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

Description: 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 freshma… more
Date: August 1989
Creator: Whitt, Jerry W.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of the Use of Computer-Assisted-Instruction for Older Learners in a Continuing Education Program

Description: The purpose of this study was to assess the achievement of older learners when using computer-assisted-instruction tutorials with no time limits and to compare this achievement with that of other older students who were taught by the conventional lecture method of instruction. The effects of prior formal education, physical limitations, socioeconomic status, and sex were also identified. Students in the age categories fifty-five to sixty-seven and sixty-eight and over were placed at random in e… more
Date: August 1989
Creator: Richardson, Susan Morris
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Davis]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth man, Bill Davis, being arrested after escaping from Wilbarger County Sheriff's Department's custody the previous year.
Date: January 24, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mung beans]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1990
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: China Palace]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1990
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Beef Day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the town of Vernon serving steak to the public.
Date: April 17, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: White]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a barbecue in Vernon, Texas. Ranchers, farmers, and livestock feeders held the barbecue to show their appreciation to residents who continued to buy meat inspire of a boycott.
Date: April 20, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hightower]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of State Senator announcing that he will seek U.S. congressional seat.
Date: December 11, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Injunction hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. about hearing in Vernon on an injunction involving a multi million dollar cotton deal.
Date: July 25, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vernon bank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about state and federal examiners who are probing the closing of the first state bank in Vernon which may have been the initial casualty in a bogus cotton deal affecting 26 creditors and eleven banks in four states.
Date: July 24, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bank of vernon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about state and federal examiners who believe that they may be on the trail of a multi state scheme to bilk banks out of more than 4 million dollars.
Date: July 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Woman Shot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Vernon officers who are investigating a mysterious shooting in the North Texas city.
Date: September 4, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Duncanville]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Duncanville city councilmen who has been cleared of theft charges after Criminal District Judge instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because of insufficient evidence.
Date: January 23, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX]

Description: Photograph of Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX. A green lawn fills the photo's foreground, planted with bushes that contain pink flowers. Beyond the grass is a gravel area with a bench facing a short water fountain, wooden walls containing the fallen water while sitting on a brick base. Tall unlit lamps with teardrop-shaped tops sit in the grass and behind the fountain. In the area beyond the fountain is a wall of green foliage tall enough to almost entirely block the courthouse from v… more
Date: February 14, 1972
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Faller]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: May 2, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Killer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Reese Air Force Base cadet, Walter F. Whitaker Jr., accused of murdering a Lubbock girl, Joyce Fern White.
Date: June 23, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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