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
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
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
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
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
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
The City of Denton Computer Installation: A Study of Conversion in a Medium-Sized Municipality (open access)

The City of Denton Computer Installation: A Study of Conversion in a Medium-Sized Municipality

It will be the purpose of this thesis to describe and analyze the events and factors which shaped installation of the first electronic data processing system acquired by the City of Denton, Texas--a "medium-sized" municpal organization operating under the council-manager plan. Because the environment may have some degree of effect upon such an effort within the public sector, a certain amount of space will be given over to description of the community as a geographic location, as an aggregation of people engaged in varied activities, and, by implication, as a background for the operation of a municipal government.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Joyce, John W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Study: A Case Study in Intergovernmental Relations (open access)

The Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Study: A Case Study in Intergovernmental Relations

This thesis studies and explores the history of the highway system in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Various laws enacted to establish an effective transportation system are discussed including the different government agencies affected and their relations.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Kadri, Shoukat A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas (open access)

Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas

This study is devoted to a detailed survey of the claims administrative machinery of the State of Texas workman's compensation program.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Kinnaird, Donald Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Trends in the Delegation of School Powers in Texas (open access)

Legislative Trends in the Delegation of School Powers in Texas

The delegation of powers by the Legislature in carrying out school laws has always been a function of that body. In 1929 Justice Walker, in the case of Richardson v. Liberty Independent School District, stated that all powers possessed by school districts have been delegated by the Legislature. The same is true in respect to the powers possessed by the State Board of Education and the county boards of education. All these divisions have been created by law and all their powers delegated by the Legislature.By this study the writer will try to show what trend the Legislature has taken in the delegation of powers concerning,schools. In this study the solution of the following questions will be sought: 1. Is there a tendency toward more delegation of power to the state level of administration? 2. Is there a tendency in the Legislature to give more power to county and local units in the school system? 3. Is the Legislature inclining toward exercising more power on its own initiative? By the study of laws passed by the Legislature delegating powers and retaining powers, these problems can be answered and a definite trend shown.
Date: August 1951
Creator: Light, Robert W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Improvement and Code Enforcement in Fort Worth, Texas, 1961-1966 (open access)

Community Improvement and Code Enforcement in Fort Worth, Texas, 1961-1966

"The purpose of this study is to outline and analyze the efforts of the City of Fort Worth in the area of community improvement through code enforcement in the years 1961-1965. It is hoped that this study will enable those in the field of municipal government or other related fields to gain a better understanding of the need for community improvement through code enforcement and a better knowledge of methods to implement such a program."--leaf 1.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Liverman, Ralph L.
System: The UNT Digital Library