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Premarital Education: Participation, Attitudes, And Relation To Marital Adjustment In A Sample From Northern Utah, Bryan D. Ramboz

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes, participation in, and potential effectiveness of premarital education as a vehicle to promote more satisfying marriages. A retrospective survey instrument, including existing measures of religious values, willingness to invest in marriage, and marital satisfaction, was used to gather data to answer research questions related to couples' participation in, and attitudes about premarital education, and their influence on marital adjustment and satisfaction. Information about the amount of Time spent in premarital education, breadth of Topics covered, Training of the provider, and whether or not Testing was performed also was gathered and …

The Case Of Youth Gangs In The Mormon Cultural Region A Synthetic, Dialectical Theory Of Social Problems: Bridging Social Constructionism And Objectivism, Ramona Avis Linville Higley

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This dissertation uses the case of youth gangs in the Mormon Cultural Region to present a synthetic, dialectical theory of social problems, bridging the perspectives of social constructionism and objectivism. The primary assertion of this dissertation is that communities use social problems as tools to establish and maintain social boundaries and to protect the core values and beliefs of the established communal order.

The case of youth gangs in Utah, core of the Mormon Cultural Region, demonstrates that both social problems and the organizations involved with social problems follow a natural-history cycle similar to that reported in social movement literature. …

An Assessment Of Marital Satisfaction, Marital Adjustment, And Problematic Areas During The First Few Months Of Marriage Among A Sample Of Newlyweds In Utah, David G. Schramm

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A self-selected sample of 232 newlywed husbands and wives in Utah was surveyed to assess marital satisfaction, marital adjustment, and problematic areas during the first few months of marriage. The study utilized the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS) and the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), in addition to a list of30 potential problematic areas created by Creighton University to measure these constructs.

Although the majority of the newlyweds in this sample were fairly satisfied and well adjusted, 11% of both husbands and wives scored in the distressed range on the RDAS, signaling that the first few months of marriage can …

Amenity Migration And Social Change: Expanding The Concept Of Community Attachment And Its Relationship To Dimensions Of Well-Being In The Rural West, Joan M. Brehm

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Most sociological analyses of community attachment have focused on the strength of attachment, with little concern for the qualities or attributes of a place to which people become attached. In cases where dimensions of attachment are the focus of analysis, the literature is rather narrowly focused on social dimensions, referring most often to connections with family, friends, and other social networks and largely ignoring the realm of natural environment factors. Two primary premises motivated this study. First, sociological understandings of community attachment would benefit from an expanded analytic framework that incorporates more complex arrays of both social and natural environment …

Reviewed Work: Regional Cuisines Of Medieval Europe By Melitta Weiss-Adamson, Ed., Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Tools For Inclusion: Four Strategies To Find A Good Job: Advice From Job Seekers With Disabilities, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Doris Hamner, Jennifer Bose

Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

An ICI study with job seekers revealed four strategies that can make it easier to find a job.

International Drug Trafficking: Police Corruption On The Us/Mexico Border, John Jacob Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of this thesis was to examine contemporary extralegal factors for the causation of drug-specific police corruption, particularly drug trafficking on the US/Mexico Border. Police included only those officers who were commissioned by municipalities. The researcher focused on a particular geographical area of the US border region consisting of a quad-county area, which includes Willacy, Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron Counties. This region was ideal for its unique demographic composition and location. This is qualitative research based on grounded theory, which consisted of purposive and snowball sampling. There was no hypothesis due to the inductive nature of this research. The …

Learning That Matters, Shelley H. Billig

Special Topics, General

In Georgia, kindergarten and first-grade students conduct a community mapping activity to figure out the needs of the children within the school. Kindergartners new to the school say that the school layout is confusing and it is hard to find their way to the classrooms. Each class considers solutions, and students decide to label the hallways with street signs. Each class brainstorms potential names for the hallways, and first grade students design and conduct a survey. They eliminate names that do not represent positive images. (No Shock Street because it would scare the five-year-olds.) The surveys are administered, the data …

El Milagro: The Miracle Of Service Learning On The Border, Kathleen A. Baca, Elizabeth J. Gutierrez, Luly Valencia-Glenn

Diversity

In 2000, DoZa Ana Branch Community College (DABCC) received a grant from the American Association of Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning program to develop service learning in southern New Mexico. Poised on the United States- Mexico border, DABCC serves a population that includes 40% colonia residents. Colonias are communities within 150 miles of the border that lack basic infrastructure such as paved roads, water and sewage treatment facilities, and adequate housing. DABCC has developed community partnerships with colonia residents and with agencies that provide services within the colonias. In their presentation, a DABCC team will describe service learning …

Is It Time For Unlv To Reform Its Classified Personnel System?, John H. Mueller

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a fast growing institution and is the largest public university in Nevada. However, it cannot create its own rules for the administration of its classified personnel system. Many large public universities possess this ability and function independently. This is in direct contrast to the traditional role of other state agencies and the administration of civil service rules for their classified personnel. This paper addresses the prevalence of independent classified personnel systems in public universities and presents a review of current movements in that direction. The paper also presents a case study of …

Consumptive Water Use At The Mirage Hotel And The Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino In Las Vegas, Nevada, Johann A. Feller

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Las Vegas Valley is one of the driest regions in the southwest United States. Due to limited water supplies from the Colorado River, rainfall, and groundwater sources, the water requirements of the valley’s growing population is slated to surpass the current available water supply. The purpose of this comparative study is to quantify the amount of consumptive water used at a major Las Vegas resort/casino in one year. This, being of importance, because of the resort/casino industry’s role as one of the largest, most visible, and most resource intensive industries in the Las Vegas valley. The goal of this …

Seniors In Public Housing, Jan Mutchler, Francis G. Caro

Gerontology Institute Publications

In recent years, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) discovered that nearly 40% of the seniors (residents aged 62 and over) living in their public housing developments were living in family housing developments rather than in senior/disabled housing developments. Administrators at the BHA were aware that some seniors lived in family developments, but they were committed to learning more systematically about this population and their needs. They turned to the Gerontology Institute at the University at Massachusetts Boston as a partner in this effort. With funding from the Boston Foundation, the collaboration resulted in a research and policy development effort on …

Chinese Parents’ Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices About Sexuality Education For Adolescents In The Family, Wenli Liu, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

This study used a cross-sectional, multi-site survey design to examine Chinese parents’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the area of sexuality education for adolescents. Three cities in China were selected for the survey, and the final sample contained 841 parents with children ranged from 11 to 19 years. The majority of Chinese parents were found to have reasonably accurate knowledge about sexuality and positive attitudes toward sexuality and sexuality education. However, most Chinese parents reported that they never talked with their children about sexuality. Parental education was strongly related to both knowledge and attitudes. Gender of parent was a significant …

A Culture Of Relationships: Early Care For Italian And American Children, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

A culture of childhood is a shared vision – an agreed upon vision – of the needs and rights of children, including ideas about how the people of the community can collectively nurture them and at the same time be renewed by them. In other words, it is a set of values, beliefs, and practices that people have created to guide their way of nurturing young children and their families. The vision is about investing in young children and investing in the supports and relationships that children need to learn and grow, both for the reason that children carry our …

Community Correlates Of Rural Youth Violence, D. Wayne Osgood, Jeff M. Chambers

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

Rates of crime and delinquency vary widely across communities, and research going back many decades provides a good understanding of the nature, correlates, and probable causes of these community differences. Unfortunately, previous studies have been limited in an important way. Virtually all studies of communities and crime are based on large urban areas, almost totally excluding nonmetropolitan areas—that is, rural areas and smaller cities and towns. The findings in this Bulletin help to fill some gaps in the research by examining variations in rates of juvenile violence across nonmetropolitan communities in Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, and South Carolina.

Social disorganization is …

Maternal Involvement In Preschoolers' Sexuality Education: A Comparison Of Single And Married Mothers, Ginger S. Sandweg

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study examined the responses to a sexuality education questionnaire completed by 30 single mothers and 43 married mothers with preschool-aged children. Chi-square analyses were used to examine differences between married mothers and single mothers; mothers of males and mothers of females; and married mothers of males, married mothers of females, single mothers of males and single mothers of females. Age at which their preschool children first exhibited behaviors, frequency of that behavior, and comfort level of mothers' responses to those behaviors were addressed for each topic: male-female differences, reproduction and birth, privacy or modesty, taboo or obscene words, genital …

Organizational Accomplishments & Challenges Of The Milwaukee Community Service Corps, Jay T. Brennan

Student Research – Stevenson Center

In this capstone paper I describe the history and nature of the youth corps movement and also my personal experiences as a project design coordinator with the Milwaukee Community Service Corps (MCSC). Accomplishments and challenges are explored from this perspective relying on the community development literature as well as my expertise in community development to support the findings. I highlight several methods for overcoming some of the fundamental challenges faced by organizations such as a service corps and their funding agencies. I conclude the paper by arguing that the organization serves the City of Milwaukee in numerable ways and with …

Female Sexual Arousal And Race: A Comparison Study, Katrenia Y. Reed Hughes

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1986) suggests that individuals differ in sexual behavior according to societal expectancies. Therefore, there may be differences in sexual responsiveness between African American and European American females, particularly to different sexual stimuli. However, few studies have investigated female sexuality and virtually none have investigated African American female sexuality. The present two-part study assessed African American and European American women's subjective sexual arousal to erotic films that vary in the ethnicity of the actors. Study one assessed participants' willingness to engage in interracial relationships, levels of sex guilt, and levels of sensation seeking. One hundred and twenty-one …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 55, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. Alum Gives $500K – Dick Frockt
• Brown, Abbey. One Wrong Turn – Tyler Twyman, Drunk Driving
• Coffman, Josh. Students Take Part in Evening of Dance
• Sebastian, Kandace. Travel Plans Canceled – SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• McBride, Ryan. Driving Under Influence Proves Costly in Time & Money
• Late Fee Increases Should Be Rare
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon re: Student Fees
• Nett, Corey. How Accessible is Western?
• Walker, Logan. Ray Harper Shouldn’t Have Been Overlooked
• Brown, Abbey. Escapee Caught in Front of Cherry Hall – Tammy Kinniard
• North, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 54, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. Campaign Goal May Be Reached Tomorrow
• Hoang, Mai. Forensics Sweeps Contests
• Sebastian, Kandace. Politician Shares Experiences – Rebecca Jackson
• Sasseen, Jessica. Committee Recommends Four Student Fee Increases
• Hardin, Adriane. $36 Fee Would Cover Cost to Expand Parking Structure
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Administrators Work to Accommodate Teachers
• Donations Could Benefit All on Western’s Campus
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon re: Finals
• Dirkes, Michael. Complaining About Taxes Does No Good
• Revolution 91.7. 91.7 Appreciates Referendum Support
• Mills, Zach. College Students Are the Mature Ones, Right?
• Sasseen, Jessica. Committee Proposes Room Names …

Ua3/9/5 Alive Center Speech Talking Points, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Talking points used by President Gary Ransdell at the opening of the ALIVE Center. Includes press release regarding Mitch McConnell's health issues and press release regarding the ALIVE Center.

The Rattler (Volume 90, Issue 6, 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. 78, No. 53, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. Couple Donates $750K to Athletics, Education
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Innovation & Commercialization Center Expands Markets
• North, Amber. Back in the Hunt – Softball
• Robinson, Jocelyn. Students Showcase Work at Film & Video Festival
• Rebecca Jackson to Speak
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Women’s Studies Awards
• Sebastian. Kandace. Three Elected to Staff Council
• Lord, Joseph. Greenview Donating $475,000
• Brown, Abbey. Student Charged with Assault – Jamie Byrd
• Faculty Should Take Faculty Senate Seriously
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon re: Faculty Senators Missing Meetings
• Castleberry, Glenn. Suicide Must Be Discussed
• Bogard, Matt. Taxes an …

Trends. Espionage And Sex: A Commentary On Personnel Security Criteria, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses one aspect of sexual orientation – homosexuality - in a security and intelligence context.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. It’s Good to Be Home – Darrin Horn
• Lord, Joseph. Faculty Senate Questions Function
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Organization Enhancing Role of Women – Women’s Alliance
• Lord, Joseph. Campaign Launched to Increase Awareness
• Mills, Zach. Students Share Struggles – Iraq War
• Hoang, Mai. Concert Features Students – Western Wind Ensemble
• Warren, Brandy. Computer Virus Lecture
• Wavering Toppers Should Stick It Out – Basketball
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon: To Transfer or Not to Transfer – Basketball
• Pike, Daniel. Double Standard for Dennis Felton, Players Unfair
• Vann, Michael. Coach Dennis Felton …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 51, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. Ralph Willard, Darrin Horn Top List
• Robinson, Jocelyn. A Crowning Moment – Miss Black Western, Katherine Sharber
• Sasseen, Jessica. Diddle Arena Nearing Finish
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Sigma Kappa, Phi Delta Theta Win Tug of War
• Brown, Abbey. Former Student Dies in Crash – Derek Owsley
• All Not Lost in Dennis Felton’s Departure
• Kirby, Richard. Capt. Eugene Hoofer Will Be Missed
• Kidd, Jennifer. Woman’s Story Made Student Think – Liz Murray
• Pearce-Ford Tower Alarm Puller Needs a New Hobby
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon re: World’s Worst Criminals
• Toone, Stephanie. …

Discourse And Civil Repair: Disclosure Interviews Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jessica Hollis, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Brett Smith

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Book Review: David Bell And Jon Binnie, The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics And Beyond. Cambridge: Polity, 2000., Keith Woodward

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Persuading Students To Care: Eugene Lang's Program Aims To Prod Colleges Into Encouraging Civic Involvement, Jeffrey R. Young

Special Topics, General

Democracy in America is at risk, and colleges are not doing enough about it, says Eugene M. Lang, a philanthropist known for tackling large problems in education. Colleges may say they encourage good citizenship, he says, but their efforts are often "random," and students are increasingly tuning out of the democratic process.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 50, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Lord, Joseph. Dawg-gone: Dennis Felton Leaving for Georgia
• Hardin, Adriane & Abbey Brown. Fire Alarms Annoy Pearce-Ford Tower Residents
• Lord, Joseph. Tuition Costs Increasing Across State
• Sebastian, Kandace. Cultural Activities Coming to Downing University Center
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Downtown Could Get Facelift
• Insurance Plan Needs Second Look
• Reuter, Michael. Editorial Cartoon re: Blind Insurance
• Casagrande, Michael. Haven Home for Hopeless Fanatics
• Ross, Lisa. Pearce-Ford Tower fire Alarms Helping Swimmers
• Sasseen, Jessica. Lines May be Obsolete in Bookstore
• Hellmueller, Anthony. Department to Hold Student-run Plays – Theatre & Dance
• Sparks, Zack. …