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Studies, Programs, And Good Intentions, Gilda M. Greenberg

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The University and the Urban Crisis; Volume 2, Community Psychology Series, Edited by Howard Mitchell and Daniel Adelson; Behavioral Publications, N.Y., 216 pp., August 1974.

This small book sponsored by the Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association, presents thirteen university- based personnel who consider the unique position of the university in sharing its expertise for solving the social problems of the urban community.

General Education: Let's Be Specific!, C. Edwin Howard

Perspectives (1969-1979)

To many of those who have been vitally interested in the advancement of General Education over a period of years , it seems that much has been written, and more said, of the philosophy of General Education but considerably less about the specifics of its implementation. It is without question that the philosophy of general studies is essential to the planning of an educational program. Also, few would deny the necessity for the continuous promulgation of that philosophy. But for those who have accepted the general philosophy of General Education, whether long ago or recently, there is the continuing and …

Is The Lifeboat Leaking, John Hicks

Perspectives (1969-1979)

What liberalizing educational course or curriculum is good for a student? Will the student see the opportunity inherent in a course if it assumes a degree of comprehension he hasn't yet been educated to? Will it do him good if he can't or won't grasp it now?

Can colleges start all over at the existent level, give elementary training, and yet arrive at language mastery and disciplined thinking and esthetic sensitivity? Can we ask a chronologically mature matriculant to defer graduation until still later? Or are the lost quite lost?

If, then, a student is free to elect, with few …

The University As Asylum, Francis L. Gross Jr.

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The word "asylum" has indeed a variety of meanings. It is an ambiguous term. It has been used to denote both places of confinement for mentally unbalanced folk as well as a sanctuary affording security and protection for those in need. The purpose of this essay is to see the large state university as a sanctuary for young people. It is primarily concerned with undergraduate students as persons undergoing crises of identity. It seeks to clarify strategies and goals for professors in dealing with these students. The ambiguity of the term "asylum" suggests, however, the possibility that the large state …

General Education: A Learner's Viewpoint, Eugene Wine

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Most of the articles we read about general education are written by those who either teach or administer some kind of general education program. I think it might be valuable to know the viewpoint of someone who has been trying to educate himself generally throughout a lifetime.

The interdisciplinary courses which many schools now have seem to me to be a great improvement over the general education program which prevailed in my undergraduate days , which was the still quite prevalent one of a certain number of credit hours in the various academic divisions. My feeling is, however, that one …

General Education As An Alternative To Liberal Education, Raymond Kolcaba

Perspectives (1969-1979)

At the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College, the campus community as a whole has taken seriously the district-wide commitment to general education. Rather than spell out the nature of general education , the campus president left the concept open-ended and invited faculty to discover its meaning through their own experiments and innovative efforts. Issues shrouding the role of schools are at times distilled into two views.

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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Behaviorism In The Classroom: It Seems To Work, Milton Kornfeld

Perspectives (1969-1979)

In trying to find a better way to motivate and evaluate my students, what I did last year was, essentially, to borrow an idea which appeared in Change Magazine (April, 1973) under the title "Behaviorism in the Classroom," by Elaine G. Breslaw. Ms. Breslaw teaches history at Morgan State College in Baltimore, and her description of student behavior at this predominantly black school indicated that her students were enough like my own to warrant consideration of this approach to motivating and evaluating students. In regard to her students Ms. Breslaw's concerns were not dissimilar from my own:

"I wanted to …

A Clockwork Course, Harvey Overton

Perspectives (1969-1979)

We can now forget a career of anxious Mondays, or returning to the classroom after a week-end of fretting about how to get our students to grasp some concept in aesthetics or epistemology. Our course objectives are stated with precision. Learning is administered in graded doses, with students unfailingly advancing from stage to stage as they are positively reinforced for productive responses. As classroom managers (in another era we were called teachers) we assiduously avoid strategies producing aversive reactions, knowing that they are counterproductive. Instead, we engineer relevant contingencies that generate the behaviors that are visibly effective. And all the …

The Academic Meritocracy: Its Origins And Future, David Katz

Perspectives (1969-1979)

"Virtue," Emerson assures us, "is the only reward of virtue." Yet , as every academic knows , this seemingly elementary axiom has long been obsolete. Indeed , the very meaning of virtue has changed since Emerson's day, when the concept referred to a quality of being acquired through intense introspection and manifested in one's daily relations with others. As currently defined in the academy virtue is simultaneously more tangible and more prosaic. It is the status one acquires through the accumulation of certain types of credits: assignment to prestigious committees, active participation at professional meetings and, especially, a suitably impressive …

Perspectives Vol. 7 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

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The Student: His Self-Satisfaction And His Sense Of Permanency, John Bevan

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Seaborg went on to say: "Let me be quite realistic as I turn to the one force which I believe can do most to help us understand ourselves in society or help us create and fulfill the highest goals which a Cybernetic Revolution might offer. I believe that force is education and that the university should play the leading role." He concluded that in the short decades ahead, there must be a huge re-evaluation of the goals and values of our society and it will be in our universities where such a re-evaluation takes place.

Western News, December 12, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: To Examine Tuition Plans, Faculty Booklet Analyzes Area, 'Met' Greats; Tucker & Merrill; To Perform Jan. 8 at Miller, To Perform; Discuss Two Zupko Compositions On National Radio, Retiring Dean Maus Comments On Student Attitudes; Sports; Future, Anthropology Offers Three New Courses

Western News, December 5, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New Music Festival On, Poet Wendell Berry Visits Here Friday, C/T Appeals Being Heard, Visitor To 'Skin' Skinner Tonight, Placement Center Still Has Many Job Opportunities for Teachers, Friday American Criminology Y.P., McGranahan Heads State Slavic Group, October Gifts & Grants Total $243,312; Trustees Approve Pooled Income Fund, VanDeVenter to Retire; Change Title

Western News, November 21, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bill Doolittle Resigns as Coach; Has 11-Year Mark of 58-49-2, Annual Fund Needs Unified Campus Effort, Campus Exceeds '73 United Way, 'HIM' Tickets On Sale Monday, To Discuss Army Opportunities Dec. 3, Bernhard Cites 'Chief Concerns' in '75-76 Appropriations Base Budget Request Letter

Western News, November 14, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Eight Graduate Students Cited, Boston U. President To Lecture Here, Multinational Corporations, Developing Countries Lecture Here Wednesday, Musical 'Pippin' at Miller Nov. 25, Art Historian Presents Two Lectures Tuesday, Establish Education Monograph Series, Marching Band; Wind Ensemble On Arizona; California Tour, Western Closes Grid Campaign At Long Beach

Western News, November 7, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dowling to Direct 'Playboy' in Shaw Theater Nov. 13-16, Extend United Way Campaign, Annual Dad's Day Saturday, Soviet Dancers Here Nov. 19, German Study For Non-Majors, New President Addresses Academic Forum, Prexy Talk, Release Policy Statement on Use Of University Equipment; Facilities, Cambium Piano Trio To Visit

Western News, October 31, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: King Family Takes Stage at Miller Wed., Publish State Geology Book, 'Purlie' Curtain Up Tonight, Korean Conference Here Next Week, President Forum Speaker Today, Band Spectacular Nov. 8, Memorial Recital in Oakland Nov. 10, Offer Open Military Admissions, Okay $56 Million Budget Request, Broncos Tackle Miami on Road

Western News, October 24, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Name McNally Acting Health Center Director, Cleveland; Local Supts. to Speak, Discuss 'Lousy Lovers' Today, Trustees Approve Revised Tenure Policy, Change Applied Sciences' Names, 'Purlie' to Be Produced on Campus, WMU vs. Ohio on Parent's Day

Western News, October 17, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Health Center; WMU Pledger Medical Care, Ailey Dancers To Spend Three-Day Residency Here, Alumni Assn. Cites Five Faculty, Artists/ Teachers Meet on Campus, Award Dr. Hunt Fulbright Grant, Open House at New Center, University Police Get Radar, Co-Host Trusts; New Tax Seminar, Plan Afternoon of Halftime Shows

Western News, October 10, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Placement Holds 'Career Search', Homecoming 'Untouchable' For Varied Activities, United Way Helps 24 Local Agencies, Arts & Sciences Expand Advising, Seek Applicants For Berlin Study, Primate Curator To Lecture Here, Mrs. Radt Wins Business Award, Senior Citizens Enrolling Here

Western News, October 3, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Gwen Frostic to Visit Campus, Big Bands Coming Here, Iowa Filmmaker Here Tonight, Seek Fulbright-Hays Graduate Applicants, Search Workshop For All Women, Explain Fringe Benefit Changes, Announce Open Insurance Period, WMU Gridders at Kent State, Move Foreign Study Services

University Magaizine Vol. 33 No. 1, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Meet Dr. John T. Bernhard • WMU's Alumni Affairs and Development Office • Specialty Programs in Alcohol & Drug Abuse • Class Notes • Bronco Sports • In Memoriam

Western News, September 26, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Approve New Advising Plan, Campus Briefs, Counseling Center Extends Hours, Trustees Appoint Two Department Charmen; Change Several Titles, Fine Arts Convocation to Welcome Bernhards, Salute Six Bronco Sports Greats, Bowling Green Here Saturday, Harriers Here Against Miami

Western News, September 19, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Goulet Opens Choice Series, Music Dept. to Present New Structures in Sound Series, Expand VA Services; Open New Offices, Girl Struck; Set Memorial Services, To Discuss Economy; Ethnic Community, Court of Four-Right of Appeal-Emergency Cases-Rules of Evidence, Grid Broncos At N. Illinois, Harlem Heyday Here Tuesday, Harriers Face State; Toledo

Western News, September 12, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Extend Insurance Verification Date, Open Student Recreation Building, Previn; London Symphony Open Concert Series, Grant Doubles Student Aid, ROTC Orientation Set Sunday Night, Broncos Face EMU Hurons, Cross Country Season Opens

Western News, September 5, 1974, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Comment on Presidential Residence, Shaw Theatre Opens Sept. 12, Coulter Reflects on Presidency, WMU; Union Ink Contract, Set Gym Classes For Youngsters, Establishes Book Fund in Phillips' Memory, Explain Campus Traffic Changes, Football Opener Here Saturday

A Study To Compare The Expectations Of Parents Of Freshman Students Who Are Attending Four Types Of Institutions Of Higher Learning In The Grand Rapids, Michigan Area, Thomas E. Deschaine

Dissertations

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The Major Functions Of Michigan Public Community College Business Offices, Robert J. Chick

Dissertations

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A Study Of Factors Influencing Enrollment Between The Fall Of 1970 And The Fall Of 1973 In Rural Michigan Community Colleges, Roger W. Boughton

Dissertations

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