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Modern Psychological Studies

No abstract provided.

Gender Ratio And Stereotype Threat In An Academic Setting, Theodore T. Bartholomew

Modern Psychological Studies

The study focused on the impact of stereotype threat effectiveness and gender differences in political knowledge. Sex ratio was manipulated to create conditions in which women significantly outnumbered men, similar to the overall gender ratio of women to men at Creighton University. Seventy-seven participants, 52 female and 25 male, were randomly assigned into two conditions, both of which prompted stereotype threat but differed in the gender ratio. One condition was 75% women to 25% men and the other was an equal gender ratio. The participants were given a ten question quiz of political knowledge followed by a short series of …

Ua12/8 Wku Police - Campus Security Report, 2009, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

This report is designed to provide students, potential students, parents, facility and staff with crime statistics and information on university services and crime prevention programs. These programs are designed to help inform our campus communities about safety practices that will help you reduce the risk of being a crime victim. I feel that these lessons can give people information that they can carry with them beyond college and will help keep them safe for the rest of their lives.

Ua97/8 Ogden College Memorabilia, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Memorabilia has been donated by and collected from various sources. Many of the earliest artifacts have come into the WKU Archives with no surviving documentation.

Most of the items in the collection are for exhibit purposes only. Images may be requested from the WKU Archivist. Items may be pulled for researchers by prior appointment.

If you have items that may be of interest to the WKU Archives, please contact us at the address above. Large three-dimensional objects may be accessioned through the Kentucky Museum. See allied and related materials for a list of these items.

Ua3/1/4 President's Office-Cherry Speeches & Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Addresses, chapel talks, notes and educational and political speeches written and delivered by Henry Hardin Cherry and others typed on loose leaf pages. There are also quotations, reports, wills, correspondence and a political cartoon. Many items have no attribution as to author or source. Other authors include A.C. Burton, A.W. Mell, Mattie McLean and J.S. Dickey. Some items are repeated throughout the series and others have been edited. Volume 5 has been digitized for use by researchers.

Ua94/6/3 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Wku Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Underground publications created by students while attending WKU, includes 1960's/1970's political protest papers such as the Apocalypse and the Expatriate. How to Survive is a guide to courses and professors to avoid and a guide to life in Bowling Green for university students. The Big Red Tool a 21st century satirical take on WKU is also found here.

Ua3/3/3 President's Office-Thompson Awards, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Awards given to Kelly Thompson during the course of his career at WKU.

Ua94/7/3 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Training School Marion Adams, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Marion Adams and collected by him during his years at WKU Training School and College High. The collection includes school books, correspondence and report cards.

Ua94/7/1 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Training Schools Small Collections, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Small collections of items regarding students/alumni of the Training Schools. Some items have been digitized and made available online through TopScholar in Student/Alumni Personal Papers.

Ua100/2/5 Training School & College High Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about the Training School and College High. Includes catalogs, schedules and student newspapers.

Ua100/2/2 Training School & College High Departments, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Training School / College High departments which inlude Athletics, Classes, English, Library, Music and Theatre.

Ua94/6/2 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Hilltoppers Quartet, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Hilltoppers quartet. The collection includes phonograph records, copies of scrapbooks, promotional materials and sheet music.

Ua3/3/1 President's Office-Thompson Subject/Correspondence File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence to and from WKU President Kelly Thompson regarding university administration and other issues, arranged alphabetically by subject and correspondent.

Ua100/2/4 Training School & College High Parent Teacher Association, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Training School / College High Parent Teacher Association. Includes bylaws, meeting minutes, programs, awards and scrapbooks.

Ua19/5 Women's Basketball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by women's basketball coaches regarding the team, schedules and awards.

Ua19/2 Athletics - Basketball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by basketball coaches regarding athletes, activities, conferences and tournaments.

Ua19/6 Track & Cross Country, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by track and field coaches regarding awards, meets and schedules.

Ua19/11 Golf, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by golf coaches regarding schedules.

Ua19/3 Athletics - Football, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by football coaches regarding athletes, activities, conferences and tournaments.

Ua60/2 Library Science, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the department of Library Science.

Ua19/8 Volleyball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by volleyball coaches regarding camps and team.

Ua94/6/6 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Goldie Curd, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Goldia McKeel Dunn Curd.

Ua77/2/1 Alumni Relations Events Annual Banquet / Hall Of Distinguished Alumni, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Invitations, programs and recordings of annual events sponsored by the Alumni Association such as the Alumni Banquet and Hall of Distinguished Alumni induction.

Status And Prospects For The Wisconsin Dairy Goat Sector, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The Wisconsin dairy goat industry is a diverse, vibrant and robust sector that has grown rapidly over the last decade. Goat milk output has increased several-fold in the last ten years, and retail markets for goat cheese appear to be increasing at double-digit annual rates. The most recent data shows just over 200 licensed farms in Wisconsin in 2009. According to 2006 numbers, Wisconsin dairy goat farms were milking an average of 118 does that produced 1,416 lbs. On average, Wisconsin dairy goat farms were both larger and more productive on a per animal basis than farms in any other …

Fairy Tale Films, Pauline Greenhill, Sidney Eve Matrix

All USU Press Publications

In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, "the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress)." As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, “Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas and commercials, in comic books and cartoons, in school plays and storytelling performances, in our superstitions and prayers for miracles, and in our dreams and daydreams. …

Exploring Desert Stone, Steven K. Madsen

All USU Press Publications

The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the West. The first U.S. government expedition to explore the canyon country and the Four Corners area was led by John Macomb of the army's topographical engineers. The soldiers and scientists followed in part the Old Spanish Trail, whose location they documented and verified. Seeking to find the confluence of the Colorado and the Green and looking …

Digital Commons Annual Report: Year Two 2009-2010, Heather Leary

Digital Commons Reports

This report shows the progress for Utah State University's Digital Commons repository during it's second year, from Noveber 1, 2009 through October 31, 2010.

Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Wku Honors College Fact Book, Wku Honors College

WKU Administration Documents

Publication promoting WKU Honors College and highlighting activities of students Jennifer Dooper, Khalela Hatchett, Joe Chavarria-Smith, Rachel Reetzke and Jonathan Brantley.

Marginalia No. 28, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

No abstract provided.