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Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 8, No. 1, 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
• Coming Up - Calendar of Events

This issue includes articles:

• Skipper, Bob. It's Time for Change Governor Paul Patton Says
• New Year, New Administrative Structure
• Regents Asked to Support Merit Scholarships; Discuss Vision, Mission
• WKU Receives $25,000 Gift from Western Kentucky Gas Company
• WKU Organizational Chart
• University Takes Action Against Radon
• Leavy, Marvin. In Response to the Myth of Internet Addiction
• WKU Public TV Celebrates Black History Month
• Cultural Enhancement Series
• The Roving …

University Reporter - Vol. 02, No. 06 - February 1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

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University Reporter - Vol. 02, No. 06 - February 1998 - Calendar Of Events, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 73, No. 31, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Batcheldor, Matt. Woman Crossing Normal Street Hit by Car – Deanna Thompson, Traffic Accidents
• Darr, John. Winding Down – Yoga, Tai Chi
• Moore, Leigh & Shannon Back. Radon: University Planning to Solve Problem
• Poetry Contest Entries Wanted – Women’s Studies Writing Contest
• Lanter, Charlie. Regents to Decide on Programs of Distinction
• Lanter, Charlie. Gary Ransdell to Present Vision
• Addressing Radon Step in the Right Direction
• Harlow, Paige. Editorial Cartoon Choose Radon Free Dorm Room – Housing & Residence Life
• Spoonamore, Mary. Seat Belts for Safety, Not Government Intrusion
• People …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 73, No. 30, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Back, Shannon. Western Withholds Radon Results
• Back, Shannon. Building Planning Moving Forward – Mass Media & Technology Hall
• Moore, Leigh. A Tale of Two Nightspots – Good Tymes, Baker Street Café
• Internet Classes Begin – University Libraries
• Englert, Jennifer. Study, Leaders Disagree on Fraternity Drinking – Alcohol
• Harper, Molly. Knowing Personal Limitations Makes Exercising Safe – Beth Bryant
• Topline Has Room for Improvement – Registrar
• Harlow, Paige. Editorial Cartoon Topline Registration Frustration
• Olmsted, Jane, et al. Show Both Sides of Abortion Debate – Roe v. Wade
• People Poll: What …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 73, No. 29, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Back, Shannon. Journalism Building in Budget Proposal – Mass Media & Technology Hall
• Back, Shannon. Top Five Programs Selected – Programs of Distinction
• Batcheldor, Matt. Three Students Die During Break – Stacey Coy, Levi Jackson, John Alexander
• Hutchins, Chris. Cheerleader’s Smile, Good Nature Remembered by Loved Ones – Stacey Coy
• HOPE Positions Available – Hope, Opportunity & Progress Through Education
• Veterans Program Begins – Veterans Upward Bound
• Batcheldor, Matt. Thieves Target Off-Campus Living During Break – Sigma Phi Epsilon
• Hall, Jason. Plans Announced for Commercial Airpark in Bowling Green …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the January 13, 1998 meeting.

Admissions Policies And Ethical Concerns Regarding Intercollegiate Athletics, W. Andrew Hlubek

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper is to examine admissions practices and processes at Division I colleges and universities, especially as they relate to special considerations and related ethical issues. First, I will review the history of abuses in athletic recruiting and attempts at reform. Second, I will provide more recent examples of abuses and reform attempts. Finally, I will provide data from an interview I conducted at a relatively large Midwestern Division I-A public university.

Ua3/9/6/1 Programs Of Distinction, Gary Ransdell, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Gary Ransdell interview regarding programs of distinction by unidentified reporter.

Ua19/16/1 Hilltopper Soccer, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Media guide for 1998 soccer season.

Careers In Communication: An Update, Andrew D. Wolvin

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article presents an update on career in speech communication. Research supports that communication skills are critically important for entry-level jobs and for career success. Graduates were asked to identify their first job and their present job in an effort to determine how people are able to use a Speech Communication degree to advance in their careers. The positions reported by our graduates are found throughout the workplace: educational institutions; businesses; trade associations; law firms; public relations firms; health organizations; media; religious institutions; government; entertainment; and financial institutions. Respondents were asked to identify what communication issues are the most pressing …

Ua3/9/5 Russellville Speech, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at unidentified function in Russellville, Kentucky.

Ua12/8 Scrapbook, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook of public safety related clippings.

Expanding And Sustaining Partnerships: Characteristics Of Successful University Community Partnerships, Judith A. Ramaley

Public Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) Program requires adaptations in the university environment. We must examine and reinterpret (1) the roles and responsibilities of faculty;(2) the design of the undergraduate curriculum; (3) the structures of the university that create the capacity and support to sustain different working relationships with the community; and (4) our definitions of success and quality.

Faculty Diversity: Effective Strategies For The Recruitment And Retention Of Faculty Of Color, Sheila T. Gregory

Trotter Review

By the year 2000 one-third or more of the nation's population will be composed of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, and other minority and immigrant groups. It is expected that two-thirds of the nation's aging professorate will have to be replaced by the year 2000, and in the next century or two, women and minorities will out number non-minority men across the board. Unless more effective methods of recruitment and retention arc developed, few persons of color will be likely to assume faculty positions in American colleges and universities.

Help Wanted: Building Coalitions Between African-American Student Athletes, High Schools, And The Ncaa, Patiste M. Gilmore

Trotter Review

This essay focuses on a topic of intense debate emerging over the last several years: strategies to improve the academic preparedness of collegiate student athletes. The issue should have been resolved with the passage of Proposition 48 in 1986. This measure stipulated that first-year students who wanted to compete in intercollegiate athletics Division I institutions must meet three requirements: 1) Completion of high school core curriculum; 2) Achieve a minimum grade point average of 2.0 (on a 4.0 scale); and 3) Earn a combined score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), or score 15 or better on the …

Leadership For Diversity: Effectively Managing For A Transformation, Adrian K. Haugabrook

Trotter Review

Diversity has become a contentious theme woven throughout many different aspects of higher education. Multiculturalism, ethnic studies, women's studies, curriculum reform, strategies for increasing access and opportunity to the under-represented and under-served and improving campus climate have all been vehicles to promote and further diversity initiatives. Diversity stands to challenge much of what has been the traditional views of higher education. The efforts to promote multiculturalism and diversity have caused the academy and the enterprise of higher learning to introspectively examine and reexamine its values, beliefs and relationships to a much larger society. American higher education now sees itself in …

The Institution As A Citizen: How Colleges And Universities Enhance Their Civic Roles, Nancy L. Thomas

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

This paper is premised on the assumption that civic responsibility is the contemporary version of higher education's historical outreach mission. With that as an understanding, it considers how best colleges and universities can fulfill this commitment of service to external communities, broadly defined to include local, national, and international concerns. The paper offers typologies of ways that institutions structure academic outreach, responsive curricula, land-grant and extension school programs, faculty professional service, coordinating student volunteerism and encouraging public access to campus for athletic or cultural events. Institutions interested in enhancing their civic role can take from this paper strategies for enhancing …

"The Art Of Framing: Managing The Language Of Leadership," By Gail T. Fairhurst And Robert A. Sarr, Michael W. Shelton

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

a book review of "The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership," by Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr.

New Wave Computer Technology And The Administration Of Speech Communication Performance Courses, Chris R. Sawyer, Ralph R. Behnke

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article talks about the continued interest of the speech communication field in technology-supported instruction. Earlier detailed descriptions of teaching/learning laboratories in speech communication are based upon older computer-assisted instruction models and such laboratories were financially out of reach for most small-to-average sized departments. Recent, dramatic enhancements of the memories and processing speeds of microcomputers has made them ideal for recording, editing, and replaying sound supported motion picture clips of speech presentations. Clearly, evaluating student performance and providing substantial and prompt instructional feedback can easily be accommodated by the course web site. Aside from the interactive testing and automated grading …

A Speech Communication Program In Malaysia: Case Study In The Conundrums Of Teaching Abroad, Robert C. Dick, Brenda M. Robinson

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article deals with a study which aims to discover directly the unique elements of the culture of the Institut Teknologi MARA/Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (ITM/MUCIA) students that affect their speech communication. There are multiple influences on student behaviors and no generalizations can he made to fit all students at MUCIA. But, there were some characteristics that were extremely common. A survey of the ITM/MUCIA faculty and staff, from a wide cross-section of Americans and Malaysians, revealed near unanimity on strengths and weaknesses of Malaysian students, reflecting the nature of their earlier learning styles. The substance of classroom …

Strategies For Effective Mentoring And For Being Effectively Mentored: A Focus On Research Institutions, Deborah Borisoff

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article focuses on the positive aspects of mentoring teachers within the field of communication. Department chairs ought to question the usefulness and effectiveness of this type of mentoring and consider strategies that will be helpful when new faculty are ultimately reviewed for promotion and tenure. The article examines the mentor's functions and indicate special concerns that may affect mentoring in academia. The paper argues that a formal mentoring process benefits the new hiree. The paper provides concrete guidance that a mentor can offer in the areas of scholarship, teaching, and service. These strategies focus on institutions where scholarship counts …

The Development Of A Skill-Mastery Assessment For A Basic Speech Course, Shelley D. Lane

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article describes the creation of an interpersonal skill-mastery assessment for a basic course. In order to assess directly students' ability to perform skills, a search was begun to find a workable method to assess the performance of interpersonal skills in a required core course. After concluding that little research exists concerning basic course assessment, and that standardized assessment instruments may not be readily applicable to a basic course, faculty decided to create a new assessment instrument based on objective and subjective criteria. Faculty determined the skills to be tested, the manner in which students were to be assessed, and …

Course Fee Assessments: University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Bill Black

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article provides information on several student fees assessed in various departments at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as of May 1998. In the Department of Music, the music fee, $60 for one half-hour lesson per week, per semester and $120 for one hour lesson per week, per semester is published in the undergraduate catalog. This amount is up from $45 and $90 in the 1994-95 catalog. This fee is collected as a part of registration to help defer the additional costs of one-on-one teaching. Some portion of the revenue from this fee is returned to the department for the …

A "Bard's Eye" View Of Higher Education: A Satirical Commentary, Gerald Lee Ratliff

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents several quotations from dramatist and writer William Shakespeare to describe fundamental issues that plague higher education and to express some faculty and administrator's perspectives on people, processes and places in the profession.

The Praxis Of Narrative Assessment: Communication Competence In An Information Age, Pat Arneson, Ronald C. Arnett

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article suggests addressing communication competence from a perspective outside the behavioral orientation to communication. Dialogue presupposes both the general public and the academy meeting one another in serious conversation about educational assessment. Ignoring assessment will not make persistent calls for accountability disappear. The routine use of negation of authority leads the way for a powerful enemy to take the public stage from the spectators who by that time have confused the critical life of a spectator with active participation in the culture for too long. Assessment is an inescapable part of the evaluation process. How to determine when communication …

Administering The Hybrid Department: A National Survey Of Combined Communications/Theatre Arts Departments, Ellen Halperin-Royer

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article presents a study which aims to discover characteristics of hybrid speech/theatre departments that describe themselves as highly cooperative and collegial. To test the hypothesis that departments that are highly integrated between disciplines enjoy higher degrees of cooperation than departments where the disciplines function independently, a national survey of combined speech/theatre departments was conducted. The first procedure was a mail survey, which was followed by a telephone survey. The mail questionnaire began with a question regarding the types of degrees offered by the department. The survey then included a series of yes/no questions pertaining to the degree of integration …

Developing An Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program In Communication: Values, Curriculum, And Preliminary Assessment, Thomas J. Socha

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article describes a case study of a Communication Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program and reports a limited, preliminary assessment of the teaching effectiveness of 25 UTA. The article concludes by identifying various benefits and drawbacks of Communication UTA programs and offers recommendations for departments interested in developing similar programs. Communication faculty were initially skeptical of the idea of having undergraduates serve as teachers. This prompted discussions about the underlying values that might serve as building blocks of a UTA program. The label UTA is used to refer to a supervised teaching role occupied by an undergraduate. The role of …

Approaches To Teaching Organizational Communication, Ronald L. Applbaum

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses approaches to teaching organizational communication in departments of speech communication. This paper argues that the primary goal in most organizational communication courses at the undergraduate level is actually the development of communication competencies. There are a number of teaching strategies used in the teaching of the basic course in organizational communication, ranging from lecture/discussion to experiential learning projects. Instructors have been particularly sensitive to criticism for the need to connect the classroom to the workplace. Instructional exercises are used to examine the role of human interaction in organizational life. Some of the most frequently used exercise strategies …

The Troubled Waters Of Communication Research: A Position Paper, Larry Z. Leslie

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article explores some of the problems faced by journalism and communication research. This effort is designed to stimulate thought and further discussion. This position paper calls for action to address some of the problems faced by communication researchers. It might be useful to begin with some basic definitions. Although many differences exist in departments of journalism, mass communication, and speech communication, for present purposes, the term communication shall refer broadly to all these specialties. Curricula, faculty training, students, research agendas, research methodology, teaching loads, and the like all differ. The terms research and scholarship have precise meanings to many, …