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Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, April 14, 1995

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on April 14, 1995.

National Research Priorities For Organization Development, William Alan Croft

Master of Psychology Theses

An exploratory study was conducted to create a near future needs-based list of national research priorities for Organization Development. Brainstorming surveys were mailed to Organization Development practitioners and academics throughout the United States. Their responses were rated and categorized by recent graduates and students nearing graduation respectively in Central Washington University's Master of Science in Organization Development. The rated responses and categories were ranked, creating a list of national research priorities for Organization Development. This list is accessible to academics, students, consultants and others interested in conducting Organization Development relevant research. Opportunities for closing the gap between Organization Development science …

Clemson Catalog, 1995-1996, Volume 70, Clemson University

Clemson Catalog (undergraduate announcements)

No abstract provided.

The Crisis Of Perception In Education: The Scientific And Historic Evolution Of Systemic Educational Reform, Cynthia C. Phillips

Masters Theses

This study presents a literature synthesis that pertains to the evolution of systemic reform. A hermeneutic and heuristic template illuminates the historical tapestry of educational reform. Examination of the antecedents of four waves of educational reform, indicates that an impending paradigmatic shift parallels and perhaps prompts the evolution of systemic reform. The learning organization metaphor builds the synthesis for the following supposition: the history and philosophy of science drive the construction and deconstruction of mental models held by society. The crisis of perception alludes to the possibility that current mental models, established under the Newtonian paradigm, serve to motivate dysfunctional …

Exceptions And Exception Handling In Computerized Information Processes, Diane M. Strong, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Exceptions, situations that cannot be correctly processed by computer systems, occur frequently in computer-based information processes. Five perspectives on exceptions provide insights into why exceptions occur and how they might be eliminated or more efficiently handled. We investigate these perspectives using an in-depth study of an operating information process that has frequent exceptions. Our results support the use of a total quality management (TQM) approach of eliminating exceptions for some exceptions, in particular, those caused by computer systems that are poor matches to organizational processes. However, some exceptions are explained better by a political system perspective of conflicting goals between …

A Study Of The Awareness And Understanding Of Distance Education By Leadership Roles At Community Colleges In Michigan, Douglas H. Lape

Dissertations

Community colleges are faced with the challenge of providing educational opportunities to an increasing and diverse population at a time of educational reform and decreasing financial resources. The colleges are expected to meet the changing needs of the communities they serve through open access, a diversity of high quality courses, and with schedules that accommodate the life styles of their students.

The study was designed to answer the following research question: Are there differences between the five leadership role groups, at Michigan’s 29 community colleges, regarding levels of awareness and understanding about distance education as a means of providing courses …

Belated Recognition For Work Flow Entrepreneurs: A Case Of Selective Perception And Amnesia In Management Thought, Leonard R. Sayles, Alex Stewart

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Recent trends, such as reengineering, require work flow entrepreneurship. Important principles about these practices were recognized in post-World War II field research, but by the 1970s this work suffered neglect. Amnesia was caused by deeply held assumptions of scientific management, and by a search within business schools for academic legitimacy at the expense of praxis, which skewed the perspectives with which organizations were viewed.

Development And Testing Of An Explanatory Model Of Registered Nurse Empowerment, Marilyn D. Klakovich Dnsc, Msn, Rn, Cnaa

Dissertations

Recent innovations in patient care delivery and nursing governance require an empowered workforce. However, little is known about what combination of organizational, leadership, and personal characteristics maximize the prediction of registered nurse empowerment. The purpose of this study was to develop and test an explanatory model of registered nurse empowerment. The predictor variables included personal characteristics of registered nurses (age, experience, organizational tenure, education, and position level of clinical and/or management responsibility), perceptions of organizational culture, and connective leadership. The study was conducted in a tertiary-care hospital in Southern California. A total of 113 registered nurses completed the Organizational Culture …

A Meta-Analysis Of The Effect Of Computer-Assisted Instruction On The Academic Achievement Of Students In Grades 6 Through 12: A Comparison Of Urban, Suburban, And Rural Educational Settings, Edwin Patrick Christmann

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This meta-analysis analyzed grades 6 through 12 school students' academic achievement effect sizes from experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational studies that examined the effects of microcomputer-based computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on the academic achievement of urban, suburban, and rural students across various subjects. Those studies compared secondary students who were exposed to CAI with those who were exposed to traditional instructional strategies.

A total of 3,476 students participated in 24 studies which resulted in 35 conclusions. The sample size ranged from 28 to 425; the mean sample size was 140 students.

The mean effect sizes of urban, suburban, and rural students uncovered …

Cooperative Extension: Its People At Risk, Bonnie Braun

Journal of Extension

Constancy of change and the accompanying unsettling effect on people is causing distress throughout the CES system as salaried and volunteer staff are "at risk" of not becoming all they can be. The purpose of this article is to encourage readers to ponder the situation and dialogue with concerned others to collectively find ways to reduce risk and increase the likelihood that CES can be sustained well into the coming century. The ideas contained in the article were developed by a group who used its own resources to explore concerns and seek a common vision through the leadership of Chuck …

Financial Sector Adjustment Credit I To The Republic Of Ghana, World Bank/World Bank Group

Documents

Report evaluating the performance of programs implemented as part of the World Bank's first loan to Ghana

The Bg News March 28, 1995, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 28, 1995. Volume 77-Issue 122.

Spring 1995, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Sig

The Sig Newsletter from the Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy - Spring 1995

The Bg News March 8, 1995, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 8, 1995. Volume 77-Issue 114.

Cqi Trained Facilitators Retreat March 1995, Nadeem Mustafa Khan

Nadeem Mustafa Khan Archives

• CQI Action Plan: July 1994 to December 1995 - Progress Update
• Refresher on Some Key Concepts
• Detailed Discussion on the CQI Process Implementation at AKUH
• A.O.B. (Any Other Business)
• CQI Action Plan
• Quality Vision
• Training
• Status of Teams
• Refresher for Facilitators
• The Juran Trilogy
• Breakthroughs
• Project Team: Roles
• Facilitator's Roles
• Project Team: Activities
• Hold the Gains Phase
• CQI Process Implementation
• Lessons Learned
• Some Lessons Learned from Others
• Quality Council
• Project Team Members
• Project Team Organization
• The Chairperson
• The Project Secretary
• The Facilitator
• Selection of Facilitators
• Training of Facilitators
• Criteria for Project Selection
• Select a Project
• Prepare a Mission Statement
• What …

Diversifying Finance Of Higher Education Systems In The Third World: The Cases Of Kenya And Mongolia, John C. Weidman

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In countries throughout the world, there are increasing pressures to reduce the government share of costs for goods and services with high payoffs to individuals so that the limited available public funds can be used for other needs. This paper suggests several strategies for reducing government expenditures on higher education, including direct cost recovery, grants from and contracts with external agencies, income-producing enterprises, private contributions, and expansion of the private sector. Policy implications and examples (e.g., student access and financial aid, tax status of revenues from enterprises, deferred cost recovery) are presented for both developing and developed countries.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 03/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Diversifying finance of higher education systems in the third world : the cases of Kenya and Mongolia / John C. Weidman.

On The Green Vol. 25 No. 16 February 20, 1995, Gallaudet University

1991-2000

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

The Nutritional Impacts Of European Contact On The Omaha: A Continuing Legacy, Christiana Miewald

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For the majority of Native American tribes on the Great Plains, contact with Euro-Americans resulted in a number of changes in their lifeways. For the Omaha tribe, the introduction of both the horse and firearms meant a diversification in nutritional strategies and a florescence in their culture. After being confined to their reservation in 1855, the Omaha continued to remain largely self-sufficient in food production. During the early years of the reservation until the turn of the century, the Omaha were highly successful farmers, producing surpluses of cash• and garden variety crops. In this paper I argue that today the …

Meetings And Conferences, Ai-Hwa Wu, Karen T. Wei, Yasushi Yamaji

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Psc 595.01: Organizational Behavior, Jeffrey Greene

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Impacts And Effects Of Service Topic Bibliography, Robin Vue Benson, Robert D. Shumer, Madeleine S. Hengel

Bibliographies

Many claims have been made about the impact of service-learning on participants, programs and communities. From positive influences on psychological, social and intellectual development to effects on alienation, attitudes and social behavior, service-learning has been mentioned as a method of achieving these outcomes. Additional reviews of the literature in areas related to civic participation and general engagement in the public, political process indicate that service-learning can have an affect on the civic development of youth.

On the other hand, some studies have indicated service-learning does not always have the desired outcomes. As Dan Conrad points out in his review of …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, February 1-2, 1995

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on February 1-2, 1995.

Counterinsurgency: Strategy And The Phoenix Of American Capability, Steven Metz Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Dr. Steven Metz argues that the way the Department of Defense and U.S. military spend the time when counterinsurgency support is not an important part of American national security strategy determines how quickly and easily they react when policymakers commit the nation to such activity. If analysis and debate continues, at least at a low level, the military is better prepared for the reconstitution of capabilities. If it ignores global developments in insurgency and counterinsurgency, the reconstitution of capabilities would be more difficult.

A Systematic Approach To Defense Diversification, Sathappan Venkatachalam

Theses

The decline in defense spending has resulted in defense dependent companies seeking new markets through re-designing existing products, developing new products and restructuring their businesses. Defense diversification is defined as the process of transitioning a defense company's core capabilities (technologies, products, services) into commercial and non-Department of Defense government markets. A combination of site visits and review of the literature on defense diversification demonstrates the need for diversifying companies to adopt a systematic approach.

A concurrent new product development/product redevelopment model is proposed, based on the principles of concurrent engineering. The model consists of an eight phase development cycle and …

Faculty In Transition: A Qualitative Study Of The Vertical Extension Of A College., Susan Brorson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of faculty during the process of expanding an associate degree granting technical college to a baccalaureate degree granting polytechnic university. Two research questions were addressed: (1) What perceptions did faculty have about the vertical extension? (2) Did the faculty go through a transition process in adapting to the vertical extension? If yes, what transition process did the follow? The site for this qualitative study was the campus of the University of Minnesota, Crookston. Twenty-eight of 30 full-time tenured teaching faculty participated in this study. Qualitative research methods included open-ended interviews …

Implementing Community Policing: A Documentation And Assessment Of Organizational Change, Emmajean Williams

Dissertations and Theses

Four research questions guided this documentation and assessment of the Portland Police Bureau's conversion to community policing. These questions generated a description of the events and circumstances that created the perceived need for change in the Bureau's role and function; a search for justification for selecting community policing as an alternative policing approach; a comparative analysis of past attempts to implement innovative change of a similar dimension in police organizations; and an assessment of the process by which the Bureau implemented this new policing strategy.

The findings indicate that the prominent factors driving this change are first, the limitations of …

On The Green Vol. 25 No. 12 January 23, 1995, Gallaudet University

1991-2000

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

Vcu Voice (1995-01-16)

VCU Voice, 1988-1998

VCU Today, the University’s first official administrative organ, began as a somewhat irregular monthly publication but moved to a bi-weekly newspaper format in the 1980s. The newspaper changed its name to VCU Voice in 1988 and ten years later it appeared under the title UniverCity News. As it neared the end of its run as a physical newspaper, the publication became simply VCU News. These four publications were essentially the same periodical published under different titles by the Office of University Relations. VCU News appeared online for the first time in 2002.

1994-1995 Financial Summary, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office.

Morehead State University Financial Summaries Archive

1994-1995 Financial Summary of Morehead State University.