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University Magazine Vol. 31 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• Retired Professors
• David Quint Was Not A Name
• The Healing Generation
• WMU Sports
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Developing General Studies: Recollections Of A General Studies Chairman, Benjamin P. Mehrling

Perspectives (1969-1979)

1) General Studies as Introductory Studies

2) General Studies Courses as Common Studies

3) General Studies as Survey Studies

4) General Studies as Nondepartmental Studies

5) General Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies

Developing Relationships Between Two-Year And Four-Year Colleges, Richard E. Wilson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Featured Address of this issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

This is a time of crisis, a crisis of immediate and direct concern to us- to all people who are interested in general education, in liberal learning, in educating people for a free society, and in the development of liberated, liberal, humane persons.

Shifting Ideals In Higher Education, Frederick F. Ritsch

Perspectives (1969-1979)

If a controlled equalitarian democracy is a real or even a present danger in higher education, then those in the academic professions should move now to at least clarify the meaning of a higher education. This could mean a much greater vigilance with regard to what is included under the heading of a university degree; it should certainly mean reconsideration of some areas which now receive higher education validation. It would mean our classrooms be less concerned with reinforcing the immediate than with the identification and elaboration of new and more productive modes of living. It would demand that higher …

Tarrant County Junior College's Program Of General Education, Charles N. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 3

I hate to start out on a negative note, but I must say that it is entirely possible (and I'll include our programs at Tarrant County Junior College) that community colleges have probably never tried general education. General education, of course, has many interpretations and definitions, but the one I'm speaking of we haven't yet tried.

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 1 And Supplement No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Volume 5 No. 1 Spring 1973

Supplement No. 1 Summer 1973

Don't Just Talk About It, Daniel R. Kroll

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Like the weather, everyone seems to be talking about General Education but no one seems to be doing anything about it. For that matter many administrators wonder just what General Education really is. When an educator can remark that "General Education is anything outside a student's major," it is time for a redefinition of the constituent which distinguishes a baccalaureate degree from a trade school diploma.

Program Of Agls Annual Meeting

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Thursday, October 18th

Friday, October 19th

Saturday, October 20th

General Information

The Association for General and Liberal Studies

The University Of Utah's Program Of General Education, Oakley J. Gordon

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 1

In order to present an idea of the course which the University of Utah has followed in regard to general education, Professor Gordon first read a portion of a paper which he had presented at a meeting of the American Association for Higher Education in 1970. See what he said in 1970, and then see what kind of prophet he was in …

The Presence And Promise Of The New Consciousness, Benjamin Mehrling

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The counter culture controversy-that is, the claims and denials over the arrival of a new kind of person, a new breed, a new sensibility- widely discussed in the late sixties, has reached a new level of intensity. The critics are now taking the initiative, putting forward arguments intended to show either that the youth movement has been faddish, ladened with contradictions, and a luxury of the "elitists," or that it never did exist except in the imaginations and wishes of its identifiers and "discoverers."

I believe the critics have largely failed to take into account just what the discoverers of …

Jonathan Harvey Coxgull: An Experiment In College Teaching, Francis L. Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

As a postscript I might add that my description of our classroom was not a chance prescript to this essay. It was intended as a symbol. It is a symbol of impersonality and sameness. My students study and live and eat in a decor similar to that room. There are roughly 20,000 of them at my school. They are strangers both to me and to each other on the first day of class each semester. If I am to get them to share experiences, and hence to aid each other in the learning process, I must somehow be an agent …

Creating A Climate For Learning (A Human Relations Approach), Robert W. Hayes, William E. Davis

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Studies seem to indicate that the traditional aptitudinal criteria for predicting academic success are severely limited in their ability to predict those who will succeed and those who will not succeed at the college level.

Underpinnings For A "University Education", Charles O. Houston

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Environmental Essays on the Planet as a Home, by Paul Shepard and Daniel McKinely (editors), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971, 307 pp., Illus.

The Social Question In Liberal Education, Dale Porter

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In her book On Revolution (1965) Hannah Arendt makes a distinction between liberation and freedom which I want to relate to the function of liberal education in contemporary American society. The dilemma implied by that relation was developed by my students in a recent class discussion; it is on their behalf that I present it here.

Faculty Senate Yearbook, 1973-74, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1973, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 19
  • February 16
  • March 16
  • April 20
  • May 18
  • June 15
  • July 20
  • August 17
  • September 21
  • October 26
  • November 16
  • December 19
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES AND AWARDS
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April, 1973
  • August, 1973
  • December, 1973
• INDEX

The Procedural Comparison Method Of Performance Analysis For Comprehensive Community Colleges, Robert Walter Pricer

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reading Tests Don't Really Tell It Like It Is, George D. Masters

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading, at one time the hallmark of the educated man, is now the bugbear of the modem school. In other ages it was recognized that there were some children who didn't want to read, never wanted to read, and never would want to read. Today, such a student is spurred, goaded, and hounded till he either learns to read for self preservation, drops out of school, or confronted with failure, lets the world see the only R's he has learned, the wrong R's-resistance, rejection, and rebellion.

Echoes From The Field, Joe R. Chapel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development is being implemented in the Niles, Michigan, School System in grades K-3. This design has been developed by the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, supported in part by funds from the United States Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Imbedding Problems In Graph Theory, William Goodwin

Honors Theses

For some years there has been interest among mathematicians in determining the different ways in which certain graphs can be imbedded in given surfaces. M.P. VanStraten in 1948, determined that it is possible to imbed the graph K_3,3 (which is the graph representing the famous three houses, three utilities problem) in the torus in only two ways. She then used this fact to show that the graph representing the configuration of Desargues (containing K_3,3 as a subgraph) has genus two. One major source of motivation for the work on imbedding problems has been their relation to coloring problems …

Psychic Wholeness In Blake And Jung, Walter B. Gallant

Honors Theses

There is no doubt that for most modern readers the work of William Blake is an enigma. I should like to suggest that the work of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung offers one way to bring a sense of order and meaning to Blake's work.

The Socializer, December 1, 1972, Department Of Sociology

The Socializer

Volume 1, Number 8 of the Socializer, published December 1, 1972.

The Analysis Of Three Narrow Resonances Observed In Protons On Oxygen-16, Benjamin Y. J. Tan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Bibliographical Survey Of The West Indian Novel, Ruta Mara Sani

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

L' Homme Robbe-Grilletien: Une Vision Subconsciente Du Monde, Monica E. Nahm

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Quantitative Analysis By Emission Spectroscopy Of The Metallic Constituents Of Biological Samples After Treatment By A Carcinogenic Agent, Charles R. Frydrych

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Reliability Study Of A Sew System For Coding Family Therapists' Verbalizations, Judith Mayerovitch

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Personal Naming Customs In Medieval Poitou, Eleanor Louise Krawutschke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Perspectives Vol. 4 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives consists of papers and discussions from the Annual meeting of AGLS of Rochester Institute of Technology, Oct. 26-28, 1972.

The Effect Of Stereoelectronic Control And Long Range Interaction On The Stability Of Bicyclic Enolate Anions, Edwin M. Van Dam

Dissertations

No abstract provided.