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Pennington, Brenda Kaye (Fa 1244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Pennington, Brenda Kaye (Fa 1244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1244. Student folk studies project titled “Country stores in Lincoln County, [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with narrative descriptions of general stores in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the building, its history, and photos.


Ua94/6/1 Big Red & The Little Corvette, Carrie Cox Jan 2019

Ua94/6/1 Big Red & The Little Corvette, Carrie Cox

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Carrie Cox remembers Big Red and his little corvette.


Staff Council Book Scholarship Winners, Wku Staff Council Jan 2019

Staff Council Book Scholarship Winners, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Notification of book scholarship winners.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Jan 2019

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of January 9, 2019 meeting.


Scott Family - Letters To (Sc 3318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Scott Family - Letters To (Sc 3318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3318. Letters to the Scott family of Ashland, Kentucky, chiefly to Sarah Asenath Scott from Fred Osborne, written from Clinchco, Virginia prior to their marriage. Fred refers to his work and health, their marriage plans, and a pending legal case. Other letters to Sarah are from childhood friends and classmates and friends of her mother. Includes a family letter to Sarah’s mother, and letters to her father from his sister and her children in Knoxville, Tennessee, which refer to farming operations and hopes for an improved economy under the new president, Franklin Roosevelt.


Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (Sc 3316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (Sc 3316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3316. Letters, 28 July and 18 November 1931, of Gilbert Cowan, written to his brother Finley Cowan in Cannons Mill, Clinton County, Kentucky, while Gilbert was an inmate at the Kentucky State Reformatory in Frankfort, Kentucky. He asks Finley to help arrange a recommendation for him to the superintendent of the prison school, and doubts that he, unlike other inmates, will be able to apply for a reduced sentence. He also wishes he could attend church with Finley in order to “get me a gal.” The institutional …


Green, Mary Jo (Fa 1243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Green, Mary Jo (Fa 1243), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1243. Student folk studies project titled “Dolls of Adair County,” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of various types of dolls owned by collectors in Adair County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of the doll, materials, history, and photo.


Newton, Gil (Fa 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Newton, Gil (Fa 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1242. Student folk studies project titled “Housing [Clark County, Indiana],” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of structures in the area surrounding Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. Sheets may include a brief description of the structure, location, history, floor plan, and photo.


Retention Of Child Welfare Caseworkers: The Wisdom Of Supervisors, Austin G. Griffiths, Patricia Desrosiers, Jay Gabbard, David Royse, Kristine Piescher Jan 2019

Retention Of Child Welfare Caseworkers: The Wisdom Of Supervisors, Austin G. Griffiths, Patricia Desrosiers, Jay Gabbard, David Royse, Kristine Piescher

Social Work Faculty Publications

Child welfare supervisors have a unique vantage point, leading local service delivery efforts while representing a larger organizational bureaucracy. They also play a key role in workforce stability, as high caseworker turnover remains a real problem that affects clients, communities, and agency budgets. Using a qualitative thematic content analysis to analyze data collected from a sample of public child welfare supervisors in a southern state (n=117), findings from this study provide suggestions for systematically addressing workforce turnover through the unique perspective of the child welfare supervisor. Supervisors made recommendations to improve agency infrastructure, organizational climate, and organizational culture as areas …


Ua19/16/1 Lady Topper Basketball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2019

Ua19/16/1 Lady Topper Basketball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2019-20 women's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.


Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2019

Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases regarding WKU's softball team for 2019.


Ua19/16/2 Track & Field Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2019

Ua19/16/2 Track & Field Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases regarding WKU's track and field teams for 2019.


Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2019

Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU baseball team in 2019.


Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations Jan 2019

Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases regarding WKU's volleyball team for 2019.


Faraway Flix: Connecting To International Students Through Film, Laura Bohuski Jan 2019

Faraway Flix: Connecting To International Students Through Film, Laura Bohuski

DLTS Faculty Publications

WKU has, at any given time, about 20,000 students enrolled in university programs across four campuses. WKU is a campus that is actively engaged in making international connections, so much so that its current vision statement asserts that WKU is “a leading American university with international reach.”1 Western’s drive to establish and maintain international connections has been successful: of the 20,000 students currently attending WKU, 1,300 are international students from 70 seventy different countries.2 With such a diverse student population, many of the departments at Western are actively engaged in developing programs to help connect our extensive international population with …


Ua18/1 Facet - Publications, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua18/1 Facet - Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET).


Ua66/1/4 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Dean's Office Student & Faculty Organizations, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/1/4 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Dean's Office Student & Faculty Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about student and faculty organizations in the Ogden College of Science & Engineering.


Ua12/2/24 International Club, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua12/2/24 International Club, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the International Club.


Ua12/2/54 Class Of 1930, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua12/2/54 Class Of 1930, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Class of 1930.


Ua1c2/74 L.T. Smith Stadium Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c2/74 L.T. Smith Stadium Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of L.T. Smith Stadium, originally named Academic Athletic Building Number 2. Includes images of Feix Field.


Ua1c2/67 Red Barn Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c2/67 Red Barn Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Red Barn.


Ua1c2/6 Barracks Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c2/6 Barracks Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the barracks


Ua35/11/1 Chinese Flagship & Confucius Institute, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua35/11/1 Chinese Flagship & Confucius Institute, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Chinese Flagship program and Confucius Institute.


Ua1c4/14 Dignitaries/Entertainers/Visitors Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c4/14 Dignitaries/Entertainers/Visitors Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of groups of visitors, entertainers and dignitaries.


Ua51/3/3 University Libraries Library Special Collections Publications, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua51/3/3 University Libraries Library Special Collections Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about Library Special Collections.


Ua12/2/36 Gamma Sigma Sigma, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua12/2/36 Gamma Sigma Sigma, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Gamma Sigma Sigma at Western Kentucky University.


Ua1c11/5 Athletic Media Relations Photo Collection - Track & Field, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c11/5 Athletic Media Relations Photo Collection - Track & Field, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs taken by Athletic Media Relations staff members of WKU athletic faculty, staff, students, alumni and events. This section focuses on track and field.


Ua101/1 Society For Values In Higher Education Bylaws / Charter, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua101/1 Society For Values In Higher Education Bylaws / Charter, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Bylaws and charter documents created by The Society for Values in Higher Education


Ua37/30/3 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison Wku Book, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua37/30/3 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison Wku Book, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Drafts and other records related to the publishing of Lowell Harrison's book Western Kentucky University.


Ua84 Sigma Chi, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua84 Sigma Chi, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the WKU chapter of Sigma Xi.