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Studies, Programs, And Good Intentions, Gilda M. Greenberg

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The University and the Urban Crisis; Volume 2, Community Psychology Series, Edited by Howard Mitchell and Daniel Adelson; Behavioral Publications, N.Y., 216 pp., August 1974.

This small book sponsored by the Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association, presents thirteen university- based personnel who consider the unique position of the university in sharing its expertise for solving the social problems of the urban community.

General Education: Let's Be Specific!, C. Edwin Howard

Perspectives (1969-1979)

To many of those who have been vitally interested in the advancement of General Education over a period of years , it seems that much has been written, and more said, of the philosophy of General Education but considerably less about the specifics of its implementation. It is without question that the philosophy of general studies is essential to the planning of an educational program. Also, few would deny the necessity for the continuous promulgation of that philosophy. But for those who have accepted the general philosophy of General Education, whether long ago or recently, there is the continuing and …

Is The Lifeboat Leaking, John Hicks

Perspectives (1969-1979)

What liberalizing educational course or curriculum is good for a student? Will the student see the opportunity inherent in a course if it assumes a degree of comprehension he hasn't yet been educated to? Will it do him good if he can't or won't grasp it now?

Can colleges start all over at the existent level, give elementary training, and yet arrive at language mastery and disciplined thinking and esthetic sensitivity? Can we ask a chronologically mature matriculant to defer graduation until still later? Or are the lost quite lost?

If, then, a student is free to elect, with few …

The University As Asylum, Francis L. Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The word "asylum" has indeed a variety of meanings. It is an ambiguous term. It has been used to denote both places of confinement for mentally unbalanced folk as well as a sanctuary affording security and protection for those in need. The purpose of this essay is to see the large state university as a sanctuary for young people. It is primarily concerned with undergraduate students as persons undergoing crises of identity. It seeks to clarify strategies and goals for professors in dealing with these students. The ambiguity of the term "asylum" suggests, however, the possibility that the large state …

General Education: A Learner's Viewpoint, Eugene Wine

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Most of the articles we read about general education are written by those who either teach or administer some kind of general education program. I think it might be valuable to know the viewpoint of someone who has been trying to educate himself generally throughout a lifetime.

The interdisciplinary courses which many schools now have seem to me to be a great improvement over the general education program which prevailed in my undergraduate days , which was the still quite prevalent one of a certain number of credit hours in the various academic divisions. My feeling is, however, that one …

General Education As An Alternative To Liberal Education, Raymond Kolcaba

Perspectives (1969-1979)

At the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College, the campus community as a whole has taken seriously the district-wide commitment to general education. Rather than spell out the nature of general education , the campus president left the concept open-ended and invited faculty to discover its meaning through their own experiments and innovative efforts. Issues shrouding the role of schools are at times distilled into two views.

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Behaviorism In The Classroom: It Seems To Work, Milton Kornfeld

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In trying to find a better way to motivate and evaluate my students, what I did last year was, essentially, to borrow an idea which appeared in Change Magazine (April, 1973) under the title "Behaviorism in the Classroom," by Elaine G. Breslaw. Ms. Breslaw teaches history at Morgan State College in Baltimore, and her description of student behavior at this predominantly black school indicated that her students were enough like my own to warrant consideration of this approach to motivating and evaluating students. In regard to her students Ms. Breslaw's concerns were not dissimilar from my own:

"I wanted to …

A Clockwork Course, Harvey Overton

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We can now forget a career of anxious Mondays, or returning to the classroom after a week-end of fretting about how to get our students to grasp some concept in aesthetics or epistemology. Our course objectives are stated with precision. Learning is administered in graded doses, with students unfailingly advancing from stage to stage as they are positively reinforced for productive responses. As classroom managers (in another era we were called teachers) we assiduously avoid strategies producing aversive reactions, knowing that they are counterproductive. Instead, we engineer relevant contingencies that generate the behaviors that are visibly effective. And all the …

The Academic Meritocracy: Its Origins And Future, David Katz

Perspectives (1969-1979)

"Virtue," Emerson assures us, "is the only reward of virtue." Yet , as every academic knows , this seemingly elementary axiom has long been obsolete. Indeed , the very meaning of virtue has changed since Emerson's day, when the concept referred to a quality of being acquired through intense introspection and manifested in one's daily relations with others. As currently defined in the academy virtue is simultaneously more tangible and more prosaic. It is the status one acquires through the accumulation of certain types of credits: assignment to prestigious committees, active participation at professional meetings and, especially, a suitably impressive …

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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The Student: His Self-Satisfaction And His Sense Of Permanency, John Bevan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Seaborg went on to say: "Let me be quite realistic as I turn to the one force which I believe can do most to help us understand ourselves in society or help us create and fulfill the highest goals which a Cybernetic Revolution might offer. I believe that force is education and that the university should play the leading role." He concluded that in the short decades ahead, there must be a huge re-evaluation of the goals and values of our society and it will be in our universities where such a re-evaluation takes place.

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1975-76, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Self-Defeating Characters, Milton R. Cudney

All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

For some time I have been aware of a need to have additional ways of helping people open up to see what they do to defeat themselves. The need is to help people see, and honestly face, what they do to bring about defeating results in their lives. When people can see what they do to defeat themselves, they are in a better position to make non-defeating choices. The various characters in this book have been created by me to serve as vehicles to fulfill this need. The characters themselves do not represent real individual people, but the information contained …

Horizons Of Reading Education: Self-Image And The Disabled Reader, William L. Holladay

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Every teacher, whether a reading teacher or a content area teacher, has had the problem of teaching disabled readers and has found to his dismay that not only must a learning disability be confronted, but that often a major portion of this learning disability involves the student's self-image or emotional self-concept. Frustration results for both the teacher and student. There seem to be no magic formulae for treatment of this problem, but many teachers are finding some very creative solutions. Ms. Shirley Madsen, a reading teacher in Helena, Montana is one such teacher.

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1975, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 17
  • February 21
  • March 21
  • April 25
  • May 16
  • June 20
  • August 22
  • September 26
  • October 17
  • November 21
  • December 19
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April, 1975
  • August, 1975
  • December, 1975
• INDEX

Reading In The Secondary School: A Self-Help Reading Laboratory, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Movements to begin all-school reading programs often wait for the right set of circumstances and may be in the planning stages while hundreds of students are missing the spark they might provide. We should think of a means of setting some of the wheels turning, even if the school does not seem ready for all phases to be put into action. It is a sad fact that many high schools have nothing approaching an emphasis on reading; therefore, there is nothing to call teachers' attention to the importance of improving reading skills in every class. If no one takes responsibility …

A Family Affair: Pampangan Hukism, James P. Hardy

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western News, December 12, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: To Examine Tuition Plans, Faculty Booklet Analyzes Area, 'Met' Greats; Tucker & Merrill; To Perform Jan. 8 at Miller, To Perform; Discuss Two Zupko Compositions On National Radio, Retiring Dean Maus Comments On Student Attitudes; Sports; Future, Anthropology Offers Three New Courses

Western News, December 5, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New Music Festival On, Poet Wendell Berry Visits Here Friday, C/T Appeals Being Heard, Visitor To 'Skin' Skinner Tonight, Placement Center Still Has Many Job Opportunities for Teachers, Friday American Criminology Y.P., McGranahan Heads State Slavic Group, October Gifts & Grants Total $243,312; Trustees Approve Pooled Income Fund, VanDeVenter to Retire; Change Title

Ozonation Of Secondary Effluent For Color Removal, Michael Patton

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of various ozone concentrations when applied to secondary kraft effluent in regards to color removal. The influence of effluent temperature upon the color removal capabilities of ozone was also investigated to determine the optimal ozone reaction temperature or the temperature which would result in the greatest color reduction at a given ozone concentration.

The study was conducted by injecting ozone at three different concentrations of 20, 30 and 40 mg/liter into a temperature controlled column of secondary kraft effluent obtained from S.D. Warren Company in Muskegon, Michigan. The temperature was …

A Comparison Of Changes In Student Responses To Counselor Education, Rosemary Mccauley Morley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Benton Harbor Area Schools Major Internship, Edwin R. Dass

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effect Of "Stressors" On Corticosteroid-Binding Globulin Activity In The Rat During Pregnancy, Muhammad Nasir Hussain

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Spin-Flip In 12C (P,P') 12C Near The 9.14 Mev Doublet, John Ambani Muhanji

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Couple Awareness And Communication, Gary Johnson

Honors Theses

Along with many other psychologists and sociologists, I am alarmed by the rapid increase in divorce rates. Toffler, in Future Shock, suggests one result of increasing technology might be the break up of the basic family unit. Gone are the days of the average couple meeting and settling down in the same town they have always lived in, surrounded by a secure and stable milieu. No longer are most women satisfied to take on the role of housewife, accepting their main responsibility as cleaning, cooking, and clothing their families. A marriage in our increasingly changing society is made up of …

Feeling Good And Helping: Really?, Gregory A. Blevins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Short Forms Of The Mmpi, William M. Skinner

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Aspects Of Habitat Selection In Grassland Birds, Keith Graham Harrison

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Approach To A Kalamazoo Metropolitan Data Bank And Information System, Alan Benjamin Le Coff

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.