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Development Of An Institutional And State Planning Programming Budgeting Model For Michigan Higher Education, Loyal Archie Vannette

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The Use And Transferability Of Systematic Human Relations Training In A Paraprofessional Associate Degree Program, Terrance Albert Hagan

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An Investigation Of The Interaction Of Educational Cognitive Style, Teaching Style, And Instructional Area For Selected Community College Instructors, Francis W. Crookes

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A Study Of The Use Of The Computer As A Problem-Solving Tool In An Introductory Course In College Physics, Roland L. Meade

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A Dramaturgical Model For Analysis Of Social Control Through Conflict Management: The Case Of A University Ombudsman, Kenneth L. Stewart

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Western News, November 18, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Holds Dad's Day, Issue Plea for Energy Conservation on Campus During Thanksgiving Recess, Food; Clothing Drive Underway, Sculpture Show Opens Friday, Zupko Tells of 'Storm', Burian Testifies on Human Service, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, Ann Helgesen Dies Nov. 11, Stallman Presents Dramatic Readings, Western Has $78.5 Million Annual Impact on Kalamazoo, Elect Bernhard AASCU Director, WMU Co-Sponsors Metric Conference

Western News, November 11, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Look at Future of Language; Computer Talk, Former Nixon Adviser Visits, Panel Discussion on Alcohol Set, Art Auction Here Nov. 21, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Japan Seminar Here Saturday, Lofflers Report on Iran Research, Genetic Engineering Talk by Friedman, Explain Salary Progress Chart

Western News, November 4, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Korean Conference Here, Short-Term Loan Applications Due, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, WMU Hosts Chicano Day, Holmes Heads Arts Congress, Art Seminar; Display Here, Obscene Concept is Lecture Topic, Faculty/Staff Motor Vehicle Registration is Underway, Goldfarb to Report on Spiritualism, Fred Waring at Miller, Biofeedback Conference Monday, Woman Admiral Visits Campus, Salvage Seminar Underway Here, How to Avert Info Chaos

Housing As A Process Of Community Development, Gary D. Askerooth

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this essay, I shall outline a strategy that could lead to the initial stages of developing a society in which human needs are not dependent on residuals from the market. By using cooperative, mutual selfhelp methods to develop local community power, we may provide examples applicable to other sectors as well.

Maximizing The Impact Of An Alternative Agency, Miriam Galper, Carolyn Kott Washburne

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In the late 1960's and early 1970's the energy for change generated by the civil rights, black power and women's movements strongly affected many professionals working in social welfare agencies. Individually or with others in agencies, caucuses and unions, these radical professionals began to question the services provided by their agencies, the social and political functions of those agencies, and the part they played in their agencies. They began to critique the social welfare system in the United States and to develop some perspectives on what social services could be like if the country were truly committed to improving human …

The Rank And File Movement: The Relevance Of Radical Social Work Traditions To Modern Social Work Practice, Leslie Leighninger, Robert Knickmeyer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social work, like many fields, has sometimes suffered from an inadequate and distorted understanding of its own history. A profession's inattention to its past is an unfortunate thing. As Clark Chambers has noted, the study of social work history provides models for social work practice and yields insights into social processes (31 11-22). Works like Cloward and Piven's Regulating the Poor have demonstrated the rich potential of the social welfare case study for social analyses (4). In addition, examination of goals and motivations of specific social workers in the past have served to further our understanding of professional issues and …

Comunication Disturbances In A Welfare Bureaucracy: A Case For Self Management, Robert E. O'Conner, Larry D. Spence

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The survey data in this study of 1313 caseworkers and income-maintenance workers of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare provide some elements of a description of white-collar alienation in government bureaucracies. We interpret our findings to indicate that the hierarchical communication network of this department operates to deny implicitly the worth and intelligence of workers. As perceived by employees, the general pattern of message construction, message transmission and message acknowledgment takes no account of their needs for information and validation nor does it allow the information generated at the work place to be fed back to the administration. Thus, the …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, No. 2 (November 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

ISSUE EDITOR: JEFFRY GALPER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Editorial - pp. 164
• The Rank and File Movement: The Relevance of Radical Social Work Traditions to Modern Social Work Practice - LESLIE LEIGHNINGER & ROBERT KNICKMEYER - pp. 166
• Communication Disturbances in a Welfare Bureaucracy: A Case for Self-Management - ROBERT E. O'CONNOR & LARRY D. SPENCE - pp. 178
• The Politics of Drug Addiction: A Comparison of United States and Chinese Drug Policies Since 1949 - RICHARD FORTMANN - pp. 205
• Housing as a Process of Community Development GARY D. ASKEROTH - pp. 218
• Central Appalachia: A Peripheral Region …

The Politics Of Drug Addiction: A Comparison Of United States And Chinese Drug Policies Since 1949, Richard Fortmann

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

During the past decade the increase in drug use and drug addiction in the United States has been viewed with growing alarm. Drug addiction has been compared to a contagious disease, an epidemic which is raging in our cities and towns. Although the rhetoric has become more dramatic, the drug problem is certainly not a new one. This paper is concerned with the historic failure of United States policies to eliminate or even to contain drug abuse and drug addiction. It is the central thesis of this paper that drug addiction is a social disease, and as such is symptomatic …

Radicalism In Casework, Philip Lichtenberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social casework seems always in tension between some inherent tendency to be radical in a social and political way and a comparable drive to hold on to the established modes of life that are conventional and conservative. The profession has never pretended to be value-free, and within the values held forth resides this tension to which I refer. Similarly, social casework has long been a socially activist field -- as simple comparison with any other accepted profession readily demonstrates -- and in its assertive endeavors this same combination of radical and conservative tendencies can be identified. To a radical, such …

Social Work Practice As Collective Experience, Harvey Finkle, Jeffry Galper, Philip Lichtenberg, Jack Sternbach

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This is an account of four workers in the human services who have developed an ongoing collective experience. The four of us, all white, professional social workers, drew together in the late Spring, 1972. We were all involved in academic life, primarily as social work professors, although one of us was detaching himself from academic life at that time.

Integrated Cooperation Within A Grass-Roots Movement’S The Class Emphasis, John C. Leggett, Frances V. Mouldner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Under what conditions is it possible for members of different racial groups to cooperate in an integrated sense to build a successful, working class, community based, mutual benefits association -- one with the long-term intent of organizing workplaces where mutual-benefits association members happen to work? Can this inter-racial cooperation occur at all levels of the organization? Given this long term possibility of unionization, an end product not too different from an association-union recently achieved by Caesar Chavez's "NFWA-UFVOC", what are the initial organizational prerequisites for successfully bringing together blacks, whites, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and others within these local associations?

Western News, October 28, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: UT Presents 'Raisin’ Nov. 3-6, Northern Ireland; Humanistic Sociology Lectures Tuesday, Parent's Day Program Set, Flu Vaccine is Available, Greenberg to Give Keynote Address, Miller Stages 'Music Man', British Library Head to Visit, Withdraw Unfair Labor Charges, Ohio Gridders Here Saturday, Intramural News, Wisconsin Parkside Entertains Booters, Korean Conference Here, Sara Swickard Preschool is Active Center

Western News, October 21, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Salary Needs Critical, Class Schedules; Phone Directory Due Next Week, Economic Series Features Blough, Reports Affirmative Action Progress, Faculty/Staff Motor Vehicle Registration November 1-16, Review Graduate Education Study, Trustees Approve 5-Year Capital Request Totaling $69.4 Million, Mannix on Regional Workshop Programs, Band Day Show Set, Siebert Lectures; Publishes Article, Reaccredit WMU Counseling Center, Establish Crime Prevention Bureau, 'Involving Kids' Conference Here

Western News, October 14, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Five Teaching Awards Given, Two Join President's Club, Two Homecoming Dances Slated, Primitive Tribe Warfare Lecture; Movie Tuesday, ‘Night Music' at Auditorium, Horst to Report on Catastrophes, Adams' Love Letters in Reader's Theatre, Wife Beating is Series Topic, Homecoming Parade Saturday, Paolo Soleri to Speak, Police Acquire Additional Radar, Faculty Book Fair on Campus, Toledo is Bronco Homecoming Foe

Western News, October 7, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Conference to Examine Morality of Ceasing Life 'Support Steps’, Directed Teaching Sets Meetings, Campus Ministry Offer Workshop, Offer Course for Undecided Student, Social Work Receives Grant, 'Naughty Marietta' On Oct. 13, Career Day Here Today, Computer Center to Purge Disk, Fountain' Fest Here Sunday, Ham Radio Conference Here, World Politics Symposium Set, KSO Begins 55th Season, Remind Faculty of Student Rights, Homecoming Pop Show Features Convy; Knight, Remind Students of Special Awards, WMU Students Earned $3.1 Million-Last Year, Trustees Approve WMU Foundation, Explain Job Listing Schedule, Kennett Joins Athletic Staff

The Informant Volume Ix, Number 1 Bientennial Issue, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume IX, Number 1

Bicentennial Issue

Fall 1976

• Samuel Greene: First Transformationalist?
• New Students in Linguistics Programs (33)
• Recent Graduates (12)
• Visiting Scholar
• Linguistics Department Winter 1977
• Call for Papers

University Magazine Vol. 2 No. 3, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters
• The State of the University
• Graduate Education at Western Michigan University
• Whither We Go?
• An Alumnus' Advice at Christmastime
• On Campus
• Teaching Excellence Awards
• Homecoming '76
• Recommended Reading
• Distinguished Alumni Awards
• Alumni News
• Estate Planning Ideas
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Learning Modality: Another Pebble In The Pond, Diana Scott

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Approaches for teaching reading, as found in the plethora of reading materials now available, have become increasingly diversified. Audio materials have been added to several major reading programs. Kinesthetic materials are now provided for some programs. Many authors of reading programs are now reluctant to rely on "visual only" cues for teaching the numerous reading skills.

Reading In The Secondary School: Teaching Students How To Add Words To Their Vocabulary, Part I, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is not difficult to collect a number of statements by the experts on why we must teach vocabulary growth. Words are the tools of communication, and, words are units out of which we build all thought and philosophy. Those are the truisms of yesterday, too old to attribute to a single person, and seldom thought about in today's world. Here is a thought by an expert today—"The substrata-factor research by Holmes and Singer indicates that vocabulary deserves predominant emphasis, since it contributes 51 percent to reading speed —far more than any other first-order factor." (James I. Brown, "Increasing Reading …

R> S1 + S2 + S3 +…Sn, Richard T. Vacca, Jerry L. Johns

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Proponents of a psychometric view of reading support the notion that there are identifiable "skills." These skills portray a compact picture of reading that underlies both its measurement and its teaching.

Black Dialect In Children's Books, Melvin W. Wells

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Black non-Standard English is different in grammar (syntax) from Standard English. The advent of the 60's produced authors who explored the full possibilities of language to deal with their themes. The increased use of dialect by black authors, particularly children's authors, was a sign that the nature of the black experience as they wanted to convey it did not have to rely on traditional forms, and literary devices; that they could treat familiar, realistic ideas and situations using a familiar dialect and relate that idea more effectively.

Eliminate Discipline Problems Through Grouping, George M. Usova

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A troublesome issue that many teachers face is getting their students to complete in-class discussions or writing assignments. When students work independently on a task, many are likely to be lost or uninterested in what they are doing and become frustrated. This frustration leads to despair, resignation or hostility, which in turn can cause discipline problems.

Assessment And Supervision Of The Field Experience Of A Competency Based Reading Methods Course, Martha Dillner

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

When the University of Houston committed itself to competency-based, field and campus-centered teacher education over eight years ago, the reading methods courses were primarily campus-centered and included lecture and discussion over assigned reading in a reading methods textbook. In an effort to be compatible with the field-centered focus of the College, a more intensive field-experience component was added to the reading methods course. This addition accentuated the need for a changed format which would be more consistent with a field-based program. The textbooks which had been used previously presented applications of the theory and practice of teaching reading, but did …

Philosophical And Cultural Perspectives On Reading, Nathan Kroman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Candor requires that I disclaim any real expertise in the educational specialty of reading instruction. This probably accounts for my writing about it with such sublime confidence. I do, however, believe that I know how to read. Moreover I have related to large numbers of people who are representative of many and diverse occupational and regional sub-cultures across the United States and Canada all of whom believe that they know how to read. These people typically exhibit a rather particular pattern of thinking styles. Since thinking is related to language and language is related to reading and since they all …