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Ua3/4/7 President's Office-Downing Personal Papers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Dero Downing.

Ua11/3 Public Affairs Building & Construction File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding campus buildings and construction projects used for writing press releases. Includes construction information sheets, press releases and clippings from newspapers around the state.

Ua1c11/47 Mae Pedigo Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs removed from Mae Pedigo scrapbook of Rural Training School.

Ua68/4/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Political Science Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about the Political Science Department.

Ua12/2/38 Congress Debating Club, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Congress Debating Club including minute books, programs, club constitution, and more.

Ua68/7/2/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Modern Languages Student Organizations Le Cercle Francais, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the French Club, known as Le Cercle Francais.

Ua68/7/2/4 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Modern Languages Student Organizations Gamma Sigma Alpha, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Eta Eta chapter of Gamma Sigma Alpha (Greek Honor Society).

Ua94/7/2 Student/Alumni Personal Papers Training School Mary Grise, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Mary Grise and collected by her during her years at College High. Mary participated in forensics, drama and music festivals hosted by Western Kentucky University and other organizations in Kentucky. She was elected as a delegate to the American Legion's Girl State and went on to represent Kentucky in Washington, D.C. at Girls Nation. The collection includes scrapbooks, correspondence and papers related to all her college activities. Photographs have been removed to UA1C11.69 Mary Grise Photograph Collection.

Ua68/17/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Western Players / Summer Players, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Western Players theater group including the Summer Players.

Ua1c11/70 Talisman Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Transparencies created by Talisman photographers for publication in the yearbook.

Ua37/37 Faculty Personal Papers Arndt Stickles, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Arndt Stickles, WKU History professor from 1908-1954. The collection includes articles, speeches, lecture notes and correspondence.

Ua3/8/1 President's Office-Meredith Correspondence / Subject File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence and subject files created by the President's Office during Thomas Meredith's tenure as president of WKU.

Ua1b3/5 Cherry Statue Committee, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Cherry Statue Committee in the course of raising funds for and directing the creation of the Henry Cherry Statue by sculptor Lorado Taft. Records created include meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, financial records and dedication programs.

A Research Project Focused On Involving Parents With Behavior Program At Home, Susan M. Tucker

Doctoral Research Project

No abstract provided.

Entrepreneurship: Theory And Application In A University Arts Management Setting, Paul Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

This article explores the applicability of entrepreneurship as an academic course of study with respect to the broader area of arts management pedagogy. A historical overview of primary texts ranging from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries serves as a preface for a discipline-based perspective of its twentieth-century articulations. Primary theoretical exponents reveal the economic, sociological, and psychological underpinnings of entrepreneurship as it is developed as an academic topic. Mahoney and Michael’s subjectivist theory informs the relationship between entrepreneurship and the study of creative and cultural industries. Recommendations for specific pedagogical application include structuring and content for in-class activities and outreach …

Engagement In Activities And Cognitive Functioning Among Older Adults In The Health And Retirement Study, Pamela Emily May

Wayne State University Dissertations

The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effect of cognitive and social activities on cognitive performance and health conditions in a national sample of older adults from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This dissertation first aimed to identify longitudinal relations between activity frequency and cognitive functioning. Two hypotheses were tested, baseline activity frequency predicts change in cognitive functioning over time, and baseline cognitive performance predicts change in activity frequency over time. The dissertation’s second aim was to identify links between activity frequency and cognitive trajectories. The third aim was to identify longitudinal relations between activity frequency and …

A Structural Equation Model Of Factor Two Psychopathy, Behavioral Activation, Positive Alcohol Expectancies, And Alcohol Use, Benjamin Varner Laliberte

Wayne State University Theses

A large body of literature indicates that there is a relationship between psychopathy and heavy drinking. Very few studies, however, have examined potential mediators of this relationship. As a result, it is difficult to develop intervention strategies that target early steps in the psychopathy/alcohol use pathway. The present study tested a structural equation model linking secondary psychopathy to alcohol use through the influence of both behavioral activation and positive alcohol expectancies. The study was also one of the first to utilize both self-report and laboratory measures of behavioral activation.

A Quantitative Analysis Of Fear Of Retaliation In A Cooperation Model, Jordan Papp

Wayne State University Theses

Past qualitative research has shown that fear of retaliation influences an individual's willingness to cooperate with the police. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively examine the influence that fear of retaliation has on a citizen's willingness to cooperate with the police. This study also examined both normative and instrumental motivations for cooperating with the police to understand which motivations are more salient at explaining willingness to cooperate with the police. Data for this study were collected from 408 Detroit homes in 2009 from three different neighborhoods where homes were selected randomly from those neighborhoods. Results indicate that the …

The Impact Of Voter Suppression Laws On African American Participation In Florida And North Carolina From 1988 To 2012, Anthony Lewis Daniels

Wayne State University Dissertations

A rich body of research presents conflicting accounts describing how contemporary voter suppression laws impact political participation. This study process traces the political development of North Carolina and Florida from 1988 to 2012 to assess four competing explanations of this process. This study compares three measures of participation that strongly support the discouraging voter hypothesis, which finds that voter suppression laws depress black participation.

This study finds that state officials in Florida adopted a much stricter voter suppression regime than those in North Carolina for the period under study. As a result, the two states developed differing levels of democratization. …

Education For Disaster Risk Reduction Toward Change: The Case Of The 'Climate Change Academy' In Albay Province, Philippines, Claudine Claridad Tanvir

Journal of Social Sciences

The increasing frequency of disaster risks due to natural hazards such as typhoons that hit the Philippines over the past years has become a major concern of disaster risk reduction managers especially in the Province of Albay - a typhoon highway of the country. Local and national legislations have begun to address this issue by means of capacitating the local government units (LGUs) so that communities can prepare, respond and recover (better) from the impact of disasters. The purpose of this paper is to examine the contribution of the government-led education program through the 'Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk …

รัฐราชการไทยในสมัยพลเอกเปรม ติณสูลานนท์: ปัญหาระบอบประชาธิปไตยครึ่งใบ (2523 - 2531) The Thai Bureaucratic Polity During The General Prem Tinsulanonda Period: The Problems Of Semi-Democratic Regime (1980 -1988), อดินันท์ พรหมพันธ์ใจ

Journal of Social Sciences

แม้ว่ารัฐไทยจะมีการปรับโครงสร้างทางเศรษฐกิจการเมืองในช่วงทศวรรษที่ 1980 แต่โครงสร้างที่ ไม่เป็นทางการของสังคมหรือค่านิยมของสังคมไทยกลับยังคงไม,เปลี่ยนแปลง บทความนี้นำเสนอโครงสร้าง อำนาจที่เกิดจากระบอบประชาธิปไตยครึ่งใบของรัฐไทยในสมัยพลเอกเปรม ด้วยการอธิบายเปรียบเทียบ พัฒนาการเซิงสถาบันของระบอบประชาธิปไตยครึ่งใบ โดยใช้มุมมองจากแนวคิดสถาบันนิยมใหม่เซิง ประวัติศาสตร์เป็นหลัก เสริมด้วยแนวคิดความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างรัฐและสังคม และแนวคิดโครงสร้างนิยม จากการศึกษาพบว่ารัฐไทยมีการปรับโครงสร้างอำนาจในลักษณะเผด็จการที่มีการผนึกกำลังกันภายในระบบ ราชการระหว่างทหารกับเทคโนแครต (authoritarian military-technocratic alliance) อีกทั้งยังมีการดึงนักการเมือง และนักธุรกิจซนชั้นกลางที่ยอมรับได้กับอำนาจแบบเผด็จการเข้าร่วมสร้างความเข้มแข็งให้กับระบบราชการไทย ในทุกมิติ กลายเป็น "รัฐราชการแบบเปิด (open bureaucratic polity)" ที่มีโครงสร้างอำนาจใหม่ที่เรียกว่า "ระบอบประชาธิปไตยครึ่งใบ (semiขdemocratic regime)" ที่ไม่ใช่การประนีประนอมอำนาจด้งคำอธิบายชุดเดิม แต่เป็นการปรับตัวของรัฐไทยในภาวะวิกฤตที่ดึงเอากลุ่มพลังอำนาจนอกระบบราชการที่ยอมรับในอำนาจ เผด็จการเข้าสู่กระบวนการทางนโยบาย ส่งผลให้รัฐราชการไทยเข้มแข็งและมีการผลิตค่านิยมแบบศักดินา ราชูปถัมภ์ครอบทับลังคมไทยไว้ ระบอบนี้จึงใช้แก้ปัญหารัฐไทยในภาวะวิกฤต แต่ไม่อาจแก้ไขปัญหาทาง เศรษฐกิจ ความชอบธรรมทางการเมือง ความมั่นคง และการพัฒนาประชาธิปไตยของรัฐไทยได้อย่างมั่นคงและ ยั่งยืน

Closing The Gap: Greater Retention And Achievement Through Service-Learning At Wayne State University, Monita H. Mungo

Wayne State University Dissertations

Despite the ideals of the achievement ideology that invade every facet of American life, there remains a large population of people who are not able to access the basic tool – education – needed to make the American dream a reality. The lack of educational opportunities for Americans of color is an important social issue because their systemic exclusion from higher education has significant implications for America’s economic future beyond social justice and equality. Americans espouse the ideology of equality and opportunity, and the educational system has always been structured on the notion of preparing individuals with skills for the …

Legal Research Using Technological Tools: Librarians' View, Lauren M. Collins, Susan Silver, Whitney Curtis

Law Faculty Contributions to Books

The technology revolution has impacted every aspect of our daily lives. It is hard to imagine a world without smartphones and the Internet. Where and how we access information has changed dramatically over the last decade. Gone are the days of traveling to the library check out books and read printed journal articles. No longer simply storehouses of print information, libraries but now serve as starting points for searching online information that can be be accessed anywhere, any time and on any device. Library research that used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes. Online materials …

Transgender Rememberance Week [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A poster promoting Transgender Rememberance Week.

Dragaganza [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A poster promoting Dragaganza event.

Center For Multicultural Education Presents First Friday [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A poster promoting presentations by the Center for Multicultural Education.

Pausing At The Threshold, Patrick K. Morgan

Faculty Publications

Threshold concepts are increasingly inescapable at library conferences and in general information literacy discourse, and this visibility will likely only increase as they figure so prominently in the Association of College and Research Libraries inchoate Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Nevertheless, very little has been done to critically consider the wider intellectual ramifications of certain assumptions fundamental to their manifestation in library/information literacy instruction. This paper is an initial attempt to promote such discussions.

Global Exposure And Global Perceptions: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Students In China, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, And The Usa, Deirdre D. Johnston, Rika Hanamitsu

Faculty Publications

This study compares the global perceptions and exposure of students who have come to age in the era of global communication, across ideologically and economically different nations: China, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the USA. To examine the type and level of their global exposure and the impact of type and level of global exposure on perceptions of global communication, 21 global exposure items and 31 global communication impact items were used to comprise scales for a survey, which was administered to 1360 college students in six countries. The results show significant differences by country in all five …

International Management: Strategic Opportunities And Cultural Challenges, Paul B. Sweeney, Dean B. Mcfarlin

Management and Marketing Faculty Publications

As the economies of many countries become more interrelated, international managers are facing huge challenges and unique opportunities associated with their roles. Now in its fifth edition, Sweeney and McFarlin's International Management embodies a balanced and integrated approach to the subject, emphasizing the strategic opportunities available to firms on a global playing field, as well as exploring the challenges of managing an international workforce.

Integrating theory and practice across all chapter topics, this book helps students to learn, grasp, and apply the underlying principles of successful international management:

• Understanding the broad context of international business, including the critical trends impacting …

Social Maintenance Of Oppressive Structures, Stephen Gabourel

Master's Theses

This study intends to explore the ways in which religiously based parenting may serve as a vehicle for shaping personal attitudes about sexuality. As a result of their belief systems, increasingly religious parents are likely to adopt different parenting strategies than non-religious parents.

When a combination of authoritarian values and a particular adherence to conservative theology characterizes parenting, this may be responsible for the construction of distinct mindsets in young individuals. Parents that score high in fundamentalism and authoritarianism could exhibit a greater chance of raising children with beliefs similar to their own.

Through use of quantitative measures, this study …