Leadership of American Indian Presidents of Accredited Tribally Chartered Community Colleges

This study examined the leadership behaviors of Native American presidents of accredited tribally chartered and controlled community colleges. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire-Form XII was used to obtain the self-perceptions of seven Native American presidents about their leadership behavior. In addition, the perceptions of three faculty members, three administrative staff members, and two board members concerning the leadership behaviors of their president at each of the seven colleges were obtained through the LBDQ-12. Each president also was requested to complete a questionnaire designed for this study to collect biographical data and data about their goals, challenges, and accomplishments. The findings and conclusions were the following: The presidents and the board members perceived the presidents to be high in the leadership behaviors of Tolerance of Freedom, Consideration, Initiation of Structure, and Persuasiveness. These groups perceived the presidents to be low in the leadership behaviors of Representation, Demand Reconciliation, Predictive Accuracy, and Integration. The faculty and the administrative staff perceived the presidents to be high in Tolerance of Freedom, Persuasiveness, Initiation of Structure, and Superior Orientation. They perceived the presidents to be low in Integration, Predictive Accuracy, Demand Reconciliation, and Representation. Tribal college governing boards tend to hire individuals similar to themselves as presidents. A descriptive leadership profile of a tribal college president is that he is male, is between 39 and 42 years of age, has served in his position for nearly six years, was reared on the reservation, descended from a family involved in tribal leadership, holds a master\u27s degree, and has parents with at least two years of high school education. Tribal college presidents spend a majority of their time coping with a lack of financial resources. Therefore, the roles and the positions of the presidents are tenuous. Tribal college presidents believe their institutions exist to serve the students and community in addition to preserving the tribal culture through the college curriculum. The instilling of tribal culture in the Native American colleges is essential but difficult

Alien Registration- Hartley, Verna M. (Millinocket, Penobscot County)

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A test of physical fitness and a plan for its application for the improvement of teaching

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The Declining Rural School Population in Brookings County

Today, one of the problems of great importance confronting the people of this county as well as other counties in South Dakota is that of a rapidly declining school population with a corresponding decrease in rural school enrollments. These trends are in evidence not only in South Dakota, but in many rural parts of the United States as well

Service-learning: Comparison of Hospitality Programs in Two- and Four-Year Institutions

Partnerships between community and academic institutions are the cornerstones of academic service-learning. While the term academic service-learning emerged in the 90\u27s, civic or citizenship education has been part of academic curriculums for centuries. Hospitality management programs at two-(n=63) and four-year (n=79) institutions were surveyed for this study using a 21 question faxed survey and two-year (52%) and four-year (48%) institutions responded. Results indicated that academic service-learning was not as prevalent in hospitality management programs of four-year institutions as anticipated, while two-year (67%) institutions had higher participation. Overall results showed that hospitality program directors did not identify what influences inclusion/exclusion. The perceived difference between institutions in the importance to include academic service-learning in the hospitality management curriculum was not clearly identified. The importance of inclusion in hospitality curriculum was inconclusive

Alien Registration- Wilder, Verna M. (Wade, Aroostook County)

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Magneto-optical characterization of MnxGe1-x alloys obtained by ion implantation

Magneto-optical Kerr effect hysteresis loops at various wavelengths in the visible/near-infrared range have been used to characterize the magnetic properties of alloys obtained by implanting Mn ions at fixed energy in a Ge matrix. The details of the hysteresis loops reveal the presence of multiple magnetic contributions. They may be attributed to the inhomogeneous distribution of the magnetic atoms and, in particular, to the known coexistence of diluted Mn in the Ge matrix and metallic Mn-rich nanoparticles embedded in it [Phys. Rev. B 73, 195207(2006)].Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the International Conference on Magnetism. Kyoto, August 20-25 200