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A Thoughtful Approach To Public Education Reform, John C. Rennie

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article restates the underlying rationale for the importance of high-quality K-12 public education. The author describes some of the difficulties reformers encounter in engendering support for and determining the most cogent elements of reform. The differences between the aims and capabilities of school-business partnerships, which essentially assist the current system, and systemic reform, which aims to change the system, led to the formation of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. Rennie summarizes the process followed by MBAE in developing a framework for reform and meeting its objectives.

Notes On Higher Education In The 1990s, Zelda F. Gamson

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article consists of a series of essays written for The Academic Workplace, the newsletter of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, since 1990. The backdrop for the essays is the increasing inequality in higher education caused by changes in the political economy of higher education, especially in New England. The first essay analyzes the roots of contemporary faculty dissatisfaction with their work lives by tracing the impacts of the expansion of higher education, changes in the student body, and greater government involvement in higher education. Subsequent essays discuss multicultural education, faculty shortages, political correctness, responses to …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding student fees, sponsored programs search, indirect cost recovery, fund raising and academic calendar.

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 4, No. 8, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

• To the WKU Class of 1994!
• Skipper, Bob. Regents Approve $113.4 Million Budget
• Skipper, Bob. Taking WKU to a New Level
• Highland, Jim. A Supreme Visit - Kentucky Supreme Court
• Wellness Center Notes
• Dinner Theatre
• Joan Martin: Caring Enough to Do Her Very Best
• Robertson, Lisa. Sharing Democracy in Moscow - Sylvia Pulliam, Joyce Rasdall

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding graduate advising, general education, academic calendar, Moving to a New Level and sponsored programs search.

Academics Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Academics Committee meeting to review findings of the University Disciplinary Committee.

Special Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding student fees, distinguished professors, mission statement and salaries.

Ua3/8/4 Joy Gramling Campaign Letter, Joy Gramling, Wku President's Office - Meredith

WKU Administration Documents

Staff Regent campaign letter to WKU staff from Joy Gramling.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes for the June 7 and July 26, 1994 meetings.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Against All Odds, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

1994 Talisman yearbook.

• Barnes-Campbell Hall – Portraits
• Keen Hall – Portraits
• Bemis Lawrence Hall – Portraits
• Central Hall – Portraits, Minton Hall
• McCormack Hall – Portraits
• McLean Hall - Portraits
• West Hall – Portraits
• Bates-Runner Hall – Portraits
• Gilbert Hall - Portraits
• New Coed Hall – Portraits, Zacharias Hall
• Poland Hall – Portraits
• Rodes-Harlin Hall – Portraits
• Schneider Hall - Portraits
• South Hall – Portraits
• Off-Campus – Portraits
• Alpha Delta Pi
• Alpha Gamma Delta
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
• Alpha Omicron Pi
• Chi Omega
• Delta Sigma Theta
• Kappa Delta
• Phi Mu
• Sigma Kappa
• Zeta Phi Beta
• Alpha Gamma Rho
• Alpha Phi Omega …

Management Accounting & Academe, Heather M. Hermanson, Dana R. Hermanson

Faculty Articles

Management accounting offers rewarding research opportunities. If researchers are able to identify more efficient ways to analyze internal accounting data, these new methods can be adopted immediately by interested companies. Breakthroughs in management accounting research do not have to filter through a standard-setting body before they can have an impact on practice. Due to the absence of management accounting rules, the great demand for management accounting research, and the availability of management accounting data, it is not surprising that academic research is beginning to drive the field of management accounting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding athlete graduation rates, general studies degree, general education, tornado alarm, administrative internships and fund raising.

Friday Report - Vol. 03, No. 18 - May 20, 1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1991-1996, Friday Report

No abstract provided.

Retreat Summary, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding Council on Higher Education, regents professorships, general education, affirmative action, sponsored programs and retreat.

Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Quarterly Meeting to discuss disposition of meeting minutes; committee reports; mission statement of the WKU Foundation; personnel actions; and the president's report.

Ua66/14/3 Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Pinning ceremony program listing graduates of the WKU Nursing program.

Characteristics Of Marginally Achieving Secondary Students And The Nature Of Their School Experience, Aeylin Summers

Dissertations and Theses

In American high schools, students are sorted into three "tracks" to cluster resources for students of similar abilities and interests. Much is known about the high track student, and especially in the past decade, the low track or "at-risk" student. However, the middle track--or marginally achieving student--has been largely overlooked in the literature. Acknowledged as "lost in the middle" (Judson, 1992), as well as deserving of higher quality of service in their school systems (Powell, Farrar, & Cohen, 1985), marginal achievers-defined here as having a GPA of 1.5-2.5, still maintain a profile of invisibility. Current reform efforts to increase student …

Academic Senate Minutes Index 1993-1994, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Senate Meeting, May 4, 1994, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding Moving to a New Level, course numbers, administrator stipends, salaries and indirect cost recovery.

The Need And Justifcation For All-Black Male Academies In Urban Areas, Nimrod Malik Shabazz

McCabe Thesis Collection

During the 1980's, the concept of an all-Black male academy was strongly pushed as a panacea for the seemingly systematic, scholastic downfall of Black males in secondary institutions. Though said academies have received strong community support, opposition against them has also been equally staunch. All-Black male academies have also fallen under question because of their supposed discrimination against females and the belief that their existence would return the system of education in the United States to segregation.

The purpose of this study is to analyze historical factors which have affected Black male academic achievement on the secondary level in urban …

Volume 07, Number 03, Richard F. Welch Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 07, Number 03 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Pod Network News, May 1994

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

1994 POD Conference in Portland

Thanks to Dan and Don

Welcome to Nancy

CORE Meeting in Chicago

POD Activities at AAHE

Future Conference Sites

Congratulations

Screeners for Hesburgh Award

Enclosures

Conferences, Resources and Job Openings

Announcements

Visions from the New POD President

Some things to do

To Improve the Academy: Associate Editor/Reviewer Self-Nomination Form

University Of Central Florida Graduate Catalog, 1994 - 1995, University Of Central Florida

UCF Catalogs

No abstract provided.

University Of Central Florida Undergraduate Catalog, 1994 - 1995, University Of Central Florida

UCF Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Tenure: A Conscientious Objective, William W. Van Alstyne

Popular Media

This critical response to James O'Toole's Tenure: A Conscientious Objection argues that O'Toole's argument that the tenure system is unnecessary under due process subverts the purpose of tenure elimination, that is, a healthy rate of teacher turnover.

The National Policy Board Of Educational Administration Competency Skills For School Leaders And Their Relation To Interagency Collaboration, Ellen Stites

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the 21 competency domains of the National Policy Board of Educational Administration (NPBEA) and their importance in a collaborative effort like Cities in Schools (CIS). The purpose of the study was to identify the knowledge and skills which school principals need to facilitate an integrated service model. Data were compiled from a survey mailed to 195 CIS principals in the southeastern region of the United States. The 21 domains were rated and indicators in each of the domains were selected as essential to a CIS program. Conclusions of the study emphasize the importance of the 21 NPBEA …

Young Women Who Marry Early And Attend The Community College: Factors Which Influence The Completion Of Associate Degrees, Donald K. Bartholomay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate, through in-depth interviews, those factors which served to motivate early marriage women in the attainment of associate degrees and to identify characteristics of early marriage women who were successful in completing associate degrees. The details obtained from these interviews were interpreted and their meanings used to generate propositions and implications about the completion of associate degrees by this group of students. In-depth interviews were conducted with 28 early marriage women (informants) who either completed associate degrees or were within 12 semester hours of completing an associate degree. In addition, 15 in-depth interviews …

Relationships Among Teachers' Efficacy, Teachers' Locus-Of-Control, And Student Achievement, David L. Burrell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if teacher effectiveness, as measured by value-added gain scores on student achievement, was related to the teacher personality characteristics of efficacy and locus of control. The value-added mean gain scores for each teacher were correlated with teachers' scores on the Rand Corporation Efficacy Scale and the Rose and Medway Teacher Locus of Control Scale. A multiple regression analysis was used to determine if these teacher characteristics along with selected demographic variables could be used as good predictors of achievement gain. The population consisted of 132 middle school teachers across five subject areas …

Parent Perceptions Of Actual And Ideal Levels Of Involvement In Decision-Making In Tennessee Elementary Schools, John R. Clark

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of this study was to determine differences between parent perceptions of the actual and ideal amounts of involvement of parents, teachers and principals in decision-making at the elementary school level. This study was conducted in conjunction with two parallel studies that considered principal and teacher perceptions with the same hypotheses. The last chapter (six) presents a summary with conclusions and recommendations of all three studies. A questionnaire, designed to examine parent perceptions of the actual and the ideal levels of involvement of teachers, parents, and principal in decision making in elementary schools in the areas of budget, personnel, …