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Academic Achievement: Examining the Impact of Community Type at a Small Liberal Arts College in Texas (open access)

Academic Achievement: Examining the Impact of Community Type at a Small Liberal Arts College in Texas

Hierarchical regression was used to determine if high school community type is an effective predictor of academic success when controlling for demographics, prior academic achievement, socioeconomic status, and current commitment or work habits for students entering Austin College in 1992,1993, and 1994 . Findings revealed that there is a relationship between attending high school in community types of rural and independent town controlling for the effects of SAT scores, high school rank, sex, and late application deposit on first semester grade point average.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Rutherford, Janis Pruitt
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0165]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "the huge new Denison Dam here will control the flow of the Washita River and the Red River to prevent future flood damage."
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Study of College Selection Criteria as Applied to Three Small Rural Community Colleges in North Texas (open access)

A Study of College Selection Criteria as Applied to Three Small Rural Community Colleges in North Texas

The purposes of this study were to identify criteria which influence students' decisions to attend specific colleges and to determine whether different groups of students use similar criteria. The following groups were compared: white students and minority students, males and females, older students and younger students, university-bound students and vocational students, and full-time students and part-time students. The sample used for this study was taken from the students enrolled in freshman English classes at Vernon Regional Junior College, Clarendon College, and Grayson County College. Approximately 100 students at each college were selected to participate in the study. Each student in the study received instruction, provided demographic information, and completed a two-part survey. The survey asked respondents to evaluate each of twenty items on a Likert-type scale. The data provided were compiled and organized into groups by a data base computer program. Data obtained from specific groups of respondents were compared, first through an examination of means, then through a chi-square test of independence. It was determined that the most important college selection criteria to these respondents were the cost of attendance, the availability of specific programs, the size of the college, the size of individual classes, the location of the …
Date: August 1989
Creator: Whitt, Jerry W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Analysis of the Secondary Education Program at Whitewright, Texas (open access)

A Critical Analysis of the Secondary Education Program at Whitewright, Texas

This thesis examines efficiency levels of the secondary school in Whitewright, Texas in order to determine the need for change in curriculum or focus.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Jernigan, James C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Collinsville High School, Collinsville, Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of the Collinsville High School, Collinsville, Texas

An evaluation of Collinsville High School, Collinsville, Texas, examining the philosophy of education and rating the school according to published standards.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Pearce, Milton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0161]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Spectators looking at the giant electric generator in use at the new Denison Dam here."
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0177]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nope, just a sign in a Denison, Texas, park."
Date: August 17, 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0178]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Teresa Hopkins, cotton mill secretary, displays results of new paper process employed by firm."
Date: August 11, 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Viet vet stabbings] (open access)

[News Script: Viet vet stabbings]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a young Vietnam veteran that stabbed two passengers aboard a bus route to Arkansas and fled the scene and later caught by the police.
Date: August 2, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Deaths] (open access)

[News Script: Deaths]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 25, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Escape attempt trial] (open access)

[News Script: Escape attempt trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a denial to move a trial for an attempted escape to a new location.
Date: August 14, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Highland Park school transfer] (open access)

[News Script: Highland Park school transfer]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the motions concerning Highland Park school transfer cases.
Date: August 31, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Veterans jailed] (open access)

[News Script: Veterans jailed]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 3, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Big Wreck] (open access)

[News Script: Big Wreck]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 4, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Insurance suit] (open access)

[News Script: Insurance suit]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 9, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Grayson County property] (open access)

[News Script: Grayson County property]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a group of attorneys at Serman Real Estate repoorting that an informal agreement being reached for a court order to settle a suit that seek and reevaluation of of all property in Grayson County.
Date: August 2, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0179]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paper is turned into yarn here as new Denison cotton mill machine turns out the spools."
Date: August 12, 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0792]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Familiar Sight -- This view of Texas from the Oklahoma side of Red River is familiar to travelers from all parts of the United States and areas of Canada."
Date: August 28, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0350.0249]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Lake Texoma was formed by the Denison dam the channel of the Washita river was moved to save the the Cumberland oil field."
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Broun, Robin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0349.0508]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 19, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Clip: Penton Suspect] captions transcript

[News Clip: Penton Suspect]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: August 21, 1988
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved self-setting trap that can capture and kill animals while preventing them from reaching the bait.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Sheridan, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ballast-Scraper. (open access)

Ballast-Scraper.

Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: McElvaney, Charles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for "an improved cotton-compress adapted to be used in connection with a cotton-baling press for increasing the density and reducing the size of the bales formed in the press."
Date: August 26, 1902
Creator: Denton, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History