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Presidents’ Declaration On The Civic Responsibility Of Higher Education And Campus Assessment Of Civic Responsibility, Thomas Ehrlich

Higher Education

The following statement was drafted by Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and president emeritus, Indiana University, and Elizabeth Hollander, executive director of Campus Compact, with the advice and input of a distinguished Presidents' Leadership Colloquium Committee composed of: Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard University; Dolores Cross, president of Morris Brown College; John DiBiaggio, president of Tufts University; Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College; Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education; Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford University; Charles Knapp, recent past president of the Aspen Institute, Edward A. Malloy, president of …

Merryvale Vineyards Welcomes Paca Saturday, October 16, 1999

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Menu for Merryvale Vineyards event for The President's Advisory Committee on the Arts of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Paca Fall Meeting October 16, 1999

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

President's Advisory Committee on the Arts Fall Meeting agenda for October 16, 199 with handwritten notes.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

• WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
• Moore, Brian. Student Robbed in Parking Structure – Kelly Parker
• Moore, Brian. Women Receive Phone Threats – Harassment
• Brown, Abbey. Flip-Friday Replacement Up for Faculty Review
• Ragan, Jason. Forensics Team Wins at Middle Tennessee State University
• Ragan, Jason. Leonard Kogut Becomes Controller
• Karen, Mattias. Vandalized Statue Will Be Repaired, Relocated – Vandalism, Snell Garden Statues, Four Seasons
• Moore, Brian. Forums for Chief Start Monday – WKU Police
• Temporary Fix Makes Street Even Riskier – University Boulevard, Traffic Accidents
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon University Boulevard Fence
• Oberhausen, Molly. Outsiders Bring …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Lynch, Caroline. Crossing University Boulevard Will Get Tougher – Construction
• Clark, Ryan. Colonels Drench Western – Football
• Moore, Brian. Alcohol & Drug Arrests Up on Campus
• Karen, Mattias. Edward Wolfe Says Faculty Senate Not Down for Count Yet
• Ragan, Jason. Poland Hall Computer Lab Reopens – Information Technology
• Legislation Evidence of Slow Progress – Gays, Lesbians, Fairness Legislation
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon Fairness Legislation
• Chen, Yiqui. Chinese Students Offended by Editorial Cartoon
• Du, Zheyang. Chinese Students Offended by Editorial Cartoon
• Are You Neck-Deep in Credit Card Debt?
• Brown, Abbey. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Bennett, Jacob. Thompson Science Complex Facelift Proposed
• Brewer, Jerry. From Greatest to Latest – Phillimon Hanneck, Bobby, Lutes, Bowling Green 10K Classic
• Moore, Brian. Four Finalists Named in Police Chief Search – WKU Police
• Moore, Brian. Stolen Biology Equipment Still Missing
• Gaines, Jim. Western Explores New Tenure Review Policy – Regents, Faculty
• Ragan, Jason. Professor, Students Poll Citizens on City Services
• Pennington, Dennis. Non-Traditional Students Here to Stay
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon 50 Years of Chinese Communism
• Adams, David. Fairness & Human Rights Commission’s Motives Questionable
• Leffler, Matt. No …

Ua1b5 New Faculty 1999-2000, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

List of new WKU faculty.

Reading, Writing And Service Learning, National Helpers Network, Inc.

School K-12

Cross-age tutoring programs, like the National Helpers Network's "Helpers Promoting Literacy" model, in which middle and high school students serve as reading tutors to younger children, have been popular fixtures in many school service learning programs in recent years. Described by many as "win-win" programs because both the "tutors" and the "tutees" improve their reading skills as a result of participating, these programs are often integrated into English and language arts curricula and give students the opportunity to learn by teaching. But a look at programs throughout the nation shows that service learning practitioners are expanding on that idea and …

Service Strategies And Programs To Help Incarcerated Youth: A Training Program For Volunteers, Teresita Bolivar

Special Topics, General

For more than thirty years, AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members have been serving disadvantaged communities. The program is dedicated to increasing the capability of people to improve the conditions of their lives.

Foster Grandparents are part of the National Senior Service Corps, a network of more than a half-million seniors who are making a difference as volunteers. Since 1965 the Foster Grandparents Program has tapped the experience, skills, talents, interests and creativity of seniors age 55 and older. They serve 20 hours a week in: schools, hospitals, day care centers, homes for abused and abandoned children, Head Start, …

Broadly Speaking - October, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.

The Challenge Of Administration By Regulation: Preliminary Findings Regarding The U.S. Government's Venture Capital Funds, Jonathan G.S. Koppell

Publications from President Jonathan G.S. Koppell

This article assesses the ability of elected officials to control public policy as implemented by public/private hybrid organizations, specifically, government venture capital funds. The study reveals greater control over OPIC investment funds than Enterprise Funds despite the existence of more traditional administrative tools of control for Enterprise Funds. This finding suggests that the regulatory infrastructure for hybrid organizations is more determinative of control than the existence (or lack) of traditional administrative control tools. Thus the challenge of hybrid government centers on the development of regulation as a substitute for administration.

Ua77/4 Uniting The Spirit, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Society of African American Alumni and Minority Student Support Services to promote homecoming events.

The Only Thing You Really Got Is This Minute: Homeless Women Re-Visioning The Future, Kathryn M. Feltey, Laura Nichols

Sociology

As we enter the millennium, growing numbers of women and children join the ranks of the homeless around the globe. ¹ Common factors contributing to homelessness include the feminization of poverty, a shortage of affordable low-income housing and welfare policies focused on short-term relief. Unique factors include war and political upheaval that produce a mobile population of refugees who are homeless.

In thinking about the corning millennium, feminists are challenged to envision a future where the economics and politics of gender do not inevitably produce poverty and homelessness. Homelessness in women's lives is both a symptom and an outcome of …

A Model Job Training Program For Summer Youth: Library Interns At Grambling State University A. C. Lewis Memorial Library, Grambling, Louisiana, Sally Carroll, Sandy Stokley

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

A six-week university library intern program sponsored by the Job Training Partnership Act investigated the impact on 12 economically disadvantaged young persons facing nationally recognized problems pertaining to inadequate reading and math skills, work ethics, job skills, and motivation to complete school. Participants, predominantly (92%) African-American high school students, worked at Grambling State University, an historically black university, under predominantly (85%) African-American supervisors. Interns received academic enrichment, work experience, and life skills, primarily through pre-testing, classroom training, orientations by departmental supervisor, "hands-on" group projects, written assignments, daily reviews, and post-testing. Statistical data verify recommendations in the literature that job training …

Educational Quality And County Government Services: Rural Nebraskans' Perceived Impacts Of Recent And Proposed Legislation, John C. Allen, R. Filkins, Sam Cordes

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Many changes have been occurring in rural Nebraska in the area of local finances. Recent school finance legislation has changed the formula that distributes state aid to schools (LB 806) and also imposed new property tax levy limits on school districts (LB 1114). Discussions have also arisen about consolidating county offices and services. Given all these changes, how do rural Nebraskans feel about these issues? How do they feel the new school finance legislation has affected the quality of education in their local school district? Do they support the consolidation of certain county government offices and services with a neighboring …

Queer Stories: Take Iii Film Series [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A flier promoting Queer Stories film.

Sharing Space: Why Racial Goodwill Isn't Enough, Sharon E. Rush

UF Law Faculty Publications

Racism is understood by most White people to be an attitude of prejudice toward Blacks. In contrast, Blacks define racism more inclusively; it is a system of institutional preferences for Whites, resulting from historically ingrained prejudices Whites have against Blacks. People of goodwill are disinclined to attribute racial connotations to ordinary, everyday negative interactions involving Whites and people of color as long as the Whites are people of goodwill (people who do not think they have prejudiced attitudes). Second, goodwill comfort is important to maintain, causing many Whites to shy away from any discussions about race. People of goodwill have …

Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Paca Response Form, October 14-17, 1999

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Repsonse form for President's Advisory Committee on the Arts Meeting October 14-17, 1999 in San Francisco, California.

Guidelines For Local Calserve Evaluation Reports, California Department Of Education

Evaluation/Reflection

The 1999-2000 Guidelines for CalServe Evaluation Reports are based on the local evaluation process that was initiated in the winter of 1998. The general purpose of the guidelines is to assist each partnership in the writing of its evaluation report. The overarching questions and the content of this year's guidelines are much the same as last year's, as are the mechanisms by which each partnerships to submit information about the outcomes of service-learning for students, teachers, school.school districts, and the community.

Service Learning And Assessment: A Field Guide For Teachers, Susan Bonthron, Rick Gordon

Evaluation/Reflection

Recent advances in understanding the human brain, intelligence, and how we learn¹ indicate that successful schools need to provide
• rich, safe learning environments that address multiple realms of intelligence;
• opportunities for experiential learning to promote construction of knowledge and understanding;
• opportunities to develop both intelligence and skills through mediated learning;
• opportunities to transfer learning through reflection; and
• balanced assessment measures that include portfolios and performance assessments as well as more conventional standardized tests.

Extended Stratification: Immigrant And Native Differences In Individual And Family Labor., Pidi Zhang, Jimy M. Sanders

Faculty Publications

The article outlines a theoretical system of extended stratification in order to account for differences between immigrants and natives in the amount of time individuals devote to paid work and the number of family members participating in paid work. The extended stratification theory contends that because people have different socio-economic frames of reference, they vary in their willingness to work long hours in an effort to achieve modest improvements in their current socioeconomic circumstances. Thus, immigrants from relatively poor societies tend to see their richer host society as abundant in opportunities for getting ahead through hard work. Immigrants will often …

Service-Learning Is A Feminist Issue: Transforming Communication Pedagogy, Eleanor M. Novek

Service Learning, General

How do we "do" emancipatory feminist teaching when we have not observed it or experienced it ourselves? The author argues here that service-learning is a useful strategy for feminist communication educators to begin challenging the power relationships of traditional pedagogy. Pioneered in the 1960s and '70s, this pairing of traditional course work with community service is now used as a learning model in schools around the nation. Because service-learning allows educators to forge relational links between ourselves, our students, our neighbors, and the communities in which we live, it deserves careful consideration from feminist educators.

Report To Congress On Waivers Granted Under The Elementary And Secondary Education Act, Jacqueline Raphael, Kristen M. Olson, Luke Miller

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This is the third annual report to Congress on waivers granted by the U.S. Department of Education, mandated under section 14401(e)(4) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Three education laws passed in 1994 — the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, and the reauthorized ESEA — allow the Secretary of Education to grant waivers of certain requirements of federal education programs in cases where a waiver will likely contribute to improved teaching and learning. States and school districts use the waiver authorities to adapt federal programs and use federal funds in ways that address their …

Comparative Study Of Economic Adjustment And Housing Quality Of Migrants And Natives In The State Of Virginia, Bayram Unal

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

This research has directed attention towards comparing and understanding the characteristics of both native and migrant populations and both recent and long-term migrant populations in the state of Virginia. The research question is: how does migrant population differ from native population? And how do recent migrants differ from long-term migrants in terms of their employment status, occupation, income, home ownership, quality of housing and amount of rent. This study utilizes data from the 5 percent sample of the U.S. 1990 Census. Cross tabulation and analysis of variance are used to compare migrant with native population and recent migrants with long-term …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Lynch, Caroline. City Considering Gay Rights – Lambda Society, Gays, Lesbians
• Karen, Mattias. Virtual School Setting Records – Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University
• Gaines, Jim. Variety of Piety – Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, International Students
• Gaines, Jim. Furniture Purchase Brings New Rules – Huda Melky
• Lynch, Caroline. Student Government Association Proposes Amendments – Constitution
• Gaines, Jim. Huda Melky’s Desks Cost More for Less
• Dining Services Prices Favor Meal Plan Holders
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon Dining Services
• Washburn, Andy. Huda Melky Should Give Something Back to Western
• What’s the Most Disgusting Food …

The Rattler (Volume 86, Issue 2, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Karen, Mattias. Professor Wants $2.2 Million in Race Suit – Virginia Pfohl, Quentin Hollis, Psychology
• Karen, Mattias. Tuition On Rise Again – Budget, Regents
• Gaines, Jim. Expensive Furniture Apparently Missing – Huda Melky
• Moore, Brian. WKU Police Seeking Vandals – Four Season, Snell Garden Statues, Vandalism
• Ragan, Jason. Burn Ban Continues – Drought
• Ragan, Jason. Professor Rewarded – Terry Leeper, Awards
• Lynch, Caroline. Upgraded TopCat System Brings Library Home – University Libraries
• Gaines, Jim. Admissions Standards, Enrollment to Rise
• Furniture Spree Costs Students More Than $18K – Huda Melky …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Gaines, Jim. Huda Melky Spends $18K for Furniture
• Lynch, Caroline. Students Say Scrap Health Fee – Student Health Services, Student Fees
• Mayo, Travis. Dreaming of the Big Dance – Topperettes
• Moore, Brian. Campus Police Chief Candidates to Be Named Next Week – WKU Police
• Moore, Brian. Two Western Parking Lots Getting Emergency Phones with Caller ID – Parking & Transportation Services
• Corcoran, Kate. First Parents Weekend Begins Tomorrow
• Ragan, Jason. Midnight Volleyball III
• Secrecy Shuts Students Out of Tuition Hike – Regents
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon Big Red Breaking …

Family Values And Presidential Elections: The Use And Abuse Of The Family And Medical Leave Act In The 1992 And 1996 Campaigns, Steven K. Wisensale

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article explores how and why the debate on family leave policy became intertwined with the discussion of family values during the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. It covers the emergence of family values in political debates in general and in election-year strategies in particular, the developmental history of family leave policy, including important benchmarks that occurred at both the state and federal levels. It also considers the role played by family values and family leave during the 1992 election and how the family leave bill and at least two other legislative proposals became important components of the discussions about …