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Acuta Enews August 1978, Vol. 7, No. 8

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VICE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PARTY LINE

EXHIBIT AREA AT SNOWBIRD

VIRGINIA VIEW

MOUTH OF THE SOUTH

POTPOURRI

ATTENTION: ALL ACUTA MEMBERS!

ACUTA WELCOMES THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS:

Acuta Enews July 1978, Vol. 7, No.7

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MOUTH OF THE SOUTH

PARTY LINE

POTPOURRI

BITS & PIECES

VIRGINIA VIEW

ACUTA WELCOME THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS

Acuta Enews June 1978, Vol. 7, No. 6

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EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PARTY LINE

BITS & PIECES

NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT

MORE BITS & PIECES

DATA BITS

MOUTH OF THE SOUTH

VIRGINIA VIEW

POTPOURRI

Acuta Enews May 1978, Vol. 7, No.5

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PARTY LINE

BITS & PIECE

S SNOWBOARD CONFERENCE '78

MOUTH OF THE SOUTH

POTPOURRI

VIRGINIA VIEW

GETTING THERE FROM HERE--- AT A DISCOUNT

Communication Apprehension And Teaching Assistants, William J. Seiler, John P. Garrison, David W. Brooks, Frederick K. Sikora, Thomas J. Tipton

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The authors of this note have developed a program aimed at training, providing feedback to, and evaluating the performance of graduate teaching assistants. It includes the use of a tool called the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, which is reliable and valid.

Ldentificatlon .Of Factors Influencing Vocatlonal Agriculture Teachers To Leave Teaching, Roy D. Dillon

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

This study was undertaken in an effort to obtain objective data in as nonthreatening a manner as possible concerning the reasons why teachers quit. The 26 former teachers interviewed openly discussed why they chose another occupation, and were willing to rank their reasons. The reasons given and their ranking generally support the present job held by the respondents, as three of the top five factors listed most often related to farming and ranching. Seventeen of the 25 respondents were in farming and ranching.

This study, as well as other studies reviewed, points toward the need for continual follow-up of graduates. …

Acuta Enews April 1977, Vol. 6, No. 4

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

EDITORIAL

COMMUNCATIONS CONSULTANTS

FEATURED INSTITUTION

ANNUAL REPORT

BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S MEETING

NEW MEMBERS

1978 CONFERENCE DATES

MAJOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE

PROPOSED BUDGET 1977-78

An Analysis Of Selected Factors Influencing Use Of Time By Forty Vocational Agriculture Instructors In Nebraska, Roy D. Dillon

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Forty teachers of vocational agriculture in Nebraska worked an average of 2,652 hours per year, or 221 hours per month. About one-third of their time was used for teaching agriculture day classes, 11% for supervising Future Farmers of America (FFA) activities, 8% for curriculum planning, and 6% for supervising occupational experience programs. These four duty categories accounted for 56% of the time of the teachers.

Of the five program-oriented variables studied and being reported, none had significant influence on mean hours worked per month for the 40 teachers. There were, however, several significant differences found among groups on the ANOVA …

Concepts Of Career And General Education, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This paper examines the distinctions between general education and education for a career, with a view to synthesizing the literature and presenting salient problems. General education can be defined in several ways. It is defined here as education that puts a person in touch with the main outlines of knowledge available to a historical period or a given culture. Theoretically, education is general if it has no one specific vocation as its end and no one specific discipline or partisan viewpoint as its specialty. By way of example, the medieval quadrivium and trivium can be viewed as "general education," in …

How Serious Are Teacher Educators About Career Education?, Allen G. Blezek

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

A study recently completed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was designed to measure the extent to which selected teacher educators are incorporating procedures for planning and conducting career education programs into teacher education curriculums. The objectives discussed here are the determination of the extent to which teacher education staffs are incorporating career education concepts into the curricula of all of the colleges and universities collectively as well as specifically with respect to the subject matter area and/or specialty.

Federal And State Regulations Pertaining To Systematic Collections. I. A Case Of Inadvertent Violation Of Federal Regulations, Jerry R. Choate, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

First paragraph:

On 25 April 1975, at the twenty-second annual meeting of SWAN (i.e. Southwestern Association of Naturalists), at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station, President Keith A. Arnold appointed one of us (Choate) to investigate current regulations pertaining to collection and transport of scientific specimens in the region of representation (including Mexico) or SWAN. This charge involves both Federal and State laws, several of which are undergoing change and many of which doubtlessly are not familiar to the membership of SWAN. In order that SWAN members might be made aware of these regulations and not unwittingly commit violations, it …

Graduate Education And New Jobs In Education, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Teacher education has too largely concerned itself with a study of schooling rather than a study of education. In the next generation, given the concerns that I’ve talked about, we’re going to have to look much more intensively, on the one hand, at how much human beings learn as biological creatures and, on the other hand, at all the cultural and legal constraints on learning that exist. We will look at education in industry, in the community, in community action programs, in the tribal council, education through ritual, and through play, as well as through public schooling. The job of …

Acuta Enews July 1972, Vol. 1, No. 7

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First Annual Conference

Placement Assistance

Michigan State Workshop

Membership

Acuta Enews June 1972, Vol. 1, No. 6

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First Annual Conference

Membership Drive

Placement Assistance

Surveys

Future Newsletter

First Annual Conference

Acuta Enews May 1972, Vol. 1, No. 5

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First Annual Conference

Future Conference Sites

Newsletter

Standing Committees

Acuta Enews April 1972, Vol. 1, No. 4

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Charter Membership

Committee Assignments

Regional Presidents

First Annual Meeting

Association Of College And University Telecommunications Administrators Presidents

ACUTA: Other Publications

ELWYN HULL

1980-1981

CONSTANCE GENTRY

1981-1982

L. STEVE HARWARD

1982-1983

MICHAEL A. TONER

1983-1984

RUTH A. MICHALECKI

1984-1985

JOHN W. SLEASMAN

1985-1986

MALCOLM READER

1978-1980

ELWYN HULL

1980-1981

CONSTANCE GENTRY

1981-1982

L. STEVE HARWARD

1982-1983

MICHAEL A. TONER

1983-1984

RUTH A. MICHALECKI

1984-1985

JOHN W. SLEASMAN

1985-1986

Identification Of Experiences In Applied Biological Science And Agribusiness Of Seventh Grade Students, Roy D. Dillon, University Of Nebraska W. Walker

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

In a study to identify the applied biological science-oriented experiences of seventh grade students and to describe student aspirations for future study of applied biological and agribusiness subjects, a random sample of 1,286 7th-grade students was selected in Nebraska. The sample represented l0.l% of the 7th-grade students in Nebraska in 1970, and was selected by drawing a 5% random sample of schools within each of 8 mutually-exclusive class groupings as defined by the Nebraska State Department of Education.

It is clearly evident from the results described that 7th-grade students in Nebraska have gained considerable exploratory experiences through formal and informal …

The Pennsylvania State University

ACUTA: Other Publications

Attached is a draft of the charter membership 'letter we discussed at the meeting in Chicago last week. PLEASE. I have no special "pride of authorship" in this type of thing, so I implore you to be ruthless in your criticism, additions, deletions, etc. We want to entice a good membership drive, not put laurels on my head. So, if you'll go over this, make comments and return to me just as soon as possible, I compile the comments, prepare the final copy and have it printed.

Book Review: Summaries Of Studies In Agricultural Education, 1965–1967, Roy D. Dillon

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Book review of Summaries of Studies in Agricultural Education, 1965-1967 compiled by the Research Committee, Agricultural Education Division, American Vocational Association, Danville, Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers, 1970.

Comprehensive Programs Based On Competencies Rather Than Content Areas --For Agricultural Employees*, James T. Horner, Dale G. Zikmund

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

An attempt was made in Nebraska to inventory occupations and analyze the knowledges and skills needed by a sample of employed persons. More specifically, the purposes were:

1. To ascertain the various kinds of jobs held by workers in Nebraska.

2. To analyze the opinions of a sample of workers, in agricultural occupations, regarding the knowledges and skills needed to perform their jobs.

3. To specifically identify jobs requiring knowledges and skills in agriculture.

Author's Guide For University Of Nebraska Experiment Station Publications, G. I. Johnson, J. P. Holman, R. J. Graham

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Publication of findings of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station staff is an important part of the work the Station is doing for Nebraska. Since staff members usually are researchers first and authors by necessity, they often seek assistance in preparing their findings for publication. This manual presents a concise guide for publication preparation.

Relevance And Higher Education: Proceedings Of The Third Annual Meeting Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, 1968, Walter D. Weir

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The papers in this volume were presented at the third annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington, October 18-20, 1968. The papers indicate our focus on the problems of the relevance of curricula to learning and the relevance of higher education to the world. Black and white students alike urged us to make our programs, our curricula, and our concerns more relevant to the moral and social issues of our time, more relevant to a truly liberal education.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1- Relevance: An Introduction • Walter D. Weir

Chapter 2- And …

Proceedings Of The Second Annual Meeting Of The National Collegiate Honors Council. Washington, D.C., October 20-22, 1967, Walter D. Weir

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The National Collegiate Honors Council conducted its second annual meeting at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 20-22, 1967. About 230 faculty members, administrators, and students attended this meeting. The proceedings of that meeting are contained in this volume. The meeting was basically devoted to three concerns: (1) the problem of liaison between secondary schools and college honors programs; (2) problems and developments in the offering of science courses for honors students; (3) the exchange of information about problems and new directions in the honors program of those participating in the meeting. For the most part, the papers in this …

Proceedings Of The First Annual Meeting Of The National Collegiate Honors Council. University Of Kansas, Lawrence, October 22-24, 1966, Walter D. Weir

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The National Collegiate Honors Council held its first annual meeting on the campus of the University of Kansas, October 22-24, 1966. The proceedings of that meeting are contained in this volume. This new association is a response to the expressed desire of many hundreds of educators throughout the country that, when the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student (ICSS) was terminated in 1965, a national organization of individuals as well as institutions be formed. The new organization would carry on some of the functions of ICSS but would be free also to develop in ways appropriate to the present status …

Author's Guide For University Of Nebraska Experiment Station Publications, R. J. Graham, J. P. Holman

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Publication of findings of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station staff is an important part of the work the Station is doing for Nebraska. Since staff members usually are researchers first and authors by necessity, they often seek assistance in preparing their findings for publication. This manual presents a concise guide for publication preparation.

New Teacher Education Program, Howard W. Deems

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

The University of Nebraska has a new training program for agricultural educators. It replaces the Department of Vocational Education established in 1922 for the purpose of training vocational agriculture and vocational homemaking teachers.

Responsibility Of Teacher Educators To Youth Entering Non-Farm Agricultural Occupations, James T. Horner

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

(1) Employers in farm related occupations are not assuming the responsibility of educating their employees, (2) the proportion of workers able to secure unskilled employment is decreasing, (3) the numbers of skilled, technical, clerical, managerial and sales jobs are increasing, {4) many rural youth will inevitably enter non-farming agricultural jobs and (5) although their farm backgrounds and experiences are valuable, they will require considerable education to qualify for and advance in satisfactory employment.

Whether it be supplementing of high school courses, area schools at the post-high school level, community colleges, on-the-job cooperative training, or some other method, it is apparent …

Thoughts Along The Way, And The Way, Howard W. Deems

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Transcript of a speech given at the American Vocational Association breakfast for teacher trainers in 1961 on the topic of vocational agriculture.

50 Years Of Research At The North Platte Experiment Station, W. W. Burr, J. C. Adams

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The North Platte Experiment was established fifty years ago. So many changes have occurred since then that few people remember why research in dry land agriculture was started in Nebraska and other Great Plains states. In order to get a proper perspective, it may be well to consider some early history.