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Western News, May 13, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Sandberg to Be Given Honorary Degree, Report on Board of Trustees, University to Receive Records, Set July 1 Deadline for Research Grants, Spring Session Enrollment Announced, Former Health Center Physician Dies, Tuba Featured in Chamber Music Recital, Awareness is Theme of Meeting, Hospital Fund Drive Pledges Needed, Announce Job Hunting Seminars

Western News, May 6, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Report on April Board Meeting, President Reports on 1975-76, Three Honorary Degrees Awarded, Elect New Officers, Report on April Board Meeting, Announce Spring Chamber Music Recital, Civil Rights Leaders Here This Week, Instructional Position Openings

Differential Utilization Of The Health Care Delivery System By Members Of Ethnic Minorities, Patricia A. Brown

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Research and statistical reports of the 1960's strongly attested to the underutilization of the health care delivery system by members of ethnic minorities. For example, a 1968 national report on hospital utilization showed that a larger proportion of white persons was hospitalized than were persons of 'color.'I This was found to be true regardless of sex and age; but "... as family income increased, the rate for white persons and those of other races became closer." This fact not withstanding, each income level saw whites using hospitalization more than persons of 'color.' Reasons for this difference in utilization were offered …

Consultation As A Mode Of Field Instruction, Frank B. Raymond

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In recent years both pedagogical and pragmatic considerations have prompted numerous experiments in field instruction for social work education. A novel approach used by one school is based on a consultation model. In this mode of field instruction a faculty based field instructor serves as a consultant to the student placed in a community agency. The relationship between consultee and consultant is distinctly different from that which exists between a student and a "teacher," "instructor," or "supervisor" in traditional field placements. Rather than a hierarchical, obligatory relationship, there exists between consultant and consultee a coordinate, facultative relationship in which the …

Upward Mobility Potential Attitudes Toward Mental Illness And Working-Class Youth, Gary Rosenberg, Honey A. Mendelson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The investigators were interested in assessing the relationship between upward mobility potential and attitudes toward mental illness. For the 147 male adolescents studied, it was hypothesized that those working-class youth who demonstrated a high predictability of future upward social mobility would score more liberally on the five factors of the Opinions about Mental Illness Scale than those working-class youth who demonstrated a low predictability of future upward social mobility. Through the use of the aforementioned scale, the Otis Quick Scoring Mental Ability Test and Zero Order Correlations, the hypothesized relationship was confirmed; i.e., the upwardly mobile group was significantly more …

Community Planning Organizations Coping With Their Problems: The Case Of The Welfare Council, Fred M. Cox, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Community welfare councils, sharply attacked in the 1960's, have survived, while many of their competitors have lost ground. Understanding their survival may help community planning agencies and planners. This study combines data from a survey of community welfare councils with data from a longitudinal study of a single council. The basic problem of councils is conceptualized as value precariousness, following Clark and Selznick, and data are provided that tend to confirm the existence of this problem among councils. The ways in which councils cope with the problem are described in some detail. Finally, the findings are compared with three similar …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• An Examination of "Right to Treatment" Standards: Mental Health Policy Within The Context of The State Hospital System - KATHRYN GLASS - pp.492
• Differential Utilization of the Health Care Delivery System by Members of Ethnic Minorities - PATRICIA A. BROWN - pp.516
• Community Planning Organizations Coping With Their Problems: The Case of The Welfare Council - FRED M. COX, JOHN E. TROPMAN - pp.524
• Community Organization Practice: An Elaboration of Rothman's Typology - JERRY D. STOCKDALE - pp.541
• Dilemmas of Planning and Self-Determination - CHARLES D. COWGER - pp. 552
• The Practice Implications of Interorganizational Theory For …

Eleventh Conference On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 11th Conference on Medieval Studies (May 2-5, 1976).

Community Organization Practice: An Elaboration Of Rothman's Typology, Jerry D. Stockdale

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Four change approaches encompass much purposive social change at the community level: locality development, traditional planning, advocacy planning and social action. Locality development and traditional planning are similar on at least six dimensions, as are advocacy planning and social action. On two other dimensions similarities exist between locality development and social action and between traditional planning and advocacy planning. If social change practitioners are to select the most effective strategies for the situations in which they will act, it is essential that they understand the characteristics and assumptions of these approaches.

An Examination Of "Right To Treatment" Standards: Mental Health Policy Within The Context Of The State Hospital System, Kathryn Glass

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper discusses the use of court-imposed standards for public mental hospitals as a method of improving public mental health services. The standards set out in Wyatt v. Stickney are examined, and the author concludes that if implemented nationally such standards would transform the public hospitals. In addition, implementation would alter the power structure of mental health workers, effect the allocation of state and federal funds, and influence the larger system of mental health services. Socio-economic characteristics of public mental hospital patients, and an assessment of present care in this system are presented as central issues in mental health policy …

Dilemmas Of Planning And Self-Determination, Charles D. Cowger

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Self-determination is examined as the premier social work value. It is argued in this paper that the positive or negative impact of planning is dependent on who is planning what for whom, and that not planning may be a more serious threat to self-determination than planning.

The Practice Implications Of Interorganizational Theory For Services Integration, Nancy Runkle Hooyman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The interorganizational theories of Litwak and Rothman and Levine and White are utilized to suggest the need for practitioners, involved in services integration efforts, to consider the situational variables of size, resources, awareness of interdependence, and type of task exchanged. The effect of these variables upon the formality and autonomy of linkage mechanisms between human service agencies is illustrated in terms of a regional services integration project in Minnesota. Implications are presented for practitioners who are attempting to coordinate services.

The Welfare Poor: Patterns Of Association And Interaction In Discretionary Time, Francis P. Noe, Kirk Elifson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The welfare poor in America are classified into a "subterranean' strata not solely because of economic inequality but entrenched by racial ethnicity, age disadvantages, physical and psychological impairment, and broken family structures. While the misery and plight of the poor are often recognized in basic terms in which the survival necessity of food, clothing, health care, and shelter are real concerns, seemingly other less important cultural considerations are glossed over as trivia. Leisure participation continues to be neglected by researchers and because of this low priority, little or nothing is known of the leisure life style of the poor. Less …

The Living Together Arrangement: Social Work And The Lost Client, Robert W. Weinbach, Anne C. Blankenship, Sarah M. Friedman, Judy C. Rutledge, Claudia A. Thompson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A recent research study suggests that persons living together outside of marriage do not view social work services as a potential source of help for problems brought into the living together arrangement, those common to all intimate long-range dyadic relationships or those directly related to choice of lifestyle. A multi-faceted approach is suggested which would aim at reaching this potential client group in a climate which will neither stigmatize or judge the alternate lifestyle or the persons who practice it.

Western News, April 21, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Three Persons to Receive Honorary Degrees Saturday, Trustees May Act on Fee Hikes Friday, Anthropology Dept. Plans Ethnographic Field Research, Korean Institute Here, Institutional Beige Is Dead, North Central Geological Society To Meet at Western April 28-May 1, University Safety Policy, National Institute On Desegregation Here May 7-8, Medieval Studies 11th Conference to Convene Here May 2-5, International Social Workers; Youth Leaders Visit Here

Western News, April 15, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Juvenile Court Training Seminar Here Next Week, Old Music Society Meets, Mexican Institute Honors Gault, WMU's Bicentennial Vaudeville Show Wagon Goes on the Road, Open Legal Education Center, Appoint Three Chairmen; Counseling Center Director, Broncos Enter Buckeye Relays, Pinocchio Coming Here

Western News, April 8, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU Responds to AAUP, AAUP Elects New Officers, Secretaries Exam Here, Mortar Board Taps 25; Including First Men Members, Bosses Day Lunch Features Winning Bicentennial Speech, Award Honors Schoenhals, Management Workshops for Women Set, WMU Hosts Business Law Conference

American Revolution Bicentennial: Faculty Recognition Dinner 1976, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976

Faculty Recognition Dinner

Thursday, April 8, 1976

Honored Retirees:

• Ada E. Berkey
• Leonard Gernant
• Dr. Herbert H. Hannon
• Dr. Elizabeth Johnson
• Mrs. Dorotha Kercher
• Mrs. Opal K. Klammer
• Dr. Stephen I. Kukolich
• Dr. Jean M. Lawrence
• Dr. Arthur J. Manske
• Olive Parkes
• Neil L. Schoenhals
• Thomas C. Slaughter
• Emil J. Sokolowski
• Dr. Sara Jane Stroud
• Dr. Sara R. Swickard
• Dr. Betty Taylor
• Lois Van Den Berg
• Dr. Charles Van Riper
• Mary M. Wilcox

Western News, April 1, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Briefs, Offer Masters in Biostatistics, Luce Comedy Season Finale, Propose Fee Increases, B. F. Skinner; Two Others to Get Honorary Doctorates, Grant 10 Emeritus Status, Set Multiclinic Session Friday, Eli Lilly Executive to Visit Western Campus on April 8, Name Shilts Head Coach, Gymnastics Festival April 12

University Magaizine Vol. 2 No.1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• A Message from the President • Letters • "Dean of People" • 1975 Annual Report to Investors • On Campus • Alumni • From the Alumni Director's Desk • Bronco Sports • Class Notes • In Memoriam

Professional Concerns, R. Baird Shuman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Professional Concerns is a column new to the pages of Reading Horizons. Its purpose is to promote dialogue and an exchange of ideas among those concerned with reading instruction at all levels. Comments about reading instruction are invited. Those who have questions which they would like to have answered by someone uniquely qualified to provide answers are urged to send their questions to the editor who will pass them on to an expert in the field for response.

A New Study Habits Inventory: Description And Utilization, Mark E. Thompson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Study habits inventories have successfully identified a proclivity for academic achievement not accounted for by ability. These inventories may be identifying a motivational trait that is difficult to chart by using traditional ability measures. The concept of motivation is quite difficult to pin down, and professional educators often turn to their particular notions of motivation when explaining success or failure. Motivation has been characterized as a conceptual charlady widely used for sweeping up variance in academic attainment unaccounted for by traditional intellectual or educational variables (Entwistle, et ai., 1974).

Humanism In Teaching, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Administrators Can Help Meet Reading Improvement Objectives, Roger H. Garvelink

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Total commitment to the improvement of the reading skills of our elementary and middle school students resulted from a performance objective initially set by our Board of Education. In some way all staff members were involved in the improvement of delivery systems and assessment programs.

Some Semantics Of Basic Word Lists, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Lists of words compiled on the basis of their frequency of occurrence in writings of various kinds have long been considered "basic" materials for reading instruction. It is said teachers should use such lists because the child best learns to read if the order of the words presented to him for this purpose is governed by the relative frequency words occur in written materials. Put another way, it is argued that if word A occurs more often in written matter of different types than does word B it then should be presented for a child to learn to read before …

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

John B. Carroll and Jeanne S. Chall (editors). 1975. "Toward a Literate Society."

Ten-Second Reviews

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 3.

Reading And The Bicentennial Celebration, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Real functional American citizenship should be appreciated and stressed more in our schools. Many children lack an understanding of the history and government of their city, state and nation. Our National Bicentennial Celebration is a very appropriate time to instill in these youngsters this knowledge in a fascinating manner. It is a time to motivate them to read the stirring accounts of our country's past. It is a time for awareness of the significant contributions of prominent leaders and their impact upon our present city, state and union.

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Graduate Catalog 1976-1977 , Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• Section I: General Policies and Procedures • Section II: Master's Degree Programs and Requirements • Section III: Specialist Degree Programs and Requirements • Section IV: Doctoral Degree Programs and Requirements • Section V: Description of Graduate Courses • Section VI: The Graduate Faculty