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The Lucille N. Austin Memorial Lecture, October 10, 1995, Augusta Souza Kappner

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Dr. Augusta Souza Kappner addresses the trends of the day in social welfare and education policy.

The Val Verde Financial Crisis, Zelma Russ

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Keepers Of The Flame: Contemporary Urban Superintendents, Theodore J. Kowalski

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

A wealth of qualitative data concerning urban districts and their school superintendents in the United States is contained in this book. Theodore J Kowalski examines the lives of 17 urban school superintendents focusing on their problems and aspirations. Of particular significance is the discussion of how factors such as community environment, organizational change and culture, and the person in the job combine to influence decision-making and administrative behaviour.

Case Studies On Educational Administration, Theodore J. Kowalski

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

This book immerses prospective administrators in the realities of practice and decision-making through the use of a wide range of open-ended case studies. Effective practice in school administration involves making decisions about management of schools and reform, including state deregulation, district decentralization, and school restructuring. Leaders need to think beyond management and consider how to affect school culture, professional development, and changing populations. The cases in this book will help leaders address those issues by honing three key skills: (1) How to identify and solve problems; (2) How to develop and evaluate alternative solutions; (3) How to continuously refine professional …

Preparing Teachers To Be Leaders: Barriers In The Workplace, Theodore J. Kowalski

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Efforts to prepare teachers to be leaders are often impeded by a number of barriers in society and schools. Obstacles in the workplace are largely products of organizational cultures and climates that place teachers in subordinate roles. The argument is made that consideration of these barriers must be incorporated into revisions of teacher education curricula.

The Effects Of The Recommendations Of The Joint Legislative Audit And Review Commission On State Funding For The School Divisions Of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, And Virginia Beach, James T. Roberts

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the recommendations of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) on State funding for the school divisions in the Virginia cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach.

The case study design provided the framework for the examination of the data. Records available from the Virginia State Department of Education, the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, the Virginia Education Association (VEA), and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission were reviewed to develop the research questions and the interview guides. Interviews were held with key persons in the …

The Advocate, December 1994, Vol. 6, No. 7, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

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Henderson Suspensions at BMCC Lifted: Victory for Student Government. Tom Smith (p. 1)

New Directions for Computing at GSUC. David Kirschenbaum (p. 1)

Student Rally at City Hall Draws Crowd. Michael Spear, Photographs by Craig Scull (p. 1)

Editorial: The Message from BMCC. Robert Hollander (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Letters

One Fag to Another: A Response to Hollander’s “The Personal and the Political: Silence and Shrill Cries.” Wayne Marat Vansertima, The Berdache (p. 2)

Living in Harmony? (Response to Robert Hollander) (p. 2)

An Open Letter: From CUNY: The Organization for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender …

Advocate, October 1994, Vol. 6, No. 5, Gc Advocate

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Your Check is In the Mail: Students and the Research Foundation. Staff (p. 1)

DSC Allocates Student Funds Contrary to Court Findings. Michael Weinstein (p. 1)

Access Denied: Full-Time Need, Part-Time Schedule. Susanna Miller and Staff (p. 1)

LIU Strike: Adjuncts and Full-timers Go Out Together. Tom Smith (p. 1)

¡Qué Viva la Música! Untimely Death of a Sociology Professor. Courtney E. Guthreau (p. 1)

New Latin American and Caribbean Studies Concentration: A Cause for Celebration and Concern. Tracy Steffy (p. 1)

Graduate Students, AIDS and the Silence at CUNY: Part One. Tracy Morgan (p. 1)

Editorial: …

Budget Fy 1994-1995, Swosu Administration

SWOSU Fiscal Year Budgets

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Budget FY 1995. Submitted June 13, 1994.

A Study Of Tuition In Public Comprehensive Universities And Colleges: A Model For Analyzing Factors That Affect Tuition, Michael J. Roy

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to ascertain how enrollment and financial factors affect tuition at public comprehensive universities and colleges, and to determine the relative influences that these factors are likely to have on future tuition levels.

The study methodology included the analysis of 4 years of tuition, enrollment, and financial data for fiscal years 1987 through 1990 of public comprehensive universities and colleges located within the contiguous 48 states of the United States. In each of the 4 years being studied, approximately 300 institutions completed the IPEDS surveys to allow them to be included in the study.

The …

Advocate, May 1994, Vol. 6, No. 3, Gc Advocate

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Paradise Regained Issue

Students Join Streetwatch: CUNY Students Monitor Police and Grand Central Partnership. Alex S. Vitale (p. 1)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Speaks on Campus: Queer Theorist Discusses Silvan Tompkins. Pam Renner (p. 1)

Inside: Table of Contents (p. 1)

Confessions of a Caffiend: An Addict’s Guide to East Village Cafes. Gregory Igoriorg (p. 1)

Cafes Outside the Village. Gregory Igoriorg (p. 4)

Newsbrief - Summer Research: Immigration in the Big Apple. Catherine Kimball (p. 4)

Masthead (p. 2)

Editorials (p. 2)

Editor’s Note. Pamela Renner.

Course Evaluations: Why Not Here? Pamela Renner.

Who’s to Be Executive …

Advocate, February 1994, Vol. 6, No. 1, Gc Advocate

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Cultural Studies at CUNY. Barbara Martinsons (p. 1)

The Whole World is Talking. Kevin Cooke and Dan Lehrer (p. 1)

Contents: Columns and Features (p. 1)

Editor’s Note. Pamela Renner (p. 2)

Ask Aphrodite (p. 3)

Valkyrie in Valhalla. Valerie Walker (p. 4)

Free Gratis for Nothing: Unemployed Man in the Free World. Stefan Smagula (p. 5)

Artist’s Portfolio: Curtis James. Pamela Renner (p. 7)

Bicoastal Emptiness: Raymond Carver and John Guare. Elizabeth Powers (p. 8)

Gotta Be Bad to Be Good. Jeannette Radredensek (p. 9)

City Sites. Charles Naylor (p. 11)

About Our Contributors (p. 12) …

Case Studies Of Beginning Teachers, Theodore J. Kowalski, Roy A. Weaver, Kenneth T. Henson

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Case Studies of Beginning Teachers offers a collection of 35 case studies of first-year teaching experiences — a mixture of true dilemmas and best solution scenarios — that bridge educational theory and practice to shed light on actual problems and challenges new teachers most often confront.

Graduate Student Advocate, December 1993, Vol. 5, No. 6, Gc Advocate

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Organized Student Support for Yomi Falters. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed and Christina Pretto (p. 1)

History Program Hires Caribbeanist Palmer. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Computer Center Attempts Comeback. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

December in the News (p. 2)

Reynolds Not Nice, But Efficient, Says Chronicle. Pam Donovan.

Power Plays: Liberal Redux, Or, Just Say Yes. Elizabeth Powers.

Ceremony Held for African Burial Ground. Diana Agosta.)

CSI’s President Volpe Reinstated. Pam Donovan.

Blank Named Hunter’s President. Christina Pretto.

Action on Campus (p. 3)

Labor History, Latin America: The Advocate’s Must-Take Course of the Spring Semester.

Letter …

Capital Maintenance Funding Of Two-Year Colleges In The Tennessee Board Of Regents System And Selected Funding Models, Charles A. Hurley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the differences between selected state capital maintenance models and the model used in Tennessee. Research questions addressed the differences between the other selected models and the Tennessee model; the quantitative results of the models using data collected from the 14 Tennessee public two-year colleges, and the policy issue differences of the selected models. Research involved gathering information for each specific selected model including common factors used to calculate capital maintenance needs. Comparisons were made of the major components of each model. Actual data from the 14 Tennessee public two-year colleges was incorporated …

Graduate Student Advocate, October 1993, Vol. 5, No. 5, Gc Advocate

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Economics Terminates Black Third Level Student. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

York College Obstructs Club Planning Anti-Reynolds Forum (p. 1)

College Association Votes to Reinstate Student Stipends. Pam Donovan (p. 1)

Amid Student Concern, History Courts Caribbeanist Colin Palmer. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

Action on Campus (p. 2)

Latin American Program Formed. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed.

Need More Library Hours? Michael Weinstein-Mohammed.

Tomfoolery: Notes of a Radical, Post-Haste. Tom Smith.

Engineering Student from Serbia Killed in Car Accident; Driver Arrested. Pam Donovan.

Action in Public (p. 3)

Social Mobilization? Michael Weinstein-Mohammed.

Resolution by the Doctoral Students’ Council …

Graduate Student Advocate, September 1993, Vol. 5, No. 4, Gc Advocate

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Administrators to Receive 4% Pay Increase. G. Ganter (p. 1)

Horowitz, Moreland Deny DSC Leaders Stipends. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Memo Suggests Reynolds Targeted Calandra Institute Months Before Lawsuit. G. Ganter (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

September in the News (p. 2)

Nurse Practitioner Arrives. Christina Pretto.

Tomfoolery: PC, Liberalism, and the Smothers Brothers. Tom Smith.

Guards Lose Benefits in CUNY Contract Change. Tom Burgess.

Two Music Students Killed on West Side. Pam Donovan.

Action on Campus (p. 3)

Administration to Reward Campuses That Follow Goldstein Report. Pam Donovan.

Memo Calls for Resignation of President of College …

Budget Fy 1993-1994, Swosu Administration

SWOSU Fiscal Year Budgets

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Budget FY 1994. Submitted June 10, 1993.

Graduate Student Advocate, March/April 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, Gc Advocate

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Graduate Council Rejects WAR Report: DSC Resolution is Adopted with One Friendly Amendment. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

Horowitz Bypasses Student Government on Provost Search Committee Selection. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

Students Protest Report in Front of Board: Only 30 of 100 Students Let Inside 535 East 80 Street. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Action in Public. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 12)

Masthead (p. 2)

MARCH in the News (p. 2)

Resign, Reynolds, Insists a Faculty Group. Tom Burgess.

Hunter Senate Rejects WAR Report. Christina Pretto.

Cultural Determinism: Trained Pigeons Need Only Apply. Tom Smith.

Cartoon: Tomfoolery. Tom Smith.

Events …

Graduate Student Advocate, February 1993, Vol. 5, No. 1, Gc Advocate

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Committee Calls to Lacerate CUNY: Report Suggests Departmental Closings at All Campuses. Pam Donovan (p. 1)

Low Cost Copying Blocked; DSC Contract Inappropriate. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

Who Deserves the First Amendment? Right Wing Scholar Published; One Socialist Denied Space. Andrew Long (p. 1)

FEBRUARY in the News

Prof attacked in Post. Christina Pretto (p. 2)

Circulation Chief Dies. Tom Burgess (p. 2)

Tomfoolery: She Ain’t Into Education, Guys. Tom Smith (p. 2)

Events this Month (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 3)

Action in Public

Student Representatives Lambast Board of Trustees. Jonathan Lang (p. 3)

Student Representatives Lambast …

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, And Ethics Of Sustainability, Richard Barringer (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability

Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine

Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.

The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.

Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and …

Contemporary School Administration: An Introduction, Theodore J. Kowalski

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Contemporary School Administration presents a pragmatic approach to school administration as a career choice, offering a broad, comprehensive overview of educational leadership in both public and private schools.

The initial chapters provide a foundation for understanding leadership and management, the primary components of administration. Common questions students ask regarding academic study, licensure, job opportunities, income, and career development are featured in the early chapters. The text is also unique in that it covers critical topics ignored in most other introductory books. Examples of these topics include private schools, women and minorities in administration, and communication. Content does not overlap with …

Essays On The Economics Of Education, Emily P. Hoffman Editor

Upjohn Press

The contributors provide an economic perspective on a wide range of education-related issues related to K-12 and higher education.

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 1992, Vol. 4, No. 2, Gc Advocate

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Cuts for Students, Raises for Administrators! Granville Ganter (p. 1)

Historic Marginalization & The Marginalization of a History. Diana Agosta (p. 1)

Ideological Hegemony: Inside a “Living Museum.” Michael Scott Weinstein (p. 1)

The Real Deal at Financial Aid: Interview with Janet Finello (p. 2)

Sex and Space: Another Look at the Urban Red Light District. Timothy J. Gilfoyle (p. 4)

Tomfoolery: “Neo-liberal and “Politically Correct”? Tom Smith (p. 5)

International Students and Financial Crisis. Manjula Giri (p. 5)

The Return of Martin Brian Guerre. Tom Smith (p. 6)

In Nineteen Hundred & Ninety-two. Text, Thomas Burgess; …

The Tennessee School Board Chairperson's Perception Of School Accountability, Dennis L. Peters

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to obtain and analyze information about the perceptions of local school board chairpersons in Tennessee toward school accountability. A questionnaire was designed to gather information from all school board chairpersons in the state of Tennessee. The questionnaire contained 32 attitudinal statements related to school accountability and 11 demographic questions about the chairpersons and the system they represent. The mean score, frequency, and percentage of the responses were computed and analyzed. The Kruskal-Wallis one-was ANOVA was computed to determine if significant differences existed in the mean score of the 32 attitudinal statements based on the …

The Role And Nature Of Research In A Financial Environment, O O. Akanji

Bullion

The paper examines the role and nature of research in a financial environment. It explains the types of integrated approach to research that should be encouraged and developed in a financial sector. The paper also analyzed the central bank approach and discussed how it involves central bank management. The major issues and problems in the baking industry highlighted were the problems of implementing measures of deregulation, macro-economic instability and distress in the financial sector.

The Graduate Student Advocate, Summer 1992, Vol. 3, No. 6, Gc Advocate

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Editorial: Gate(s)keeping from South Central to CUNY Central (p. 1)

$3.17 Million in Graduate School Cuts to Financial Aid and Faculty Hiring. Pam Donovan (p. 1)

Tuition Raised $600 for New Students; CUNY Declares Financial Emergency. Ken Stein (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

CUNY News

DSC Co-Chair Stipends Cut by 44%. Andrew Long (p. 2)

Discrimination and Harassment are Problems at the Graduate Center: A DSC Advocacy Pamphlet (p. 2)

Knots in the Board. Andrew Long (p. 5)

Unfair Labor Practices in the Dining Commons. Andrew Long (p. 5)

Local News (p. 3)

Was this the Prototype …

Budget Fy 1992-1993, Swosu Administration

SWOSU Fiscal Year Budgets

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Budget FY 1993. Submitted June 12, 1992.

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 1992, Vol. 3, No. 5, Gc Advocate

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Editorial: The Empire State Strikes Back (p. 1)

Editors Respond (p. 11)

CUNY Under Siege (p. 1)

Commentary: New York State Committee on Higher Education Holds HUAC-type Hearings on CUNY. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Board Approves Disciplinary Code Changes (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

CUNY News

Hearing on Changes in Disciplinary Code. Pamela Donovan (p. 2)

Board Hearing Goes Up in Smoke. Ian McGowan and Pam Donovan (p. 2)

Your Representatives React (p. 2)

New York State Shortchanges CUNY (p. 3)

CUNY Administration Prepares to Take Control of Student Activity Fees. Ian McGowan (p. 5) …

Impact And Implications Of The Shortfall In California's K-12 Education Budget, Frances Sue Munson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.