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Koinonia, C. G. Kors, Dan Janosik

Koinonia

Empowerment Model, C.G. Kors

Dilemma: New Age Infiltration, Dan Janosik

NASPA + ACPA National Conventions

Conference Speakers; Pre-Conference Workshops

Newsletter Vol. Xiii, No. 5, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate newsletter. This issue includes articles:

• Bluhm, Georg. Faculty Senate Newsletter XIII/5
• Garrett, Jan. Earth Day, April 22, 1990
• Resolution Passed by Faculty Senate XIII, Feb. 15, 1990 re: Earth Day
• Ozone Depletion as it Affects Life on Earth
• Vos, Arvin. Western's Athletics After the New NCAA and Notre Dame Contracts
• The Need for Increased Financial Support for Western Kentucky University's Scholars Honors Program
• Survey of Faculty Opinion
• Cox, Marlice. Memo to Elaine Moore re: Students on Academic Probation
• Optional Retirement Policy
• Summary of Comments of the Fiscal Affairs Committee on the Pulsinelli, Borland & Goff Report
• Faculty Senate …

Graduate Catalog, 1990-1991, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 1990-1999

Marshall University Graduate Catalog for the 1990-1991 academic year.

Ua77/1 Western, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

WKU alumni newsletter.

• Western Receives $100,000 for Preston Health & Activities Center
• Western XXI: Strategic Planning Team
• Record Enrollments
• WKU Grad Is Featured on TV Documentary About Teachers – Barbara Maxwell
• Alumnus Sponsors Videos From the Kentucky Building – Jerry Parker
• WKU Glasgow Library Offers Latest Innovations in Library Services
• Professor Is 1989 CASE Kentucky Professor of the Year – Luther Hughes
• Joe Winstead Receives Library Award
• Eugene Evans Re-elected Faculty Regent
• Professors Play Key Role in National Report on Teen Drug Use – Ronald Adams, James Craig
• Physics Professor Invents Pumping System – William Buckman
• Photography Students Tops in …

Use Of Departmental Review As Part Of The Assessment Process, James H. Mcbath

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines departmental review as a central instrument in outcomes assessment for higher education communication programs. Situating the practice within escalating legislative accreditation and board level accountability, it traces common anxieties that reviews may prompt program closure or reconfiguration. Through case analysis, this article identifies pitfalls arising from unclear objectives, partial data, and uneven participation, and then articulates two guiding principles: evaluation must rest on transparent standards and on evidence grounded in disciplinary knowledge. The discussion links evaluation criteria curriculum adequacy faculty quality resource allocation and graduate performance, with attention to external audiences who often misunderstand communication studies. Concluding …

Maximizing Student Outcomes From Internship Programs In Speech Communication, Will Powers, Susan C. Klingel

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article outlines a comprehensive administrative framework that positions internship programs in speech communication as strategic vehicles for experiential learning and institutional advancement. It specifies mutually agreed expectations for students directors and employers that integrate reflective journals theory application meetings and class presentations to sustain academic integrity and outcome assessment. Parallel attention to departmental image highlights how systematic reporting conference engagement and community partnerships enhance disciplinary visibility. Finally discussion of resource acquisition illustrates how structured relationships with organizational leaders generate funding equipment and advisory support that extend beyond individual placements. By linking curricular objectives administrative planning and external collaboration, this …

"Get What You Like" An Assessment Scheme, Mark J. Malinauskas

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Responding to escalating accreditation scrutiny, this article describes a faculty directed outcomes assessment model for undergraduate theatre education that foregrounds program ownership and continuous improvement. Guided by Bloom’s taxonomy, cognitive pre and post examinations anchor a multidimensional evidence stream that integrates portfolio compilation, videotaped performances, reflective journals, a comprehensive capstone directing project, structured interviews, and planned alumni surveys. The framework captures knowledge acquisition, artistic growth, and transferable competencies, allowing longitudinal comparisons that illuminate value added by the curriculum. Data inform curricular revision, demonstrate accountability to legislators and regional accrediting bodies, and empower students to become self assessing practitioners. By aligning …

Defining The Discipline: Outcome Assessment And The Prospects For Communication Programs, Robert M. Smith, Gary T. Hunt

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article traces the rise of outcomes assessment in communication programs, positioning assessment as an instrument for student focused appraisal of educational value. It delineates contrasts between traditional evaluation and contemporary assessment, notably the shift from individual proficiency indicators to program accountability, multi measure evaluation, comprehensive skill appraisal, and value added comparisons. The discussion surveys national trends in accreditation, curriculum revision, and institutional planning, while highlighting strategies such as capstone courses, competency testing, and speaking across the curriculum. By mapping these practices, the article formulates an agenda that urges departments to define disciplinary competencies, engage proactively in test development, and …

The Assessment Movement: A Challenge And An Opportunity, Gary T. Hunt

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article surveys the evolving assessment movement in higher education, focusing on its implications for communication departments and curriculum planning. It contextualizes accountability pressures from federal policy, regional accreditation, and state legislatures, and outlines four assessment domains: basic skills, general education, major content, and student development. By comparing standardized instruments with locally designed measures such as portfolios, capstone courses, exit interviews, and assessment centers, this article highlights emerging strategies for documenting institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes. Discussion addresses administrative faculty and student challenges, particularly in evaluating oral communication competency and critical thinking within speaking across the curriculum initiatives. Concluding …

Assessing The Outcomes Of College: Implications For Speech Communication, Phil Backlund, Ellen A. Hay, Sandra Harper, David Williams

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the assessment movement in United States higher education and its consequences for speech communication departments. It traces legislative and accreditation pressures for accountability, outlines definitions of outcomes assessment, and reviews standardized examinations, institution specific methods, portfolios, capstone courses, and performance testing as tools for measuring student learning and institutional effectiveness. The discussion analyzes issues of goal specificity, resource constraints, faculty ownership, and the appropriate use of results, distinguishing between assessment of individual competence and program evaluation. Drawing on examples from statewide initiatives and exemplar campuses, this article offers practical guidance for administrators and faculty, emphasizing the need …

Issues, Problems, And Opportunities In Assessment Of Communication Programs, Robert M. Smith

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes institutional assessment pressures shaping United States communication programs, tracing policy mandates, regional accreditation trends, and state level accountability initiatives. It maps outcome measures such as general education examinations, alumni satisfaction surveys, portfolios, capstone seminars, and performance based tests, noting methodological limits and political ramifications. The discussion contrasts cognitive and affective metrics, critiques reliance on multiple choice instruments, and highlights the absence of shared communication competence standards. Drawing on campus illustrations, this article proposes strategies for department chairs that prioritize faculty driven mission alignment, qualitative evaluation of graduate achievement, documented teaching effectiveness, and iterative use of findings for …

Outcomes Assessment: Creating Principles, Policies And Faculty Involvement, Michael E. Knight, Donald Lumsden

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article chronicles Kean College's institution wide outcomes assessment initiative, outlining the strategic planning context, governance processes, and faculty centered structures that sustain evaluation of student learning and institutional effectiveness. It details a collaboratively drafted Statement of Principles that safeguards confidentiality, discourages punitive comparisons, and positions assessment evidence for formative program evaluation. The narrative traces organizational change, emphasizing faculty liaisons, self managing teams, and flexible consultant supported protocols including portfolios, senior seminars, and criterion referenced measures. Findings illustrate how constructive use of assessment results catalyzed curriculum revision, enhanced advisement, and fostered a culture of shared governance. By documenting policy design, …

Assessment Guidelines For Theatre Programs In Higher Education, James M. Svmons

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article presents discipline specific guidelines for outcomes assessment in higher education theatre programs, developed by a national task force convened by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. It defines assessment as a formative process that traces student growth in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and distinguishes it from summative evaluation. The text categorizes desired learning outcomes, ranging from historical and critical knowledge to creative imagination, professional discipline, and collaborative competence. It then outlines multiple assessment sources and instruments, including performance juries, portfolios, comparative video taping, exit interviews, and alumni surveys, advocating a multi method approach that respects program mission …

Assessing Achievement With Standardized Tests: The Nte Speech Communication Examination, Robert N. Bostrom

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article evaluates standardized achievement testing as a tool for documenting communication competence and for certifying secondary school teachers, focusing on the National Teacher Examination in speech communication. It outlines historical rationales for objective assessment, reviews the structure of the Pre Professional Skills Test, Core Battery, and specialty area components, and describes ongoing revision of the speech communication specialty test. Detailed content specifications identify eight knowledge domains, including interpersonal communication, public speaking, media literacy, play production, and assessment. By comparing these domains with typical undergraduate curricula, this article exposes misalignments that create barriers for teacher preparation, and it recommends curricular …

Communication Competency Assessment Of Non-Traditional Students, Judith K. Litterst

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article advocates prior learning assessment as a systematic avenue for validating communication competency among nontraditional undergraduates. It situates the rationale in demographic data showing the growth of adult learners and discusses the life centered orientation of adult education. The narrative details a flexible assessment model that distinguishes experiential learning from classroom instruction, specifies generic learning outcomes across public speaking interpersonal and small group contexts, and deploys multimethod evaluation including diagnostic interviews portfolios objective theory examinations and performance tests. Guidelines address faculty training screening procedures instrument reliability and articulation of credit waiver or advanced placement options. By integrating experiential validation …

Nontraditional Approaches To Assessment, Ellen A. Hay

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines innovative assessment strategies in higher education designed to satisfy accreditation mandates for demonstrable oral communication proficiency while fostering learning outcomes. It details oral communication across the curriculum, in which faculty embed speaking tasks and feedback mechanisms within diverse disciplinary courses, supported by systematic training, student resources, and administrative oversight. It then analyzes the assessment center model, adapted from industrial practice, where students engage in simulated organizational scenarios, submit written and oral artifacts, receive multi rater evaluations, and reflect through self assessment. By comparing these approaches, this article emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between assessment and pedagogy, underscores the …

A Comprehensive Survey Of The Communication Disciplines In Higher Education: An Aca -- Asjmc Partnership For 1990, Garland C. Elmore

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article reports a nationwide survey of communication disciplines in higher education that catalogues academic programs across the United States and Canada. Developed through an Association for Communication Administration and Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication partnership, the study collected administrative questionnaires and professional association records to map curricula in journalism, media studies, public relations, speech, advertising, film, and telecommunications. It profiles institutional organization, faculty composition, student enrollment, laboratory and broadcasting facilities, and technology resources, offering a comprehensive databank for academic administration, accreditation review, and resource allocation. By presenting aggregate findings on program emphases, instructional infrastructure, and emerging …

The Capstone Course In Speech Communication: Format And Purpose, Warren Decker, Cindy Lont

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article outlines a senior seminar that functions as the capstone for speech communication majors, integrating rhetorical interpersonal organizational and mass communication theories through chronological exploration. The narrative chronicles the evolution from selective elective to required exit course, situating the design within accountability pressures and curriculum coherence goals. Course architecture combines discussion driven examinations, collaborative oral seminars, and a substantial theory application research project, each calibrated to foster analytical synthesis, library research competence, and professional presentation skill. Team teaching provides complementary expertise and multiple perspectives, while detailed evaluation rubrics promote transparency and formative feedback. By aligning integrative theory study with …

Communication Competence: A 'Test Out' Procedure, Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article evaluates alternative pathways for certifying communication competence in higher education by comparing a credit by exam option with a no credit oral English test out procedure at one university. It describes prerequisites, testing center logistics, audience analysis protocols, and persuasive speech performance requirements that mirror the basic speech communication course. Success rate data reveal high completion among deadline driven candidates, while motivational lapses hinder others. Resource analysis notes intensive faculty oversight for credit by exam and judge availability demands for test out, informing scalability considerations. The discussion situates these screening mechanisms within rising institutional accountability and basic course …

Retirement And Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective, Seth Zimmer

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Universities are faced with an aging workforce and threatened with deficits in number and quality of replacements for retirees. New policies and programs affecting retirement and workforce re-entry are taking shape. This points to the need for research on the factors used by faculty members in the retirement decision-making process.

Faculty are somewhat unique in that their university roles and responsibilities often allow them to be professionally active simultaneously in other settings. The usual concept of retirement becomes somewhat blurred where faculty members are concerned.

The decision of when to retire and whether or not to re-enter the workforce must …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 49, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Green, Travis. Forum Opens Door on Closet Racism Here
• Tatum, Doug. Coach Could Be Named Today – Basketball
• Bricking, Tanya. Budget Battle Begins at Western Tomorrow
• Jones, Angie. Teacher Ross Terrill Tells Tiananmen Tales – Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
• Math Department Head to be Named Soon
• Law Gives Tuition to Firefighters’ Kids
• Big Red and Cheerleader Tryouts Soon
• Lockert, Anya. Black Enrollment May Get a Boost from Success II
• Green, Travis. Associated Student Government Votes to Expand Congress
• General Education Requirements Being Revised
• Thank You …

Resolution 90-16-S - Visitation Hours, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to allow dormitory governments to set visitation hours.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding vacancies, constitution forum, shuttle services and resolutions.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 48, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lawson, Jamie. Western May Win in Games at Capital – Budget
• Summers, Kaye. Students’ Business Brings Carts of Cash – Tom Zoretic, Brett Hightower
• Howard, Laura. Regents Told School’s Identity Crisis Will be Solved – Western XXI
• Houchens, Gary. Peace Dividend: Harvey Sloane Focuses on Health Care, Jobs
• Students With Aid Will Have Fee Deducted
• Position Created to Cope with Enrollment – Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Committee Looking for Honors Program Director
• Wessling, Susan. Four Finalists Interviewing for Dean Spot – Education & …

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of special meeting of the WKU Board of Regents regarding Western XXI strategic planning process, includes report to the Board of Regents.

News & Views - Vol. 08, No. 09 - March 23, 1990, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 47, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Jones, Angie. Candidate Argues for Legalization of Drugs – Gatewood Galbraith
• Martin, John. Fewer Poor Students Can Pay for College
• Houchens, Gary. Student Organizations Say They Need Offices
• Ballard, Carl. Soviets' Strangers in a Strange Land - Immigrants
• Contributor to Women’s Interest Sought – WKU Women’s Alliance
• Teacher Job Fair to be at Kentucky State
• Board of Regents to Receive Update on Committee’s Progress – Western XXI
• Lockert, Anya. Stress Loses to Smart Thinking – Drug Abuse
• Athletic Spending Reports Shooting Blanks – Western XXI …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding educational reform, computer purchases, sponsored programs and budget.

Resolution 90-15-S - Publishing Teacher Evaluations, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution requesting teacher evaluations be published.

Resolution 90-13-S - 24 Hour Visitation, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to create two 24 hour coed visitation dorms.