The Irony in the Present Crisis

IX. The Pre-Emptive Claim of Liberal Education

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.

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.

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1970-71, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

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.

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

Youth Attitudes Toward The Police And Law Enforcement: A Contextual Analysis, Donald G. Williams

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

School Application Of Delayed Conditioning Procedures To Modify Home Behavior, David Arthur Vandervelde

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Non-Contingent Stimuli On Rate Of Lever Pressing Using Human Subjects, Dan V. Lebenta

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Analysis Of Human Social Behavior In A Competitive Situation With The Opportunity For Aggression, William A. Michael

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Staff Perceptions Of Psychiatric Patients In Relation To Disruptive Behavior, Thaddeus I. Stachowiak

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Teacher-Aides On Teachers Perceptions: An Exploratory Study Of Definitions Of Status-Role Activities, Major Classroom Problems, And Status-Role Satisfaction, John H. Natzke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Informant Volume Ii, Number 5, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume II, Number 5

November 1969

• Mystery Problem
• Mystery Language
• Critical Language Minor
• Critical Language Offerings
• Critical Language Instructors
• Pluses and Minuses

An Analysis Of The Comparative Effectiveness Of Day Center Treatment And Out-Patient Treatment For A Psychiatric Population, John T. Gallagher

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

University Magazine Vol. 27 No. 4, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University Oaklands/The First Hundred Years
• The Campus School-A Peripheral View
• Insights from an Insider
• Golden Anniversary Reunion
• Outstanding Young Men of America
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• New Alumni Association Life Members

Ten-Second Reviews, Blanche O. Bush

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Reading Horizons Vol. 10, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 10, issue 1.

Faculty Publications 1967-68, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1967-68 is the sixth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University. The first listed materials that were published between July 1, 1957 and June 30, 1961; the second, between July 1, 1961 and June 30, 1963; the third between July 1, 1963 and June 30, 1965; the fourth, between July 1, 1965 and June 30, 1966; and the fifth, between July 1, 1966 and June 30, 1967. It is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letters to the editor.

Did You See?, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Stimulus Balance And Preference In The Japanese Quail, Richard Leon Mead

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, September 1969, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• WMU's Summer Commencement Largest Ever
• Enrollment Reaches 20,125
• WM Names Director Of Its New Black Americana Studies
• National Confab On Math Draws 1200 to WMU
• Dr. Morvin Wirtz Becomes Assoc. Dean, Education
• Dr. David Adams Heads New Faculty Senate Officers
• WMU Institute Studies Socially Disadvantaged Primary, Pre-Schooler
• New School of Social Work Granted Candidacy by CSWE
• WMU Trustees Name New Assistant Basketball, Track Coaches

An Attempt To Manipulate The Results Of A Psychomotor Learning Task, Robert D. Cable

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of X-Radiation On Saccharine Consumption As A Function Of Dosage And Interstimulus Interval, Michael Drillings

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Some Relationships Associated With Academic Success In Graduate Work At A Midwestern University, Stelios Georgiou Chimonides

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Yugoslav Communist Party: Decentralization And Reorganization, Barbara P. Mccrea

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Classical Discrimination Conditioning Of Pain-Elicited Aggression, Delmar A. Ozolins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Generalization Effects Of Verbal Conditioning In Chronic Schizophrenics, James Larry Tichenor

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.