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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Elmore, Gary. Lee Watkins Changing Student Financial Aid Office
• Dezern, Craig. Some Students Critical of Geology Program
• Moore, Grace. Pershing Rifles Cut Ties with National, Plan to Reorganize
• Year is too Long to Erase Incompletes
• Bloss, Lou. Editorial Cartoon – Associated Student Government Penalty
• Bloss, Lou. Split Personality Causes Newsroom Conflict
• Davis, Carl. Disagrees with Associated Student Government Proposal
• Kolbenschalg, Peter. Vote in Primaries
• Strine, Cindy. Wants More Coverage – Kappa Delta
• Fisher, Roxann. Sports Should Include Rugby
• Paul, Steve. Associated Student Government Wants Cable …

Ua3/6/7 Update - October, Wku President's Office

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Newsletter created by the WKU President's Office to update campus faculty and staff on events.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Meehan, Mary. Panel Halts Off-Campus Housing for Greeks
• Dezern, Craig. John Y. Brown Says Education Needs to be Studied
• Collins, Michael. Woodworking Challenges Teacher – Jerry Lyons
• Morton, Jamie. Parking Lot to Be Finished in Three to Five Weeks
• Greek Row Should be Plowed Under
• Bloss, Lou. Editorial Cartoon – Greek Row
• Whitaker, Karen. Writer Turns Into Nocturnal Creature at Desk
• Whitaker, Karen. Teachers’ Group Studies Shakers
• Newton, Jonathon. Lecture Series to Focus on Looking for Jobs
• Edelen, Mark. Car Registration to be Done by …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

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On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• They’ll Be Writing & Thinking at the Lake – Writing & Thinking Across the Curriculum
• And a Related Event Thursday, Oct. 13
• WKU Meets Kentucky’s Two New Presidents – Kala Stroup, Leon Boothe
• We’re Having Guests This Weekend – College Awareness Day
• About Gigabits & More – Administrative Office Systems, Gamma Lambda
• Church Attendance Study Makes Headlines – Jerry Cardwell
• Students Learn from a Pro; We Get the Benefit Too – Death of a Salesman, Warren Hammack
• Study in London Between Semesters …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Meehan, Mary. Most Groups Not Interested in Greek Row
• Collins, Michael. Enrollment Decrease Linked to Waiver Loss
• Few Support Move, Survey Shows – Greek Row
• Bloss, Lou. Nicknames Provide Mix of Monikers
• Bloss, Lou. Editorial Cartoon – Nicknames
• Bastin, Tyrone. Athletic Funding, Priorities Questioned
• Fowler, Theresa. Food Scholarships Abused, Unfair
• Botula, Daniel. Comment Amuses Steelers Supporter
• McKinney, Mitchell. Expresses Gratitude for Weekend in the Woods
• Fajardo, Rose. Gordon Liddy Lecture Enthralls Student
• Greeks Urged to Oppose Moratorium
• Capitol Arts Center to Present Topper
• Paul, Steve. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 59, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Paul, Steve. Local Merchants Await Refund for Discount Cards
• Collins, Michael. Officials Seek More Black Faculty
• Brown, Jill. Economic Ignorance Focus of Professor’s New Job – William Davis
• Hiring of Black Faculty Speeds Desegregation
• Bloss, Lou. Editorial Cartoon – Big Red Desegregation Plan
• Bloss, Lou. Traveling Fire & Brimstone Evangelists Distort Gospel
• Morton, Jamie. Band Rocks University Center Board’s Pregame Jam
• Lee Watkins Recommended as Director – Student Financial Aid
• Meehan, Mary. Fellowship of Christian Athletes Runners Raise Money in Jog-a-Thon
• Sorority’s Grades Above 2.2 …

Ua12/2/1 Magazine, Wku Student Affairs

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Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald, featuring articles:

• Humphreys, Mack. Beneath Bowling Green – Lost River Cave
• Malmer, Victoria. Food for Body, Food for Soul – Louis Cook
• Thomas, Steve. Coming Home – Bob Buster, Vietnam

Ua66/10/2 Newsletter, Wku Mathematics

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Newsletter created by and about the WKU Mathematics department.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, October, Wku Alumni Association

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WKU alumni magazine. Features the following articles:

• Nesbit, Doug. Growing Up Victorian – Kentucky Museum
• Highland, Jim. Varying Experiences Highlight WKU’s Urban Journalism Workshop
• Cefalo, Bob. Wanted: Members for Exclusive Club – Hilltopper Hundred Club
• West, Gary. NCAA Rules on Recruiting by Boosters
• Alumni News & Notes
• Malone, Shirley. Survey of Black Alumni of WKU
• In Memoriam
• WKU Professor Studies Church Attendance Habits – Jerry Cardwell
• Paul Corts Assumes Presidency at Wingate College
• Western Graduate Highlights Storytelling Conference – George Shannon
• WKU to Offer First Robotics Class
• Thomas Coohill Finds Breakthrough in Herpes Research
• Bowling Green Invitational Opens This Fall …

Ua1b5 Introducing The New Faculty 1983-84, Western Kentucky University

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List of new WKU faculty.

Toward A Definition Of The Field: Local Constraints And National Coherence, E. Culpepper Clark

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reflecting on communication studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, this article questions whether a national field definition would meaningfully resolve local problems of identity, curriculum, and administrative recognition. It describes a department combining speech communication, mass communication, and linguistics, where student demand and public perception have made mass communication more visible than speech. The article considers possible unifying labels, including rhetoric and public communication, while noting practical limits created by professional tracks, degree requirements, community needs, and institutional expectations. It argues that departments will continue to be judged by what they do rather than by field labels, and …

Theatre Programs In American Colleges And Universities, Samuel L. Becker, J. Ann Selzer, Hyeon Cheol Choi

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reporting the first phase of a national study, this article examines theatre programs in American colleges and universities through questionnaires completed by administrative officers. The study estimates program types, faculty staffing, graduate enrollment, teaching load, production load, artistic work policies, faculty turnover, and theatre heads’ job satisfaction. It also considers the representation of women and minority group members among theatre faculty and graduate students. The findings show that the MFA is the dominant graduate theatre degree, that women make up about half of graduate students but a smaller share of full time faculty, and that programs offering the MFA tend …

Teaching Research Methodology And Writing In The Graduate Communication Program, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Using editorial experience as a point of departure, this article argues that graduate communication programs must give sustained attention to research methodology and scholarly writing. It links publication to professional advancement while emphasizing broader benefits of research training, including skepticism, problem solving, careful inference, and responsible evaluation of evidence. The article identifies recurring manuscript problems involving significance, research design, statistical method, writing clarity, documentation, and physical presentation. It also suggests that weak research often reflects not only technical problems but also attitudes toward inquiry, communication, and professional contribution. The article contributes to graduate education by connecting research instruction, writing pedagogy, …

Retrenchment, The Department, And The Association, Kenneth E. Andersen

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Examining retrenchment as both an institutional process and a disciplinary concern, this article argues that communication departments must prepare for financial stress through careful planning, shared governance, and visible evidence of program quality. It distinguishes short term financial emergencies from longer term resource erosion and emphasizes that faculty should participate in decisions affecting educational policy, tenure, staffing, and program structure. The article identifies criteria often used in retrenchment reviews, including mission, quality, centrality, cost, support, demand, and duplication. It also describes how professional associations can help departments before and during review by providing disciplinary identity, evaluative standards, publications, consultants, guidelines, …

Saving The Speech Communication Department: A Symposium, Andrew D. Wolvin

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Introducing a symposium on departmental survival, this piece frames speech communication as both increasingly important to American business and industry and vulnerable within higher education retrenchment. It summarizes evidence that workplace communication depends heavily on listening, speaking, interpersonal interaction, interviewing, writing, persuasion, and small group problem solving, while noting that some universities have considered eliminating speech communication departments despite strong enrollments. The introduction connects these pressures to ACA’s survival strategies work and previews case studies from departments facing institutional threat. It emphasizes faculty cohesion, departmental quality, campus political support, and professional resources as important factors in defending speech communication programs.

Saving Communication At Suny, Albany, Kathleen E. Kendall

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Describing a departmental survival effort at SUNY Albany, this case study recounts how the Department of Rhetoric and Communication responded when administrators considered dissolving it and redistributing faculty into other units. The account identifies several sources of vulnerability, including understaffing, faculty turnover, heavy enrollments, uncertain disciplinary fit within the humanities, and limited understanding of communication by campus colleagues. It also explains how student response, support from key administrators, faculty unity, strategic documentation, and a university wide study committee helped preserve the department. The case concludes with lessons about resource allocation, administrative location, collective faculty action, and the importance of building …

The Suny, Buffalo, Story, Charles R. Petrie

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Focused on the Department of Communication at SUNY Buffalo, this case study describes a prolonged administrative review shaped by budget reductions, declining student pools, public internal conflict, and loss of faculty lines. The department responded by arguing for communication’s student demand, disciplinary centrality, program quality, and relevance to the university mission, while also experimenting with resource plans, tighter requirements, larger course strategies, and use of part time professionals. When administrators proposed options ranging from phase out to program suspension or reorganization, the department issued an open letter addressing budgetary need, quality, centrality, demand, and internal strife. The case documents an …

Communication Studies At The University Of Massachusetts, Jay Savereid

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Focused on the University of Massachusetts Amherst, this case study recounts how a long range planning process initially recommended terminating the Department of Communication Studies as an independent unit. The account traces the department’s movement from being targeted for dissolution to being removed from later lists of heavily affected majors, while noting continued uncertainty about administrative reasoning. It identifies vulnerabilities involving disciplinary misunderstanding, uneven fit within social sciences, nonpublishing faculty, resource scarcity, high undergraduate demand, and overcrowded courses. The department defended itself by arguing for intellectual coherence, teaching and research quality, student demand, and the distinctiveness of mass communication from …

Sexual Harassment: A Selected Bibliography, 1981 To 1983, Margaret Cowperthwaite

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This annotated bibliography gathers articles, books, government documents, and bibliographies on sexual harassment published or issued from 1981 to 1983. It begins with legal context, defining sexual harassment through Title VII and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines, then surveys materials on workplace harassment, campus grievance procedures, legal cases, employer liability, training programs, counseling, policy development, and public debate. Entries address higher education, business, government, medicine, journalism, unions, and international contexts, with attention to gender, power, reporting barriers, remedies, and institutional responsibility. The bibliography serves as a resource for administrators, counselors, faculty, and policy makers seeking research, legal guidance, and practical …

Straight Talk, Tough Issues: Tenure In Times Of Retrenchment, Alvin Goldberg

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Addressing tenure during periods of institutional retrenchment, this article explains tenure as a protection for academic freedom rather than simply a guarantee of economic security. It reviews common criticisms of tenure, including claims that it protects unproductive faculty or limits hiring flexibility, and distinguishes those concerns from cases involving incompetence, misconduct, or financial exigency. The article argues that although tenured faculty may legally be dismissed when financial exigency is properly established, doing so can weaken the conditions that sustain academic freedom. It cautions that program elimination during budget crises may threaten precisely the kinds of intellectual independence that tenure is …

A Graduate Student Looks At The Job Market, Gregory J. Shepherd

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

From the perspective of a graduate student entering the academic market, this article examines ethical responsibilities in graduate communication education. It argues that job listings often reward broadly trained generalists rather than narrowly specialized candidates, even as many graduate programs encourage early specialization. The article also discusses competition from already employed faculty, rising expectations for publications and conference papers, and the pressure these expectations may place on students and faculty mentors. It urges graduate programs to give students clearer information about employment prospects, moderate inflated expectations, and align training with realistic career possibilities. The article contributes to communication administration by …

Three Communication Responsibilities Concerning Sexual Harassment, Bonnie Wilson Buzza

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Framing sexual harassment as an issue of communication ethics and responsibility, this article argues that speech communication professionals should help create informed, sensitive, and practical discussion about harassment on campus. It distinguishes unwanted harassment from consensual attention, notes the role of power in many incidents, and explains that legal definitions do not fully resolve ethical responsibilities. The article identifies three communication responsibilities: discussing the issue honestly and supportively, telling a harasser directly when conduct is unwelcome, and encouraging potential harassers to consider audience, feedback, intent, and effect before speaking or acting. It emphasizes self esteem, assertiveness, institutional policy, grievance procedures, …

Faculty Roles In Career Advising Of Liberal Arts Students/Consider Your Options: Business Opportunities For Liberal Arts Graduates, James Roever

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews two booklets in the Liberal Learning and Careers Series: "Faculty Roles in Career Advising of Liberal Arts Students" by David R. Hiley (1983) and "Consider Your Options: Business Opportunities for Liberal Arts Graduates" by Christine A. Gould (1982). Published by Association of American Colleges. Washington, D.C.

The Structure For The Training Of Drama Teachers In The Netherlands, T. C. Wald

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "The Structure for the Training of Drama Teachers in the Netherlands" by Annemarie Broekjuizen (1983). NP: The Ministry of Education and Science.

An Overview Of The Canadian Communication And Journalism Scene, Thomas L. Mcphail, Rlchelle Larsen

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Surveying communication and journalism education in Canada, this article reviews the uneven development of university programs and the continuing tension between professional training and liberal arts preparation. It identifies established and emerging programs across several provinces, noting stronger development in some regions and slower institutional growth in others. The discussion gives particular attention to the long process that led to the creation of a graduate communication studies program at the University of Calgary, including earlier proposals, media industry support, curricular debates, and arguments for interdisciplinary preparation. The article situates communication education within broader social, political, economic, legal, and cultural changes …

11th Annual Seminar: Defining The Field Of Communication

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Prepared for ACA’s 1983 annual seminar in Washington, DC, this program outlines a one day meeting devoted to defining communication as a phenomenon and academic field. The seminar schedule includes sessions on the meaning of communication, data based perspectives from journal literature, job listings, and scholar surveys, and organizational perspectives from leaders of major communication related associations. The program emphasizes participant discussion, critique, interpretation, and application as part of a broader year long exchange across regional convention programs and publications. It also includes registration details, fees, location information, and a preregistration form. The item documents ACA’s role in coordinating disciplinary …

Toward A Definition Of The Field: Local Constraints And National Coherence, Dwight Freshley

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Using the University of Georgia as an institutional case, this article examines how local departmental structures complicate national efforts to define speech communication as a coherent academic field. It compares broad disciplinary definitions from the Speech Communication Association with the narrower curricular and administrative realities of one department, where communication related areas are dispersed across multiple colleges and schools. The article discusses curriculum revisions, public and interpersonal communication as a departmental core, relations with theatre, journalism, management, and speech pathology, and administrative issues involving promotion review, system committees, service courses, and disciplinary visibility. It contributes to communication administration by showing …

Toward A Definition Of The Field: Local Constraints And National Coherence, John L. Sullivan

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Focused on the University of Virginia, this article examines how local institutional expectations can shape communication programs more strongly than national disciplinary definitions. It describes ACA’s regional efforts to identify common goals, methods, and subject matter in the field, then uses Virginia’s movement from speech and drama to rhetoric and communication studies as a case of program adaptation. The article argues that attempts to mirror the full field weakened coherence, while a focused humanistic curriculum in public discourse better matched institutional priorities and improved credibility. It also emphasizes scholarship, external review, naming, faculty hiring, and relations with the Speech Communication …

The Cultural Relevance Of Speech Communication: Approaching The Field From A Humanistic And Artistic Perspective, Mary S. Strine

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Approaching field definition from a humanistic and artistic perspective, this article argues that speech communication should be understood as an integrated cultural discipline rather than a set of separate methodological compartments. It identifies shared disciplinary assumptions about speech as cultural process, speech communication as organized academic inquiry, and the field’s role in refining cultural performance and advancing cultural understanding. The article then outlines three linked functions for humanistic and artistic work: developing cultural performance, reconstructing cultural grammar, and critically examining cultural forms and practices. It also questions divisional boundaries and conventional scholarly formats, suggesting that more integrated, reflexive, and experimental …

Approaching Speech Communication From A Social Scientific Perspective, Alvin Goldberg

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Framing speech communication through a social scientific lens, this article argues that the field can be understood through its content, theories, research methods, critical standards, and applications. It describes how scientifically oriented scholars expanded communication study beyond formal public address to include intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, and interorganizational processes. The article emphasizes theory development, varied empirical and descriptive methods, standards for evaluating research and coursework, and applications grounded in research findings rather than solely in rhetorical or artistic principles. It also notes tensions between academic respectability and skill development. The article contributes to field definition by presenting social scientific inquiry …