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Title: A Comparative Study of Retardation in the Negro and White Elementary Schools of Columbia County, Florida 1947-48, 1951-52.
Creator: Wilber Benson Lawson
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to compare the degree of retardation in Negro and white elementary schools of Columbia County, Florida from 1947-48 and 1951-52.
Date Issued: 1952-08
Identifier: AM00000028, famu:50836
Format: E-book

Title: A Study of the Employment Patterns of Negroes in Selected Occupations in Dade County, Florida.
Creator: James Learon Cherry
Abstract/Description: This study is devoted to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data necessary to determine the employment patterns of Negros in Dade County, Florida, during 1955.
Date Issued: 1956-08
Identifier: AM00000027, famu:49678
Format: E-book

Title: A Survey of the Standardized Testing Programs in Negro Schools of Florida and Their Implications for Guidance.
Creator: Robert Edwin Allen, Sr.
Abstract/Description: The problem of the study is (1) to determine to what extent standardize tests are used in Negro schools in Florida. (2) To determine What part these tests play in the guidance program in these schools. (3) To determine what part tests play in curriculum construction and provisions in these schools. (4) To determine what time of year that tests are given, and, (5) To determine the competency of personnel administering the testing program.
Date Issued: 1953-07
Identifier: AM00000032, famu:50814
Format: E-book

Title: Analysis and comparison of current project delivery systems where the architect has a role as a team member and how the team can be utilized by the State University System of Florida in achieving its architectural and construction goals.
Creator: Donald M. Williams
Abstract/Description: 1. Abstract The process of delivering architecture has taken on many new faces-faces which now include the contractor, architect and owner as integral participants in the overall delivery of a project. With these new changing faces have come new roles and responsibilities for each of the major players to include the addition of other players. These changes have caused the birth of construction managers and engineers who play integral roles in the delivery of the project. With the addition of...
Show more1. Abstract The process of delivering architecture has taken on many new faces-faces which now include the contractor, architect and owner as integral participants in the overall delivery of a project. With these new changing faces have come new roles and responsibilities for each of the major players to include the addition of other players. These changes have caused the birth of construction managers and engineers who play integral roles in the delivery of the project. With the addition of these players come new delivery methods that try to build on the traditional design- bid—construct method. These new methods of Construction Management (CM) and Design Build (DB), are slowly becoming the choice methods of major sponsors both private and public. Because these methods offer the client a faster delivery time and more control of cost than the traditional delivery method, owners are rushing to make use of the beneﬁts of these methods. Therefore, the owner must make choices about how to rate these methods and select one which will ﬁt their needs. The State University System (SUS) of Florida is an owner large enough to use all three of these methods. It makes choices based on project criteria, rules, regulations, politics, economics, time, efﬁciency and laws about which method it will and can use. This thesis will investigate the SUS’s criteria used for the selection of one of these delivery methods. Then it will compare how these and other potential alternative methods could be used by the SUS. The investigation will yield some insight into how these systems (Design-Bid, DB and CM) relate to each other in similar building types and the similar types of organizations which are needed to back these systems. It is my belief that these project delivery systems perform very differently under very similar conditions. i also believe that these delivery systems do not perform to their full potential if they are ill matched to the project scope and needs. This thesis will then make an assessment on whether the
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Date Issued: 1999-02-25
Identifier: AM00000313_00001, famu:22331
Format: E-book

Title: Architectural program for juvenile intake screening facilities and admission/release area of juvenile detetion centers in the state of Florida.
Creator: Jutta Court
Abstract/Description: Juvenile intake screening facilities and juvenile detention centers assess and detain youth who have committed a delinquent or criminal act. The performance goals for these facilities are SECURITY, OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, and STAFF AND YOUTH COMFORT. These goals complement each other, however, usually due to limited budgets, issues of comfort are not always implemented. This report examines comfort issues as related to juvenile intake screening facilities and admission/release area of...
Show moreJuvenile intake screening facilities and juvenile detention centers assess and detain youth who have committed a delinquent or criminal act. The performance goals for these facilities are SECURITY, OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, and STAFF AND YOUTH COMFORT. These goals complement each other, however, usually due to limited budgets, issues of comfort are not always implemented. This report examines comfort issues as related to juvenile intake screening facilities and admission/release area of juvenile detention centers. The psychological goals which address comfort issues in intake screening facilities and juvenile detention centers are: REDUCE TENSION, REDUCE ANXIETY, provide a NON-THREATENING ATMOSPHERE, REDUCE CHANCES OF CONFLICT, reduce or increase the PERCEPTION OF TIME, reduce or increase the PERCEPTION OF SPACE, MAINTAIN STAFF CONTROL, and increase COMMUNICATION AMONG STAFF. The comfort issues examined in this report are related to: PROXEMICS, FURNITURE, NATURAL LIGHT, PRIVACY, and CHOICE. The results of this report indicate that architectural elements relating to staff and youth comfort be incorporated in intake screening facilities and juvenile detention centers. The benefits of incorporating comfort issues can be applied to the remaining areas of juvenile detention centers, and to other residential juvenile delinquent program facilities.
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Date Issued: 1993-04
Identifier: AM00000298_00001, famu:56479
Format: E-book

Title: Career paths of chief female African American administrators in Florida community colleges.
Creator: Thelecia Yvette Wilson
Abstract/Description: African American women are vastly underrepresented in higher education administration. With the paucity of literature available, this study serves to increase the understanding and experiences of these female leaders in Florida Community Colleges and to disclose perceived barriers that impede their mobility and representation as chief administrative officers. The community college continues to be the most important higher education innovation of the 20”‘ century (Witt, Wattenbarger,...
Show moreAfrican American women are vastly underrepresented in higher education administration. With the paucity of literature available, this study serves to increase the understanding and experiences of these female leaders in Florida Community Colleges and to disclose perceived barriers that impede their mobility and representation as chief administrative officers. The community college continues to be the most important higher education innovation of the 20”‘ century (Witt, Wattenbarger, Gollattscheck, & Suppiger, 1994). In the state of Florida, there are 28 community colleges. Of those 28, there are a total of thirty- two chief administrators in 12 of those community colleges, and five African American women currently serve as presidents in 3 of those community colleges. Despite these efforts, African American women are underrepresented in positions as chief administrators in Florida community colleges. In Florida’s 28 community colleges, there are only 32 African American chief administrators—of which 5 serve as president. For the purpose of this study, 21 of the 32 administrators identified met the profile for this study. Administrators serving in their administrative positions at least (3) years or longer were asked to participate. Vaughan’s research on community college leaders states that in most cases it takes more than 5-7 years to establish oneself as a leader. The absence of greater numbers of African American women administrators in the community 16 college suggests the “new generation” of leaders is obtaining a variety of leadership opportunities and staying in them for a shorter time span (Amey, 2002). Moore (2000) stated, “The limited number of African American women makes it difficult for aspiring women leaders to find African American women role models who have been successful in cracking the glass ceiling” (p.1). This term refers to an invisible barrier toward advancement in executive ranks. The glass ceiling is identified primarily as a woman’s issue—— an issue impacting female administrators and those striving for this role in the college community. Unless gains are made in equitable leadership positions for African American women in the community college, the serious consequences of inequity, racism, and sexism will continue to prevail. Figure 4 show that more than 64 percent of college presidents were White men in 2000, signifying virtually no progress in the representation of African American women administrators as CEOs.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: AM00000301_00001, famu:50046
Format: E-book

Title: Changing times: How Florida's Whig newspapers reported on slavery and the 1850 Compromise, 1848-1852.
Creator: Sherrie L. Farabee
Abstract/Description: This study is a content analysis that examines how issues and events impacted news coverage in three Whig newspapers: the Florida Whig, the A Florida Sentinel and the Florida Republican. All were printed in Florida between 1848 and 1852, a time when the Whig Party led state and national government. Content analysis was chosen to track any changes in article length, article frequency, news hole, and topic prominence of articles about slavery and the 1850 Compromise. This study shows that the...
Show moreThis study is a content analysis that examines how issues and events impacted news coverage in three Whig newspapers: the Florida Whig, the A Florida Sentinel and the Florida Republican. All were printed in Florida between 1848 and 1852, a time when the Whig Party led state and national government. Content analysis was chosen to track any changes in article length, article frequency, news hole, and topic prominence of articles about slavery and the 1850 Compromise. This study shows that the length and frequency of articles in the three Florida Whig newspapers increased or decreased with ﬂuctuations of Whig Party emphasis on slavery and the 1850 Compromise. it also shows slavery and the 1850 Compromise were seldom the primary topics of any article. Normally the topics would be coupled with others: state's rights, territorial annexation, and economics. The study suggests that emphasis was heightened, not only by the Whig drive to persuade Floridians to their political side, but by speciﬁc events such as presidential elections and the d
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: AM00000297_00001, famu:56505
Format: E-book

Title: Creating a meaningful existence : The origins of black female heathcare professionals in Florida.
Creator: Esther Spencer
Abstract/Description: Black women have contributed greatly to the healthcare needs of the United States. Women have acted in the capacity of nurses and doctors, caring for and healing people. The many black women currently in the nursing profession and the increase in black women physicians speak to this fact. Unfortunately, the lack of work on the subject shows that most scholars are not aware of this reality. This study, which focuses on the state of Florida, tells the story of the first black female physician,...
Show moreBlack women have contributed greatly to the healthcare needs of the United States. Women have acted in the capacity of nurses and doctors, caring for and healing people. The many black women currently in the nursing profession and the increase in black women physicians speak to this fact. Unfortunately, the lack of work on the subject shows that most scholars are not aware of this reality. This study, which focuses on the state of Florida, tells the story of the first black female physician, the first black female registered nurse, and the first nurse training program for blacks in the state. This study hopes to show that these black female healthcare pioneers and the healthcare institution played an integral role in the growth and welfare of black citizens and thus the development of the United States. Their work needs to be recognized because they took on a responsibility in a hostile environment created and sustained by the United States, but ultimately overcame obstacles nonetheless and made a lasting impact on the people and time in which they lived.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: AM00000307_00001, famu:57184
Format: E-book

Title: Determination of historic geochemistry and tropic alternations of Apalachicola, FL.
Creator: Donatto Surratt
Abstract/Description: Land use changes are shown to alter the balance of sources and sinks of coastal systems and these alterations are often preserved in the sediment records. In the Apalachicola Bay, productivity has been dependent on freshwater discharge from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. Alterations to ACF watershed ﬂow by diversions constructed since the 1950s and localized disturbances (i.e., dredging, urbanization) threaten the productivity of the bay. Historic water quality data...
Show moreLand use changes are shown to alter the balance of sources and sinks of coastal systems and these alterations are often preserved in the sediment records. In the Apalachicola Bay, productivity has been dependent on freshwater discharge from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. Alterations to ACF watershed ﬂow by diversions constructed since the 1950s and localized disturbances (i.e., dredging, urbanization) threaten the productivity of the bay. Historic water quality data indicates that salinity has increased by ~40% bay-wide. The first objective of this research was to test the hypothesis that profiles for C, N, and P concentrations and 813C and SISN stable isotopic signatures could be applied to benchmark historic natural and anthropogenic activity with in the bay. The second objective was to test the hypothesis that historic nutrient data from cores could be used to assess bay wide productivity, based on phytoplankton biomass, using niche modeling techniques. Our approach to evaluate the first hypothesis was 1) compare historic (past 50 years) river discharge patterns and mass sedimentation rates to C, N, and P concentration and 513 C and ESISN stable isotopic profiles at the river mouth; 2) differentiate between riverine organic matter (OM) and re-suspended OM depositions
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: AM00000304_00001, famu:49740
Format: E-book

Title: Ecological study on the Salt Marsh rush, Juncus roemerianus, North Florida.
Creator: Tacita Arnae Mobley
Date Issued: 1998-04
Identifier: AM00000292_00001, famu:55696
Format: E-book

Title: Effectiveness of disability support services at a Florida community college.
Creator: Dinah Thomas-Harper
Abstract/Description: A double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation survey was administered to 2,000 residents of Franklin and Gulf Counties, Florida, with the objective of documenting any bias as a result of the institutional basis in the hypothetical payment vehicle. The mean willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for state and private payment vehicles are $4.39 and $5.08 per month respectively, significantly different at the 0.15 level. This is evidence of the importance in choosing the institutional...
Show moreA double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation survey was administered to 2,000 residents of Franklin and Gulf Counties, Florida, with the objective of documenting any bias as a result of the institutional basis in the hypothetical payment vehicle. The mean willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for state and private payment vehicles are $4.39 and $5.08 per month respectively, significantly different at the 0.15 level. This is evidence of the importance in choosing the institutional foundation for the payment vehicle. The major determinants of WTP appear to be education, perception of existing water quality and the attitudes of respondents towards the environment. However, WTP responses may vary temporally and spatially with differences in demographics and goods and services valued.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: AM00000288_00001, famu:55218
Format: E-book

Title: Florida's pioneer African American attorneys during the post-Cival War Era.
Creator: Darius Jamal Young
Abstract/Description: This study specifically aims to illuminate the black attorneys’ experience in post—Civil War Florida by focusing on the complex careers of four black lawyers who began their careers during Reconstruction. The discussion will familiarize the reader with the immense obstacles that deterred African American attorneys from gaining prominence and the struggles endured by black lawyers throughout the South. As true regionally, the majority of Florida's legal professionals could not afford to...
Show moreThis study specifically aims to illuminate the black attorneys’ experience in post—Civil War Florida by focusing on the complex careers of four black lawyers who began their careers during Reconstruction. The discussion will familiarize the reader with the immense obstacles that deterred African American attorneys from gaining prominence and the struggles endured by black lawyers throughout the South. As true regionally, the majority of Florida's legal professionals could not afford to practice law exclusively and had to pursue other careers as their main source of income. Politics often emerged as the career of choice for black lawyers. As public figures these men accomplished remarkable feats and flourished as leaders of the black community.8 This essay, in a larger sense, attempts to provide fresh and helpful information concerning the black 7 See generally, Foner, Freedom ’s Lawmakers; Brown, Florida ’s ‘Black Public Oﬂicialsg Richardson, Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida. 8 See generally, Richardson, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida; Woodson, The Negro Professional and the Community; Ward, Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South; Shofner, Nor Is It Over Yet.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: AM00000284_00001, famu:54814
Format: E-book

Title: Integrated resistance management strategies for Spodoptera species (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) in North Florida tomatoes.
Creator: Oscar Emanuel Liburd
Date Issued: 1993-08
Identifier: AM00000286_00001, famu:55109
Format: E-book

Title: Integration of a computer based - automated programming process into the process utilized by the Florida State University Facilities Planning Office.
Creator: Tom C. Deckert
Date Issued: 1999-01-27
Identifier: AM00000294_00001, famu:56006
Format: E-book

Title: Investigation to determine whether Florida's architects consider the ecology of the natural environment in the design process.
Creator: Neill Marshall
Date Issued: 1993-04
Identifier: AM00000296_00001, famu:56406
Format: E-book

Title: Jacksonville Aquarium and Learning Center : Architecture as a catalyst for enhancing environmental education.
Creator: Robert F. Ihasz
Date Issued: 1994-04
Identifier: AM00000285_00001, famu:54792
Format: E-book

Title: Jazz school for downtown Jacksonville : Architecture, sound, and Jazz.
Creator: Darren J. Lueddecke
Abstract/Description: This thesis is an examination of the conception and creation of architecture through the use of human sensory perception, speciﬁcally, architecture through the perception of sound. Furthermore it is a study on the relationship between architecture and the human experience. This thesis focuses on the phenomenon of sound and hearing relative to how the human body engages architecture. The core of the research will elaborate on two specific questions: #1 (Can Architecture be heard?) and #2 (How...
Show moreThis thesis is an examination of the conception and creation of architecture through the use of human sensory perception, speciﬁcally, architecture through the perception of sound. Furthermore it is a study on the relationship between architecture and the human experience. This thesis focuses on the phenomenon of sound and hearing relative to how the human body engages architecture. The core of the research will elaborate on two specific questions: #1 (Can Architecture be heard?) and #2 (How can hearing and the phenomenon of sound potentially shape architectural form ?).
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Date Issued: 2000-12-11
Identifier: AM00000317_00001, famu:61083
Format: E-book

Title: Metaphor in architecture : Applying dance as a metaphor in the design of a Dance Academy for Tallahassee.
Creator: Anthony Cosentino
Date Issued: 1994-04-26
Identifier: AM00000308_00001, famu:25340
Format: E-book

Title: Museum complex for the City of Cedar Key and Island of Atsena Otie, Florida : A feasability study of the environment, architectural, and legal requir.
Creator: Bret D. Hammond
Date Issued: 1991
Identifier: AM00000316_00001, famu:60592
Format: E-book

Title: Optimal enterprise mix for small-scale farmers in Florida : A deversification strategy.
Creator: Keithly G. Jones
Date Issued: 1994-04
Identifier: AM00000310_00001, famu:59784
Format: E-book

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