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Critiques Of Gatekeeping In Scholarly Journals: An Analysis Of Perceptions And Data, Jean Bodon, Larry Powell, Mark Hickson Iii Jan 1999

Critiques Of Gatekeeping In Scholarly Journals: An Analysis Of Perceptions And Data, Jean Bodon, Larry Powell, Mark Hickson Iii

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article analyzes criticisms on the nature and functioning of the editorial boards of communication journals. There are certain elements in the pattern among the critics of journal articles and the journal publishing process. First, they tend to distort what was written in the original article by changing the words, concepts, or ideas. Second, they redefine the parameters of the study they are critiquing. Third, there is sometimes an element of hypocrisy in the critics' attack. However, from the analysis it would appear that editors attempt to maintain balance considering experience in publishing, geographic and institutional affiliation, and gender.

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An Investigation Of Audience Receptiveness To Non-Native Teaching Assistants, Eunkyong Lee Yook Jan 1999

An Investigation Of Audience Receptiveness To Non-Native Teaching Assistants, Eunkyong Lee Yook

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines the reliance of U.S. campuses on international teaching assistants (ITA) for staffing undergraduate course and the strategies that may affect ratings of their speaking competence. This increasing reliance has led to student complaints about incomprehensibility of ITA. This problem has been examined by looking through the eyes of the students, administrators and taxpayers. Therefore, the responsibility had been placed on the ITA, whose burden it was to learn the language and culture more fully. The goal of having ITA learn the language and culture better was eclipsing another important issue that needs consideration, the issue of teaching …

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Graduate Program Assessment Of Student Satisfaction: A Method For Merging University And Department Outcomes, Jeremy H. Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt Jan 1999

Graduate Program Assessment Of Student Satisfaction: A Method For Merging University And Department Outcomes, Jeremy H. Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article evaluates a communication graduate program based upon the perceptions of alumni satisfaction. The department's assessment plan was utilized to measure their perceived knowledge of theory and research, as well as feelings about career preparation. The results indicate that assessment measures related to content taught may be linked to perceptions about quality, flexibility and facilities in a graduate program. Educational outcomes will continue to be an important issue for communication educators. It is critical that assessment data be collected, interpreted and used to revise curriculum in order to be responsive to needs. By doing this, communication programs will be …

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Employer Expectations Of Newly-Hired Communication Graduates, D. F. Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell Jan 1999

Employer Expectations Of Newly-Hired Communication Graduates, D. F. Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines employers' expectations and perceptions of communication new hires at three points in the school-to-work transition, the initial job application, and the beginning and the end of the first year. This study focuses on writing and related conceptual abilities because for most communication new hires they are the foundation of both a successful job application, and therefore employers' first impressions, and of subsequent performance evaluations and progress. In conclusion, broad generalizations about the communication abilities of communication new hires may be unwarranted because performance expectations and the level and types of assessment vary with the type of position, …

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Lecturers, Instructors, And Part-Timers: The Person V. The Position, James W. Sayer Jan 1999

Lecturers, Instructors, And Part-Timers: The Person V. The Position, James W. Sayer

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Presents an analysis, based on a personal experience as department chair, on issues surrounding the employment of non-tenure-line faculty, lecturers, instructors and adjuncts, and the difference between the person filling the position and the position itself. Thesis on the difference between the position and the person filling the position; Terms of employment; Conclusion.

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Advancing The Discipline: Guidelines From The Experience Of Colleagues, Samuel L. Becker Jan 1999

Advancing The Discipline: Guidelines From The Experience Of Colleagues, Samuel L. Becker

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Introduces articles from the issue about the disciplinary advancement of the communication departments of various colleges and universities.

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John Carroll's Department Of Communication: Growth At A Small University, Jacqueline J. Schmidt Jan 1999

John Carroll's Department Of Communication: Growth At A Small University, Jacqueline J. Schmidt

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines the Department of Communications at John Carroll University between 1984 and 1999. John Carroll is an independent, Catholic, coeducational university founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus. It is located in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The Department of Communications is located in the Humanities division of the College of Arts and Sciences. Essential for the growth of the department has been a clear holistic philosophy that have been implemented in hiring, budget, curriculum and co-curricular decisions.

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Building Excellence In Communication Studies: Illinois Speech Communication 1975-1995 As Exemplar, Delia G. Jesse Jan 1999

Building Excellence In Communication Studies: Illinois Speech Communication 1975-1995 As Exemplar, Delia G. Jesse

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Comments on the establishment of departmental excellence at the Speech Communication Department of the University of Illinois from 1975 to 1995. Application of the concept of constructivism in department administration; Context of program creation at the department; Principles that guided program-building.

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Establishing The Department's Credibility With Central Administration, John J. Makay Jan 1999

Establishing The Department's Credibility With Central Administration, John J. Makay

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Presents an article about how the Department of Interpersonal Communication at Bowling Green State University in Ohio established its credibility. Principles applied in administering the department; Importance of promoting a department's image; Skills and attitude relevant to department chairperson.

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Protecting Communication Departments: Reflections On The Nebraska Experience, Lee Ronald, William Seiler Jan 1999

Protecting Communication Departments: Reflections On The Nebraska Experience, Lee Ronald, William Seiler

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article reflects on the vulnerabilities and strengths of communication departments at the University of Nebraska. The relatively small size of communication departments makes them especially vulnerable to administrative budget cutters. For a complex set of reasons, particular disciplines have become defining elements of universities in the U.S. Unfortunately, communication departments have not achieved such status. The professional organizations need to do more than offer the occasional workshop, they ought to make a concerted effort to help communications departments maximize the discipline's opportunity and make the field of communication valuable to students and become ever more essential to the university.

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Report Of The Sub-Committee On Advancing The Discipline In The Small Undergraduate College Department, Joseph W. Macdoniels Jan 1999

Report Of The Sub-Committee On Advancing The Discipline In The Small Undergraduate College Department, Joseph W. Macdoniels

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents the response of a subcommittee of the National Communication Association to a report of the Task Force on Advancing the Discipline concerning small undergraduate college departments. It is essential that departments figure out what the institutional mission is and be very clear on the department mission. Units must come to a clear understanding of the true institutional mission and develop the unit mission accordingly. The subcommittee has identified areas of concern that derive from the task force document and it has stated positions which are intended to alert or inform the small undergraduate college program of pitfalls …

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Advancing The Communication Discipline In The Community College Environment, Rhonda Kekke Jan 1999

Advancing The Communication Discipline In The Community College Environment, Rhonda Kekke

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article focuses on the advancement of communication discipline in community colleges across the U.S. Community colleges may or may not have a speech requirement for degree programs. If a community college does not have a speech requirement, or requires speech only or the Associate of Arts degree, there is a chance that it will not have sufficient enrollments or require the services of even one full-time speech instructor. Advancing the communication discipline in our new millennium is going to mean saving the best of what the discipline of speech communication has always meant, while adapting it to an ever-more-complicated …

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From Paper To Praxis: Advancing The Discipline In A Small College Environment, Alfred G. Mueller Ii, Delmas S. Crisp Jr. Jan 1999

From Paper To Praxis: Advancing The Discipline In A Small College Environment, Alfred G. Mueller Ii, Delmas S. Crisp Jr.

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article proposes the advancement of communications discipline at a small college in Georgia. In the small liberal arts college, one tends to find many faculty members who have had little or no experience with departments of communication. It is also plausible that some approaches to the study of communication may be deemed unsuitable in a small liberal arts setting. To meet the demands of the millennial technological environment, the dean of the college decided to reexamine the communication major in terms of its scope and function on campus. The proposals for the advancement of the discipline are discussed herein.

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Fund-Raising As A Persuasive Act, Robert C. Jeffrey Jan 1999

Fund-Raising As A Persuasive Act, Robert C. Jeffrey

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Presents an article about a fund-raising strategy implemented by a dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas in Austin. Application of the Aristotelian principles in fund raising; Processes involved in fund raising; Factors relevant to selecting prospective donors.

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The Commonweal In The Heartland: Charles T. Kelly And Iowa's Industrial Army, Ryan James Sprau Jan 1999

The Commonweal In The Heartland: Charles T. Kelly And Iowa's Industrial Army, Ryan James Sprau

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Decades before the 1930s, or the period most Americans refer to as the Great Depression, the United States suffered through one of the worst economic crises in national history. While not as devastating nor as prolonged as the economic disaster that affected the United States in the 1930s, the depression that gripped the nation from 1893 to 1897 forced millions out of work. The Commonweal of Christ, more commonly known as the industrial army movement of 1894, offered one solution to the nation's crippling unemployment problem. Crusade founder Jacob S. Coxey planned to lead the nation's unemployed and discontented into …

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(Review) The Myth Of Adam Smith, Spencer J. Pack Jan 1999

(Review) The Myth Of Adam Smith, Spencer J. Pack

Economics Faculty Publications

The Myth of Adam Smith, By Salim Rashid. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. X, 227. $80.00

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The Inherent Irrationality Of Judgment Proofing, Steven L. Schwarcz Jan 1999

The Inherent Irrationality Of Judgment Proofing, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

In recent articles in the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review, Professor Lynn M. LoPucki has sparked much academic discussion arguing that recent developments in corporate law have led to an erosion in the system of corporate liability, such that it might one day prove impotent. LoPucki has argued that transactions such as asset securitizations, sale-leasebacks, and corporate structures in which liabilities are placed in asset-poor subsidiaries are driving this change. One early critic to the LoPucki thesis, Professor James J. White, has argued that empirical data show no evidence of increasing use of judgement proofing techniques. In …

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Towards A Centralized Perfection System For Cross-Border Receivables Financing, Steven L. Schwarcz Jan 1999

Towards A Centralized Perfection System For Cross-Border Receivables Financing, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Reflective Choice In Health Care: Using Information Technology To Present Allocation Options, Arti K. Rai Jan 1999

Reflective Choice In Health Care: Using Information Technology To Present Allocation Options, Arti K. Rai

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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The Rehnquist Court & Justice: An Oxymoron?, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 1999

The Rehnquist Court & Justice: An Oxymoron?, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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In Defense Of The Big Tent: The Importance Of Recognizing The Many Audiences For Legal Scholarship, Erwin Chemerinsky, Catherine Fisk Jan 1999

In Defense Of The Big Tent: The Importance Of Recognizing The Many Audiences For Legal Scholarship, Erwin Chemerinsky, Catherine Fisk

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Civil Rights Without Remedies: Vicarious Liability Under Title Vii, Section 1983, And Title Ix, Catherine Fisk, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 1999

Civil Rights Without Remedies: Vicarious Liability Under Title Vii, Section 1983, And Title Ix, Catherine Fisk, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court has taken an inconsistent approach to allowing vicarious liability under major civil rights statutes. In recent cases, the Court has permitted qualified vicarious liability for supervisor's sexual harrassment under Title VII, but rejected vicarious liability under Title IX. Earlier, the Court rejected vicarious liability for local governements sued under Section 1983. In this Article, Professors Fisk and Chemerinsky describe the Court's inconsistent approaches and arge that they cannot be justified by the text or legislative history of these statutes. Professors Fisk and Chemerinsky argue that each of these statutes is meant to achieve the same purpose, deterring …

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Global Environmental Regulation: Instrument Choice In Legal Context, Jonathan B. Wiener Jan 1999

Global Environmental Regulation: Instrument Choice In Legal Context, Jonathan B. Wiener

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Reflective Choice In Health Care: Using Information Techonology To Present Allocation Options, Arti K. Rai Jan 1999

Reflective Choice In Health Care: Using Information Techonology To Present Allocation Options, Arti K. Rai

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Database Protection At The Crossroads: Recent Development And Their Impact On Science And Technology, Jerome H. Reichman, Paul F. Uhlir Jan 1999

Database Protection At The Crossroads: Recent Development And Their Impact On Science And Technology, Jerome H. Reichman, Paul F. Uhlir

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the potentially adverse impact that the emerging legal infrastructure could have on scientific, technical, and educational users of factual data and information-as well as on other sectors of the information economy-unless suitable adjustments are made. It begins by explaining how efforts to accommodate the networked environment to the publishers' fears of market failure will impose a daunting array of legal and contractual restraints on the ability of scientists and engineers to access factual data and information in the near future. It then goes on to examine the most recent efforts to devise a sui generis intellectual property …

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Book Review, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 1999

Book Review, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewing John Rogers, International Law and United States Law (1999)

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The Last Brooding Omnipresence: Erie Railroad Co. V. Tompkins And The Unconstitutionality Of Preemptive Federal Maritime Law, Ernest A. Young Jan 1999

The Last Brooding Omnipresence: Erie Railroad Co. V. Tompkins And The Unconstitutionality Of Preemptive Federal Maritime Law, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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The Virtues Of Presidential Weakness: A Comment On Fitts, Ernest A. Young Jan 1999

The Virtues Of Presidential Weakness: A Comment On Fitts, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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International Decisions: Grant V. Southwest Trains Ltd., Laurence R. Helfer Jan 1999

International Decisions: Grant V. Southwest Trains Ltd., Laurence R. Helfer

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Weighting Unusual Feature Types, Nicholas Howe, Claire Cardie Jan 1999

Weighting Unusual Feature Types, Nicholas Howe, Claire Cardie

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Feature weighting is known empirically to improve classification accuracy for k-nearest neighbor classifiers in tasks with irrelevant features. Many feature weighting algorithms are designed to work with symbolic features, or numeric features, or both, but cannot be applied to problems with features that do not fit these categories. This paper presents a new k-nearest neighbor feature weighting algorithm that works with any kind of feature for which a distance function can be defined. Applied to an image classification task with unusual set-like features, the technique improves classification accuracy significantly. In tests on standard data sets from the UCI repository, the …

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