UA3/8 Memo: Audit Report

Memo from WKU President Thomas Meredith to all faculty and staff regarding internal audit report, new Board of Regents and improved communication

UA3/8 Memo: Administrative Change

Memo from WKU President Thomas Meredith to all faculty and staff regarding administrative changes and future of WKU

Memo Re: September 8, 1994 Meeting

Memo from WKU President Thomas Meredith to Faculty Senate chair Marv Leavy attendance at a Faculty Senate meeting regarding Moving to a New Level

UA3/8/10 Inaugural Address

Speech delivered by President Thomas Meredith upon his installation as WKU president

Spectralradiometry and caribou range classification

The utility of Landsat in caribou range studies has been limited by problems of heterogeneity in cover type at the scale of pixies and by logistic barriers to ground truthing. Spectralradiometry provides an economical way of collecting ground truth data that are precisely comparable with Landsat data and which could provide a basis for hierarchic key classification rather than classification based on prinicipal components analysis. Spectral curves are presented for six common cover types and it is shown how the information could be used to develop classification criteria. Airborne data which could have provided a direct comparison with Landsat data proved to be too highly variable because of equipment constraints but there do not appear to be any significant barriers to developing the technique

Fragmentation and other institutional changes in large, forest ownerships, Humphreys County, Tennessee, from 1945 to 1975

The study dealt with institutional changes in large forest land tracts, 500 acres or larger, in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Register of Deeds records revealed changes in ownership, fragmentation, consolidation, and turnover over a 30-year period, 1945 to 1975. In 1945, the Tennessee Valley Authority obtained records by professional abstractors of 48 forest land parcels, 500 acres and larger. These records provided the benchmark data for this study. In 1945, 48 original parcels contained 73,880 total acres, of which 71,617 acres were in forest. This forest acreage represented about 30 percent of the forest land of the county. All parcels were privately owned with ownership classes as follows: 50 percent (24) was held by individual owners; about 2 percent (1) was a partnership; about 21 percent (10) was held in estates; about 19 percent (4) was owned by private forest industry; and 8 percent (9) was owned by corporations other than forestry. Tracing the individual 48 parcels revealed much fragmentation by 1975. Nineteen properties were fragmented into two or more smaller tracts. Five parcels had been fragmented so that each of their total woodland acreage was below 500 acres. Remaining properties had been reduced to 64,970 acres, of which 58,460 acres were forest land. Consolidation was minimal, including only three properties totaling 1,969 acres, of which 452 acres were forest land. Two of these properties subsequently fragmented during the 30-year period. By 1975, the original 48 parcels were expanded to 92 parcels of varying sizes. There were 143 sales or transfers to heirs over the 30-year period. The number of partnerships increased nine-fold over the 30-year period. Fifteen of the individually owned properties had sold timber to forest industry, as evidenced by recorded deeds of two years or longer. Four of these were for 99 years. Industrial forest holdings were relatively stable over the 30-year period. Fragmentation was found to be significantly associated with parcels containing less than 75 percent forest land and also by turnover as measured by the average number of sales weighted by years of tenure. That is to say, properties that sold more frequently tended to be more often broken into smaller tracts when adjusted to an average annual sales basis. As expected, the largest parcel remaining of the fragmented parcels had a higher assessed value per acre in 1975 than properties which did not fragment. The average size of large forest tracts in Humphreys County is declining, which may tend to constrain deliberate forest practices due to diseconomies of size; and creates uncertainty regarding timber availability, especially in the long-run

Mental Health And The Role Of The States

Researchers from the State Health Care Spending Project -- a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- sought to better understand the country's mental health challenges and, in particular, the states' role in addressing them. The project found that:In 2013, approximately 44 million adults -- 18.5 percent of the population 18 and older -- were classified as having a mental illness. Of these, 10 million had a serious mental illness. The rate of serious mental illness varied from state to state.In 2009, the most recent year for which national mental health data are available, $147 billion was spent on mental health treatment in the United States. A majority of the spending, 60 percent, came from public sources such as Medicaid, state and local governments, Medicare, and federal grants. Private sources, including health insurance and individual out-of-pocket spending, made up the difference.Funding from states and localities totaled$22 billion (15 percent) in 2009. This total does not include state and local Medicaid expenditures. Counting those contributions brings total state and local spending up to $35.5 billion (24 percent).This report is intended to help federal, state, and local policymakers working to address the country's mental health challenges to better understand their prevalence, treatment, and funding trends

Alien Registration- Meredith, Enid U. (Caribou, Aroostook County)

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Employment and Food During Coronavirus

Key Findings 1. 45% of respondents with jobs experienced some type of job disruption or loss. 19.7% had a reduction in hours or income, 9.3% had been furloughed, and 15.5% had lost their job since the coronavirus outbreak. 2. 38.5% of respondents experiencing job loss or disruption since the outbreak were classified as food insecure. 3. Respondents experiencing job disruption or loss were significantly more likely to be already implementing food purchasing or eating changes and concerned about food access compared to those who did not experience a change in employment. 4. Respondents with job disruption or loss were significantly more likely to need higher amounts of money per week to help meet their basic needs if they could no longer afford food ($100 with a reduction in hours/income,$107 furloughed, $158 with job loss, compared to$82 with no job impact)

Food Access and Security During Coronavirus: A Vermont Study

Key Findings 1. Respondents reported a 33% increase in food insecurity since the coronavirus outbreak began in Vermont (from 18% to 24%). 2. 45% of respondents with jobs experienced a job disruption or loss. 3. Respondents said the most helpful actions for meeting their food needs would be increased trust in the safety of going to stores and more food in stores. 4. Respondents worried most about food becoming unaffordable and running out of food if they were unable to go out. 5. Vermonters are using a variety of strategies to adapt: a majority of respondents are at least somewhat likely to buy foods that don\u27t go bad quickly (90%); buy different, cheaper foods (69%); and stretch the food they have by eating less (52%)