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The Community Junior College: A Study of the Dallas County Junior College (open access)

The Community Junior College: A Study of the Dallas County Junior College

"The thesis is concerned with the intricacies and problems of community leadership in a metropolitan environment, and the work with a state governing agency that oversees all work done within its jurisdiction...The thesis consists of the history and function of the junior college movement in the United States, the history of Dallas County Junior College from the time it was just an idea up to March 15, 1966, and brief statement of the future course of this vast undertaking." -- leaf 1
Date: August 1966
Creator: Altick, Frank J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Texas State Government (open access)

Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Texas State Government

Audio-visual aids can help to cause the student to realize that "government" is an animate, ever-changing thing that affects him in many ways. The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways in which government courses may be given life.
Date: 1948
Creator: Baker, Riley Ellis
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Trend Away from the Traditional Democratic Party in Texas Presidential Elections, 1932-1948 (open access)

An Analysis of the Trend Away from the Traditional Democratic Party in Texas Presidential Elections, 1932-1948

The purpose of this paper will be to look into the election returns to find some of the factors which have caused the trend of voters shifting away from the Democratic party towards the Republican party in presidential elections.
Date: 1951
Creator: Barnebey, Malcolm Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the House Un-American Activities Committee with Conclusions and Recommendations as to its Future Value (open access)

An Evaluation of the House Un-American Activities Committee with Conclusions and Recommendations as to its Future Value

The purpose of this study is a critical examination of this Committee with emphasis on its methods, procedure, and worth.
Date: 1948
Creator: Boyd, Will C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 13th Congressional District in Transition: a Preliminary Analysis of Representation (open access)

The 13th Congressional District in Transition: a Preliminary Analysis of Representation

The relationship between the representative and the reapportioned district is the central feature of the present study as it attempts to assess selected facets of the 13th Congressional District in transition.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Bryant, Stephen N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federalism's Expanding Dimensions: a Case Study of Decision-Making of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport (open access)

Federalism's Expanding Dimensions: a Case Study of Decision-Making of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport

"This paper analyzes the decision making processes in the federal system through a case study, that of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport controversy, and reveals the role of the many governments and interest groups involved. ...In this study the background of conflict is reviewed, after which the CAB [Civil Aeronautics Board] decision, accomplishments and problems are discussed. The presentation will reflect the cooperative role of all governments in the federal system, plus pressure groups that contribute to decision-making in the federal system."-- leaves 2,13.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Burlage, George Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature (open access)

Budgetary Decision-Making in the Texas Legislature

The government of any state has the responsibility of providing for the health, safety, welfare, education, and protection of its citizens. To accomplish these goals, states have created elaborate and complex administrative organizations staffed by thousands of bureaucrats. The increased demands of the citizens of each state upon their state governments for better education, highways, and increased protection are reflected both in the expansion of the agencies created to provide these services and, in turn, in requests for funds in ever increasing amounts to expand the scope of the services. The ability of a state to fund each agency's request is definitely limited; no state is sufficiently wealthy to grant every request. Rather, a state must make some judgment in the distribution of its limited resources (money) among competing and demanding sources. This requires planning and is called budgeting, which one writer has defined as "one of the major processes by which the use of public resources is planned and controlled."
Date: June 1970
Creator: Butler, Daron K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equal Representation and State Legislative Apportionment: a Study of the Political Impact of the Legislative Reapportionment Decisions (open access)

Equal Representation and State Legislative Apportionment: a Study of the Political Impact of the Legislative Reapportionment Decisions

This study is concerned with the political impact of the Supreme Court's decisions concerning state legislative apportionment. First, an attempt is made to describe the political environment in which they were made, with special reference to the existing bases of representation in the states and the political reaction to the decisions. Secondly, the study traces the major issues relating to judicial enforcement of the apportionment standards enunciated by the Supreme Court and the modification and development of those standards that followed the initial decisions. Finally, the extent to which reapportionment has been successfully enforced by the courts may suggest some tentative conclusions about the viability and utility of the equal population doctrine as a constitutional standard, as well as some of the possible political consequences of enforcement of that standard.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Clark, Robert B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Jury Service (open access)

The Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Jury Service

It is the purpose of this paper to present the historical record of Negro service on grand and petit juries in the United States, as that record is revealed by decisions of both state and federal courts; particularly the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. It is the desire of this treatise that such record shall be presented fairly. Finally, it is the aim of this document to present this historical record of cases in such a manner as to allow the prediction of certain potential developments visible in the course of justice. This then is a presentation of the record of the systematic exclusion of the Negro race in the matter of service on grand and petit juries in the United States, and with especial attention to the State of Texas.
Date: 1951
Creator: Cogdill, John L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of Texas' 1964 National Political Convention Delegations (open access)

Characteristics of Texas' 1964 National Political Convention Delegations

"It is the purpose of this study is to examine these characteristics of the delegates from Texas to the 1964 Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions, as well as to compare and contrast their characteristics. It is a basic assumption of this study that the characteristics of national convention delegates are important in the determination of the character of the convention as an institution."-- leaf 2.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Cole, Richard L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Tactics of the Arkansas Gubernatorial Elections as Revealed by the 1948, 1950 and 1952 Campaigns (open access)

Campaign Tactics of the Arkansas Gubernatorial Elections as Revealed by the 1948, 1950 and 1952 Campaigns

This thesis is a study of the campaign tactics of the Arkansas gubernatorial elections as revealed by the 1948, 1950 and 1952 campaigns.
Date: February 1953
Creator: Crane, Billy G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning (open access)

A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning

This thesis discusses the similarities and differences between position classifications in public service and a state institution of higher learning.
Date: 1946
Creator: Crow, Herman L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Movement for Trinity River Development (open access)

The Movement for Trinity River Development

This thesis analyzes the movement for Trinity River improvement and describes the methods used to promote the project.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Davis, Edwin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dallas Transit Company: Transition from Private to Public Ownership (open access)

The Dallas Transit Company: Transition from Private to Public Ownership

Dallas, Texas, faces transportation problems common to all metropolitan areas. This thesis will examine the effort of the City of Dallas to find a solution to a particular transportation problem, that of public transit. Events leading to the city's purchase of a privately owned transit company and problems encountered during the year after the purchase will be primarily considered in this thesis. The basic methodology consisted of interviews with persons directly connected with the transit operation, including city administrators, City Council members, and transit board members. A newspaper reporter, closely associated with the problem from beginning to end, gave an objective, eye-witness account of the situation. Additionally, newspaper accounts of the transition from private to public transit ownership provided a useful chronology, and letters and public documents supplied other information. City leaders realized that a good transit system was a vital part of a balanced Metropolitan program of transportation. Because the privately owned transit company was not providing adequate bus service, the city found it desirable to assume public ownership of the transit operation through purchase of the Dallas Transit Company in January, 1964.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Duke, Jimmy D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Party Organization in Texas: An Analysis of the Membership and Staff of the State Executive Committees (open access)

State Party Organization in Texas: An Analysis of the Membership and Staff of the State Executive Committees

The purpose of this study is to analyze the state executive committees of the two major political parties in Texas and to present facts regarding the membership of the committees (the policy-makers) and the professional staff of the state party organization (the administrators of party policy).
Date: January 1970
Creator: Dunn, Charles DeWitt
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine whether students in Texas high schools are receiving adequate citizenship education, to see what factors are responsible for the present situation, and finally to search for possible improvements in civic education and possible solutions for specific problems.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Gale, Patricia Harberson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska) (open access)

Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska)

This thesis covers the history of education in Alaska, the federal school system, the territorial school system, the University of Alaska, Alaska's teachers, and the future of Alaskan education.
Date: 1942
Creator: Garner, Martha Marie Gough
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Local Administration of the War on Poverty with the Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor; its Problems and Prospects: Community Action Program (open access)

The Local Administration of the War on Poverty with the Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor; its Problems and Prospects: Community Action Program

The present study examines the background of the Economic Opportunity Act in a local administrative structure. An extensive investigation is made of the Community Action Program of Laredo, Texas. The Community Action Program is a new approach which is still in the formative period and this receptive to constructive suggestions for change. Perhaps, it is hoped, this study will point the direction for such change, to the benefit of the long-run effectiveness of the poverty program as well as healthier interlocal relations.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Garza, Lorenzo
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Governor Price Daniel as a Legislative Leader (open access)

The Role of Governor Price Daniel as a Legislative Leader

List of tables -- Chapter I. Price Daniel: a biographical sketch -- Chapter II. Governor Daniel and the fifty-fifth Texas legislature -- Chapter III. Governor Daniel and the fifty-sixth Texas legislature -- Chapter IV. Governor Daniel and the fifty-seventh Texas legislature -- Chapter V. Techniques used by Governor Price Daniel in Exercising legislative leadership-- Bibliography.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Green, James Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries (open access)

The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries

The focus of this work lies in an examination of the effect of technological sophistication upon, and the reactions to technological sophistication by, the United States in its active participation in the international arena. Specifically, this work is to be an examination of one aspect of twentieth century technology, that of the transfer of technology, within the foreign policy considerations of the United States. This work will be further limited to an examination of American foreign policy of technology transfer to the underdeveloped countries of the world.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Griffitts, Garland W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Defense Training Programs of the Federal Security Agency in Texas (open access)

National Defense Training Programs of the Federal Security Agency in Texas

It is the purpose of this thesis to give the reader a picture of the labor shortage hampering the Defense Production Program, to describe the structure and development of the corporate plan for the National Defense Training Programs conducted by the Federal Security Agency for Texas, to evaluate the effectiveness of this plan, and, in conclusion, to point out such developments as might possibly effect our general educational systems.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hitt, Harold H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Senior High School Government Courses in the Public Schools of Texas (open access)

An Analysis of Senior High School Government Courses in the Public Schools of Texas

To provide a better understanding of civil government as taught in the public senior high schools of Texas, this study investigates the scope of subject matter now included in the course, the method of presentation of the students, and suggests possible improvement toward solution.
Date: June 1962
Creator: Holman, Dorothy Jane Riggs
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legal Principles and Practices in the Consolidation of School Districts in Texas (open access)

Legal Principles and Practices in the Consolidation of School Districts in Texas

The writer in this study seeks to do two things: (1) to make clear the fundamental principles underlying the relation of the state and the local school officials to the school district in regard to school district consolidation, and (2) to reduce to a systematic organization the principles derived from cases which are applicable to this problem of consolidation of school districts.
Date: 1950
Creator: Howell, Hewell Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Reformatory System with Emphasis on the Gatesville School for Boys (open access)

The Texas Reformatory System with Emphasis on the Gatesville School for Boys

At least one state function is handled differently in most all of the forty-eight sovereign states. This function is that of juvenile control, or the care of juvenile delinquents. The states vary a great deal in their methods of combating juvenile delinquency and in the operation of their reformatories, and most of these systems are in crying need of reform. Many are the forgotten chore of state administrators, and others are the thorn in the side of the state's political administration. The latter is the case in the state of Texas.
Date: January 1949
Creator: Johnson, Samuel Maurice
System: The UNT Digital Library