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Ua66/7/2 Hilltopper News, Wku Chemistry

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Chemistry department.

The Academic Workplace: Perception Versus Reality, Sandra E. Elman

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

Why are faculty becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of the academic workplace? What accounts for burnout and low morale among so many college and university faculty? Is work life for professionals any more satisfying in the business world? What can academic leaders learn from business executives who work vigorously to reenergize their enterprises? Are corporate strategies aimed at enhancing the quality of work life applicable to improving satisfaction and productivity in our colleges and universities?

These concerns were addressed by a number of education leaders at a conference on faculty work life jointly sponsored by the New England Resource …

A Follow-Up Study Of A Dropout Intervention Program Utilizing Experimental Counseling Strategies, Cynthia Sue Ferguson

Graduate Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine the long range effects of a seven week summer dropout intervention program. The program featured academic remediation, job skills training and random assignment to one of three counseling models: Multidimensional, group or individual. Twenty-four male and 24 female economically and academically disadvantaged students averaging 15.5 years of age were tested in a pre-test, post-test, follow-up format on measures of dropout potential, locus of control and academic achievement. The Demos Dropout Scale revealed no change in attitude over the nine month period. Results obtained from Rotter's Internal/External Scale revealed a general movement to …

Volume 03, Number 01, Don Forrester Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 03, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

An Apology For The Ph.D. Degree In Theatre: A Personal Retrospective, David W. Addington

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article offers a personal, historically grounded defense of the PhD in theatre, contextualizing its erosion amid the ascendance of the Master of Fine Arts and changing higher education policy. Through narrative reflection, it documents the decline of doctoral programs, administrative neglect, and labor market contraction, then contrasts the scholarly rigor, disciplinary identity, and research oriented training of the PhD with the practice centered MFA. The discussion maps comprehensive curricular demands, foreign language proficiency, and dissertation requirements onto professional pathways, demonstrating how such breadth cultivates critical theory literacy, historiographic competence, and instructional versatility. Examining technological advances, demographic shifts, and renewed …

Should Theatre Programs Be Nast Accredited?, Donald A. Drapeau

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article explores the rationale for pursuing NAST accreditation in collegiate theatre education, distinguishing between misplaced expectations and practical advantages. Through analytical discussion of program evaluation, it contends that accreditation rarely guarantees immediate gains in funding, staffing, or facilities, yet requires substantial investment in self study, site visitation, and annual dues. Nonetheless, this article argues that the accreditation process yields strategic benefits, including national recognition of curricular quality, standardized assessment metrics, discipline specific data gathering, and strengthened accountability to administrators and external stakeholders. By framing accreditation as a collective endeavor that informs faculty workload analyses, budget planning, and educational standards, …

Theatre Accreditation : An Argument Against, Patti P. Gillespie

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques the push for theatre program accreditation in higher education, positioning minimum standards as psychological ceilings that discourage pursuit of excellence and homogenize distinct pedagogical missions. Drawing on philosophical reasoning and analysis of institutional politics, the discussion argues that accreditation frameworks lack valid metrics for theatre pedagogy, shift attention from learning outcomes to bureaucratic compliance, and risk misaligning scarce resource allocation. It observes that accreditation is already under scrutiny by federal agencies and faculty governance groups, and that tightened budgets diminish its leverage as a bargaining tool. By contrasting theatre with established fields such as music and nursing, …

Saying The Right Things (But They Don't Always Work), John Waite Bowers

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes how semantic framing of communication studies influences departmental legitimacy, governance, and program resilience within research universities. Employing narrative inquiry and institutional critique, it traces the precarious trajectory of a communication department subjected to severe program review, suspended doctoral admissions, and potential dissolution, then documents its strategic recovery through disciplined self definition, curricular clarity, and persuasive rhetoric to campus leadership. Comparative reflection on experiences at multiple institutions illuminates how labels such as discipline versus field and communication versus speech communication interact with administrative taxonomies, budget priorities, and faculty culture. The discussion integrates humanistic and social science perspectives, mapping …

Merit Increases -- Myth Or Reality?, Donald A. Drapeau

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques the myth of merit pay by situating faculty evaluation within a budget constrained environment characteristic of fine arts and communication departments. Using descriptive analysis of institutional practice, it argues that shrinking operating funds, stagnant salary pools, and top down equity adjustments render traditional merit increments symbolically and materially ineffective. The discussion examines how rigid performance appraisal systems create zero sum dynamics that punish collective excellence, then outlines alternative reward mechanisms, including released teaching time, travel support, equipment funding, special topic courses, and nominations for campus honors. By reconceptualizing merit as holistic faculty support rather than marginal salary …

An Algorithmic System For Determining Faculty Salaries, Theodore Clevenger Jr

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article presents an algorithmic salary model that guides higher education administrators in setting equitable faculty pay based on transparent assessment. Built on database software, the model shifts attention from annual increments to overall salary relationships, integrating rank, experience, career productivity, career visibility, and annual performance into a menu driven calculation of projected salaries. Assignable salary units are distributed across these factors according to predetermined weightings, then compared with budgeted figures to direct discretionary adjustments, thereby preserving equity during fluctuating funding cycles. The model encourages consistent faculty evaluation, links reward to sustained scholarly contribution and public visibility, and generates audit …

Faculty Evaluation For Salary Increases: A Computerized Model, Steven B. Padgett

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article describes a computer mediated salary model that supports equitable faculty evaluation in communication and fine arts units. Grounded in accountability discourse and human resource management scholarship, it details how the menu based software records teaching scholarship service and visibility activities, assigns configurable point values, encrypts data, and generates rankings that guide merit allocations and salary adjustments. Technical specifications outline minimal hardware requirements, password protections, and modular data files, illustrating adaptability across diverse IBM compatible systems. Discussion elucidates how standardized scoring mitigates subjective bias, fosters transparency, and supplies audit trails for administrators facing budget constraints and external scrutiny. By …

Application Of The Florida State University Salary Model To Speech Communication And Theatre Department, Eastern Kentucky University, Dan Robinette

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article recounts the implementation of the Florida State University salary model within a speech communication and theatre department at a regional public university, using narrative inquiry to reveal faculty evaluation dynamics. Through reflective analysis the text documents data entry procedures, merit unit calculations, and salary projections generated by menu driven software, then interrogates theoretical concerns about weighting rank, experience, career productivity, and teaching quality. Pragmatic issues including category customization, qualitative student evaluations, and equity across graduate and undergraduate workloads are examined, illustrating tension between motivational incentives and budget constraints. The discussion highlights how transparent metrics, audit trails, and flexible …

Developing Models And Systems For Merit Salary Administration, Robert M. Smith

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article assesses merit salary administration in communication departments, outlining why systematic, goal oriented processes underpin equity, motivation, and departmental planning. Drawing on administrative experience, it proposes principles for constructing merit pay systems, including faculty participation, explicit performance categories, annual planning cycles, and transparent criteria linking teaching, research, and service to differential rewards. The discussion then evaluates the Florida State salary model conceived by Clevenger and Padgett, explaining how menu based software aggregates longitudinal productivity, career visibility, and annual performance to generate projected salaries that smooth legislative funding fluctuations and maintain internal equity. Benefits such as cumulative data management, audit …

Research And Performance : Doctoral Tensions, Milly S. Barranger

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article surveys the shifting purpose of the doctoral degree in theatre and its uneasy coexistence with the Master of Fine Arts. Employing historical reflection and administrative insight, it traces how competing expectations for research rigor, performance training, and professional relevance have fragmented doctoral curricula and eroded labor market demand. The discussion critiques reliance on disciplinary models imported from literature and science, observes the ascendancy of dramaturgy programs, and diagnoses structural stresses produced by funding limits and faculty specialization. It proposes reconfiguring doctoral education around integrated dramaturgical study that links critical theory, production practice, and audience engagement, thereby aligning graduate …

Alice Breaks The Mirror: Or, The Future Of The Ph.D. In Theatre, Patti P. Gillespie

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article critiques prevailing assumptions about the Doctor of Philosophy in theatre, interrogating how divergent institutional expectations and performance centered curricula undermine doctoral rigor and academic competitiveness. Drawing on sector data, conference dialogue, and faculty search experiences, this article identifies four structural tensions: inconsistent definitions of doctoral purpose, discontinuity between undergraduate and Master of Fine Arts preparation and research oriented study, limited publication productivity that weakens market positioning, and departmental cultures that undervalue scholarly credentials. The analysis argues that theatre doctorates are disadvantaged when compared with language literature or history graduates because of inadequate research training and evaluative inconsistency. To …

The Usitt Evaluation Guidelines: How Do We Use Them? Where Do We Go From Here?, Lucy Nowell

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article analyzes the United States Institute for Theatre Technology evaluation guidelines and their implications for tenure and promotion decisions affecting theatre design and technology faculty. Grounded in professional practice literature, it traces how workload inflation, unsafe studio conditions, and inequitable compensation erode artistic productivity, career longevity, and departmental morale, while also discouraging recruitment of graduate technologists. Narrative evidence and survey data illustrate systemic burnout and attrition among technical directors, costumers, and designers, prompting a call for labor budget planning, transparent performance metrics, and balanced recognition of creative scholarship. The discussion links faculty evaluation with student learning, occupational safety, and …

Workload Policies For Theatre Faculty And Staff At Columbus College, Hazel E. Hall

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines workload policies for theatre faculty within a teaching oriented college in the Georgia University System. Through descriptive review of institutional practice, it contrasts lecture, laboratory, lecture laboratory, one on one, and extended laboratory courses, detailing how student instructor contact hours, rather than credit hours, more accurately capture instructional effort in performance oriented pedagogy. The discussion highlights strategies such as piggybacking courses, applying two thirds to one credit for individual instruction, and adopting three to one calculations for production laboratories, thereby aligning faculty release time with actual preparation and supervision demands. By comparing theatre workload practices with those …

Methodological Issues Regarding Student Evaluation Of Teachers: A Pilot Study, Craig Monroe, Mark G. Borzi

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article interrogates prevailing student evaluation instruments in higher education, assessing their construct validity through exploratory factor analysis of a campus wide rating scale. The analysis reveals that a single ambiguous factor explains negligible variance, suggesting ratings measure student attraction rather than pedagogical competence. Situating findings within accountability discourse and psychometric theory, this article urges replacing item aggregation strategies with a theory driven model of teaching effectiveness. It outlines an iterative procedure for item generation, confirmatory analysis, and context sensitive deployment, differentiating between global and specific, descriptive and evaluative prompts, and recognizing curricular variation across service, undergraduate, and graduate courses. …

Strengthening Teacher Education/The Craft Of Teaching, Ellen A. Hay

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the books "Strengthening Teacher Education," by C. Peter Magrath and Robert L. Egbert, and "The Craft of Teaching," 2nd ed., by Kenneth E. Eble.

Student Services And The Law, Jane A. Frederick

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "Student Services and the Law," by Margaret J. Barr.

When Is Released Time, Equivalent Time For Theatre Faculty, Susan S. Cole

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article examines the allocation of equivalent time for theatre faculty in higher education, focusing on designers technical directors and production managers. Using survey data and reflective analysis it shows that institutions offer inconsistent released time ranging from zero to six credit hours, often undervaluing the extensive labor required for scenic costume and lighting work. Discussion contextualizes workload inequity within burnout, morale decline, recruitment challenges, and safety liability. This article critiques current formulas, proposes that each production role receive at least three credit hours of equivalent time per show, and advocates hiring qualified staff to supervise construction, balancing production schedules, …

"Doan Be De Wictim: A Commentary On Workload Policies For Theatre Faculty And Staff, David W. Weiss

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

This article interrogates workload policy frameworks for theatre faculty and staff in higher education, spotlighting the unequal burdens borne by design and technology practitioners. Drawing on reflective professional experience and institutional observation, the narrative traces how expanding production complexity, administrative paperwork, and audience sophistication intensify teaching load and backstage labor. The text identifies structural inequities that cast designers and technicians as chronic victims, then outlines pragmatic remedies: selective season planning, addition of full time shop technicians, enforcement of union inspired hour caps, and mission focused alignment between curricular goals and production scale. By comparing academic practice with professional theatre standards, …

Executive Integrity: The Search For High Human Values In Organizational Life, Roger Smitter

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Reviews the book "Executive Integrity: The Search for High Human Values in Organizational Life," by S. Srivastva.

Department Head Vs. Department Chair, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Draft recommendations regarding departmental governance and the use of both department head and department chair.

Associated Student Body-Glasgow Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

First meeting of the WKU-Glasgow Associated Student Government executive council. Discussion of homecoming and Christmas activities. Includes list of businesses to contact regarding homecoming and by-laws for the WKU-G ASG.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Summers, Kaye. Public Interest Research Group Punted by Associated Student Government
• Howard, Laura. Business College Facelift in Works
• Green, Travis. Retired Upholster Re-Covers, Works for Western – Walter Newman
• Tsimekles, Diane. Outdoor Intramural Field in Preliminary Stages
• Residence Hall Association Sponsoring Parents Day Activities on Saturday
• Balloon Release for Arthritis Foundation to be at Football Game
• Deadline for Fulbright Grant Applications is Next Month
• Green, Travis. Associated Student Government Joins Board of Student Body Presidents
• Freshman Leaders Chosen in Election
• Human Tragedy Can’t Be Ignored …

Senate Meeting, September 27, 1989, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding United Way, honors program, faculty evaluation, budget, transfer credits and student information system.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 65, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hulsman, Lynn & Diane Tsimekles. Thomas Meredith, Professor Bill Liu to Travel to China
• Bricking, Tanya. Rising Costs Put Insurance at a Premium
• Tutt, Allison. Sigma Alpha Epsilons Trek to Eastern to Raise School Spirit, Money
• Memorial Services for Robert Penn Warren Planned
• Two Talent Search Staff Members Injured – Susan Adams, Harry Williams
• Lockert, Anya. Students Try Not to Laugh at Show – Entertainment
• Tutt, Allison. Speakers Call Rape Common
• Confusion Bad Reason to Prolong Mistake – Football
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon – Football …

News & Views - Vol. 08, No. 02 - September 26, 1989, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1983-1991, News & Views

No abstract provided.