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Western Kentucky UniversityTopSCHOLAR®WKU Archives Records WKU Archives12-1981UA68/10 Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1WKU SociologyFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_recordsPart of the Higher Education Administration Commons, and the Sociology CommonsThis Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by anauthorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact connie.foster@wku.edu.Recommended CitationWKU Sociology, "UA68/10 Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1" (1981). WKU Archives Records. Paper 3563.http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/3563• DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY . WKU . NEWSLETTER Vol. 1, No. 1. December, 1981 The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work began the academic year with a new Head of the De -partment. Dr. Jerry D. Cardwell came t o Western from Longwood College where he had been the Head for the past three years. Prior to his Virginia position , Dr. Cardwe ll was a member of the facu lty at the University of North Carol ina, Greensboro, where he served as Director of the Graduate Program, and had served as Chairman of the De-partment of Sociology at Stetson University. Dr. cardwe ll has also held faculty appointments at Auburn University and Virginia Polytechnic Insti tute and State University. Program News The Sociology Graduate Faculty has approved a reorgan-ization and restructuring of the Graduate Program (M . A.) in sociology as recommended by the Graduate Program Re-view Commi ttee . t'ihile the entire revised program will become effective in the Fall Semester, 1982 , certain provisions of the program wil l begin in the Spring Semester , 1982. The revisions should provide for a substantial upgrading of the quality of graduate education at Western and for a more orderly and stab l e program through which graduate students can move with greater faci lity. More in-formation on the graduate program in sociology can be obtained by contacting the Director of Graduate Studies. The Sociology fac ulty acted to approve a ma jor reorganization and restructuring of the undergraduate sociology program. The new program represents a complete reworking of the undergraduate offer-ings with an eye to increased quality and recognition of recent changes in our discipline . A key feature of the new program is balance in area offe r ings and a curriculum that wi ll "rollover" every two academi c years. The new undergraduate program will become effective with the Fal l semester, 19 82, if it is approved by the various university committees . Students currently enrolled in the undergraduate program will have the option of remaining under the old program o r choosing the revised program. • -2-The Social Work facu lty has revised and restructured the socia l work curriculum. The revised curr icu lum represents an extensive re-wo rk ing o f the unde rgradua te social work curriculum for the purpose of increased quality and more intensive socia l work experiences for the undergraduate. The revisions will become effective with the Fal l semester , 1982, if it is a pproved by t he various university commi ttees. Facu l ty Activities Fuad Baa l i published , with J . Br ian Price , their artic l e entitled "Economic and Soci al In terpretation of History" in the Arab Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1 , No . 1 . With Ali Wardi, Dr . Baali pub li shed " Ibn Khaldun ' s Typology of Society in the Light of Modern Thought," i n Vo l . 9, No . 3, of the Journa l of Soci a l Sciences . Dr . Baali's new book e ntitled Ibn Khaldun and Islamic ThOU~ht -St!les : A Social Perspective ,~s published t is fa 1 by G. K. Hall and Co ., Pub l ishers. Louis M. Beck served as Chairman of t he Social Prob l ems Section at the Mid- Sou th Socio l ogical Society meetings in Oct ober . Dr . Beck was also elected Vice President of the Barren River Chapter of the Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency. Edward Bohlander addressed Psi Chi (Psychology Honorary) o n careers i n criminal jus tice . With John Faine, Dr . Bohlander prepared a book review fo r the journal Criminology. Also wi th Dr . Faine , Dr. Boh lander is participa ting in workshops on Crime a nd the Black Community sponsored by the Kentucky N.A . A.C.P . and the Kentucky Humanities Council. Dr . Bohlander is also consulting with the Louisvi lle Times journalistic research on sentencing a lterna ti ves. Jer ry Cardwell presented his pape r entitled "Some Perceived Methodo l ogical Deficiencies of "Symbolic Interactionism at the Macro-leve l" at the Mid-South Sociological Society meetings in Shrevepor t , La. Dr. CardHel1 also p r esen ted his pape r "The Proper Domain of Symbolic Interactionism" to t he a nnual meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Inte raction, in Toronto, Can ada (the paper was read by Dr . Levy) . Dr . Cardwe ll has a l so signed two pub li shing contracts , one with Allyn a nd Bacon for a manuscript in pro-gress entit l ed Socia l Psychology : Individuals ~ Person s , and one with Ge neral Learning Pub lishing Company to publish a completed monograph e n ti tled Macro- Symbol ic Interactionism , co-au thored with Dr. Glenn M. Vernon. Dr . Cardwell also served on a committee of the Gradua te College addressing the possi -bility of meeting with business and industrial leade r s • - 3-throughout Kentucky to appeal fo r funds and to inform the m of our gra duate p rograms . Dr . Cardwell served as a consultant to Radford University in Virginia o n an EEOC ma tter dea l i n g with employment policy and p r actice . The case was resolved out-at -court . Dr . Cardwell has agreed t o se r ve as a Reviewer for Sociology : Review of Books. H. Kirk Danserea u has been on sabbatica l l eave this semester . ~'lhile on sabbatical Dr. Dansereau trave l ed t o eight states and the District of Columbia conduc ting discussions with official s in the area of Vo ca t;onal-Technical Education a t the secondary level, collecting l egislation , state five year p l ans and othe r relevant documents , visit-ing two Va-Tech schoo l s for interviews and observation of classes and facilities . In washington , D.C. , information was obtained from t he office of Rep . Car l Pe rkins, the National Advisory Council for Vocation a l Education , and the Amer ican Vocationa l Associ ation (Ar l ington, VA . ) Dr . Dansereau served as a Disc ussant for the Industrial Sociology session of the Mid - South Sociologica l Society Annual Meetings in Shreveport , Oct . 29 - 30 . Thomas P. Dunn spoke to the Auburn Rotar y on "Television and Society. " Dr . Dunn se r ved as a resource pe r son fo r the Teacher In forma t ion Ex-change sponsore d by the ASA Projects on Teaching Underg r aduate Sociology . In addition, Dr . Dunn submi tted a proposal for inclusion in WKU ' s p ro-posa l t o the grants program of t he Counc il of Public Broad casting- -Annebe rg School of Communication . John Faine has been serving as a half - t ime consu l tant to faculty research proJects . Dr. Faine ac t e d as a r eferee , reviewi n g two articles fo r pub l ication . Dr . Faine has a l so been a co-author and co-participant in many of the projects cited i n conjunction with Dr . Bohlander . Warren Coun t y J ai ler . Ann Goetti ng participa t ed i n the Mellon Region al Faculty Development Program Wo rk shop t "The Russians --Li terature , Socie t y t and Goverrunent, " in June and July at Vanderbilt . Dr . Goetting published " The Gua t ema l a Prison System : An Application of Familism ," in the Prison Journal. Dr . Goetti ng p r esented her paper entitled "Conjuga l Associa tion i n Prisons : Issues and Perspectives " at the meeti n g of the American Society of Criminology, i n Washington, D. C . Dr . Goetting organized and participated in the panel , "Con-jugal Association i n Prison" at the annual mee t-ing of the Midwes t Associati on for La tin American ~ Studies at Ohio Un iversity i n October . She a lso se rves on the Citizens' Advisory Committee to the Jim Grimm delivered a paper entit led "A Model for Studying Union Decert-ification in the U. S . ," (co - a uthored by Stephen Lacy, a WKU Masters Cand-idate in Sociol ogy) at the Mid-South Sociological Society meetings in Shreveport in October . Dr . Grimm received a \vKU Faculty Research Grant to s tudy union decertification in the U. S . , and is c urrently conducting a nation - wide survey of U.S. Firms which h e l d decertification elections in 1 9 79 . • -4 -Kathy Kalab attended the Fall meeting of the Tennessee Consortium for Asian Studies (of which she serves as a member of the Board of Directors and of the Steering Committee) at the Unive rsity of Tennessee , Chatta-nooga in November. Dr. Kalab was selected by the Kentucky Council for Internationa l Educati o n as one of WKU's two participants in the "Gl oba l Issues" Conference and attended the first conference at Barren River State Park in November. Dr . Kalab also assisted with the visit of 36 Japanese educators to the City of Bowling Green. Joan Krenzin is serving as Chairperson of WKU ' s faculty senate and approximately 19 o ther committees including the State Congress of Senate Faculty Leaders. Dr. Krenzin has reviewed two chapters of an introductory text for McGraw- Hill. She has also composed material on "bleeding" at Western for a packet being prepared by Kiwanis Club. Brent Tuthill is a participant in the Quantification Subcommittee of the Academic Program Evaluation Pro ject which is charged with developing, administering, and evaluating student- based tests in the areas of mathe-matical , statistical and dimensional thinking to supplement the traditiona l qualitative-quantitative mode of testing. Paul R. Wozniak presented "World Population Trends and Problems " at the annuar-meeting of the Kentucky Council of Social Studies Teachers in Owensboro , Kentucky , in September. ~ Jack M. Schock gave a report of archaeological work con-t ":', r ducted dur~ng the year at the Annual Meeting of the Oh io 15. Valley Archaeological Conference held in Lexington in August . (~ Dr.Schock participated in the Archaeological Resource Pro-~~j tection Planning Process for the Green River Archaeological I f r, Management Area in September . He served as discussion leader ,~~-- on historic Indian and pioneer time periods for the Kentucky : ( Heritage Commission in October. Dr.Schock a l so submitted a report ~ entit l ed Archaeological Tes .ting of Six Sites at Barren River Lake ~ in Allen and Barren Counties , Kentucky, to the Louisville corps of Engineers . Wil l ~ Berry conducted workshops on Death and Dying and on Rea lity Orien t ation for the sta ff of a local nursing home . Mr. Berry developed and wrote a social s ervice delivery system for a hospital in South-Central Kentucky . He a lso conferred with regional leaders concerning the continuum in social work education and also Kent School ' s p l an to develop an advanced social work program in Western Kentucky. Duane Andrews co- presented a seminar on communi ty resources ~ and re ferra l s for the tra i ning prog ram for Hospice Vo lunteers, f served as a member of the tqsk force to form a vo luntary Action '(f ..!- ~ Center in Bowling Green, chaired the program committee of the U ~ Kentucky Chapter for the Prevention of Child Abuse which de - ~i . veloped the format for the Kentucky Conference on Children and JU~ Youth, and received a silver julep cup for her work as interim director of the Barren River Area Safe Space (the s p ouse abuse center) . • - 5-Janet Henry attended the Kentucky Association of Social Work Educators meeting in October. Ms . Henry chaired the Barren River Area Safe Space Board . She also presented a training component on community resources for the Hospice Training Committee in November . Ms . Henry also presented a n assertiveness training program to the Girl ' s Club. Tom Isherwood presented a workshop on crisis intervention to the staff of the Bar ren River Comprehensive Care Center and acted as Social Work Con-sultant for the staff of a local dialysis center . , Vernon Moore participated in the WKU Paralegal Workshop, "Client Communication," in October. Mr . Moore served as a consultant to the State Director of Parents Anonymous in grant proposal preparation. He a l so served on the Executive committee and the Conference Planning Committee of the Kentucky Association of Social Work Educators for the fall meeting . Mr. Moore p~esented the Pro-Choice issues in the WBGN Abortion Debate . Graduate Student News Congratulations are in order to Sharon Hogen and Scott Marx ! Ms. Hogan and Mr. Marx successfully completed their M. A. Exam-inations during the Fall semester. Both Sharon and Scot t were commended by Dr. Bohlander for their perfor mance on the examinations . Three new students will be entering our M. A. program as Graduate Assistants in the Spring Semester, ' 82 . They are Mr . Ray E . Ammons, Ms. Judith E . Hardinge, and Mr. Ear l Washington. Mr . Ammons received his B . A. (Sociology) from Western . Ms. Hardinge comes to us from Longwood College in Virginia where she receive L her B . S. (sociology). Mr. Washington is a graduntr ('"If the Pniversity of Louisville with his B.A . in sociology . Mr . (Tony) and Mrs . (Rebecca) Cecil are the proud parents of a new baby daughter , Sarah . Tony is a candidate for the M. A. in our graduate program. We wish the new parents and Sarah our very best . Chester Ballard , WKU M. A. , has joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Longwood College , Farmville , Virginia, as as Assistant Professor . It has been announced that the amount of stipends for graduate assistant-ships will be substantially increased beginning the Fall , 1982. • -6-Undergraduate Program A p l aque has been installed in the lobby of Grise Hall the soci o l o g y recipients of the N . O. Taff Scho l arship _ 1 965-66 Diana Lynn Nuckols 1 966-67 Wanda Jean Carpenter 1 966 - 67 Diana Lynn Nucko l s 1 96 7-68 John Louis Dec 1 970-71 Peggy Miller Burks 1970-71 Edward R. Hende r son 1 972 - 73 J udy Gaye Hayes 1 97 4-75 Linda R. Jones 1975-76 Linda Jones Collie 1976 - 77 Mar i l yn N . Anderson 1977-7 8 Jack Hews on Ray 1978 - 79 Caro l Lorene Cornett e 1979-80 valiee Ann Schofie l d 1980-81 Bryan Scott Fuller 1981-82 Victor Craig Miller commemor a t i ng Lis t ed are : The Department wil l be send i ng a l arge contingent to the upcoming Sou thern Meetings in Memphis this Apri l. See you the r e ! Editor , Vo l. 1., No .1. , Mr . Craig Taylor. 

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