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The purpose of the study was to conduct an analysis of due process held by selected Indiana secondary school principals. Specifically, the study was to provide an overview of the following:1. The current status of secondary school principals in regard to due process.2. The desired status of secondary school principals in regard to due process.3. The procedures necessary for secondary school principals to obtain due process.Data for the study were obtained through a survey questionnaire which was developed and mailed to 100 randomly selected Indiana secondary school principals. Information for the questionnaire was obtained through the study of instruments reared by professional associations, a review of literature, and known concerns of a select panel of secondary school principals. The information was then embodied into the 31 item questionnaire. Ninety-two useable questionnaires were received and used in the study.Major findings of the study were:1. Forty-three principals were contracted for one year while sixteen principals held three year contracts.2. Thirty-four principals reported that notification or renewal or non-renewal of contracts was received on or before April 30th.3. Fifty-five principals indicated they did not administer under a written job description.4. While 25 principals indicated a written evaluation of their job was received, 57 principals indicated the evaluation of performance was verbal or non-existent.5. Thirteen of the principals indicated the non-renewal of a contract had been experienced and twelve of the thirteen indicated a school board hearing was not granted, an opportunity to defend decision was not given, nor were written reasons for the non-renewal of the contract received by the principal.Major conclusions of the study were: Current Due Process1. The Indiana secondary school principal lacks statutory recognition that provides for early notice of the renewal or non-renewal of contract.2. The majority of the principals lack a written job description and two thirds were not involved in the development of the job description.3. The majority of the principals are not involved in the development of the evaluation instrument.4. The principals usually are not given a hearing nor an opportunity to defend administrative decisions when faced with non-renewal of the contract.5. Principals are usually dismissed without receiving the reasons in writing.Desired Due Process1. Indiana secondary school principals solidly indicated that the most important requirement for due process is sound personnel procedures to channel complaints and the right to provide a fair response.2. Indiana secondary school principals want the right of early notification when faced with the non-renewal of the contract.3. The principals want the opportunity to a fair and impartial hearing before the school board prior to receiving a dismissal notice.4. Principals want the right to be furnished with written, documented charges when faced with dismissal.The following recommendations are based upon the evidence established by research findings and conclusions in this study:The Indiana secondary school principal:1. Should belong to the Indiana Association of Junior and Senior High School Principals for professional support in the position.2. Should initiate and support strong legislation which will aid in establishing the entity of the principal and provide a legal basis for clearly marking out the bounds of principal rights and responsibilities and asserting his authority.3. Should be involved in developing a written job description of performance objectives and criteria which will provide a more objective and less subjective review of the work of the principal.4. Should be given a yearly evaluation in writing based upon a professional evaluation instrument.5. Should be given early notice based on Indiana principal law when faced with the non-renewal of a contract.6. Should be given the opportunity for a fair and impartial hearing before the school board to defend administrative decisions when faced with the non-renewal of a contract.7. Should be given written, documented reasons, non-arbitrary and non-capricious, when faced with the non-renewal of a contract.8. Should be given a multiple year contract, renewal each year, to provide stability and security in the principalship.

This thesis has explored the professional responsibilities of the certified public accountant in rendering opinions on financial statements. Of major concern were the effects of third party litigation upon the accountant's audit responsibility. An analysis of third party litigation revealed the Ultramares precedent and its significance upon the development of changes in the accounting profession. British precedents were paralleled with their counterparts in the United States in order to illustrate the similarities in judicial rulings.In addition to the economic and legal ramifications involved, the implications of "generally accepted accounting principles" were also reviewed. Specific cases were selected on the basis of their relevance to third party litigation. Other sources included both primary and secondary information. Direct correspondence was made with the members of the so-called "Big 8" CPA firms for the purpose of obtaining their respective attitudes toward specific policies which were alluded to in this study.

The purpose of the study was to assess the general knowledge of Indiana school law possessed by Indiana public secondary school teachers. The population consisted of three hundred and thirty randomly selected Indiana public secondary school teachers.A researcher developed assessment instrument comprised of thirty items from Indiana school law in the areas of teacher tenure, pupil control, and tort liability was utilized. One statistical hypothesis and six statistical subhypotheses were analyzed with a Z test. The five percent level of significance was established as the probability level for non-acceptance of the hypothesis and subhypotheses.Conclusions1. The percentage of Indiana public secondary school teachers who possess a fair or better level of knowledge of pupil control, and tort liability is likely between seven and fifteen.2. There is no significant difference in the level of knowledge of Indiana school law possessed by Indiana public Indiana school law in the combined areas of teacher tenure, secondary school teachers when grouped according to years of teaching experience, location of their teacher education training, and inclusion of instructional units on school law in their teacher education training.3. The percentage of Indiana public secondary teachers who possess a fair or better level of knowledge of Indiana school law in the area of teacher tenure is likely between four and twelve.4. The percentage of Indiana public secondary school teachers who possess a fair or better level of knowledge of Indiana school law in the area of pupil control is likely between twenty-two and thirty-four.5. The percentage of Indiana public secondary school teachers who possess a fair or better level of knowledge of Indiana school law in the area of tort liability is likely between seventeen and twenty-seven.

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We investigate dynamical processes on random and regular fractals. The (static) problem of percolation in the semi-infinite plane introduces many pertinent ideas including real space renormalisation group (RSRG) fugacity transformations and scaling forms. We study the percolation probability to determine the surface critical behaviour and to establish exponent relations. The fugacity approach is generalised to study random walks on diffusion-limited aggregates (DLA). Using regular and random models, we calculate the walk dimensionality and demonstrate that it is consistent with a conjecture by Aharony and Stauffer. It is shown that the kinetically grown DLA is in a distinct dynamic universality class to lattice animals. Similarly, the speculation of Helman-Coniglio-Tsallis regarding diffusion on self-avoiding walks (SAWs) is shown to be incorrect. The results are corroborated by an exact enumeration analysis of the internal structure of SAWs. A 'spin' and field theoretic Hamiltonian formulation for the conformational and resistance properties of random walks is presented. We consider Gaussian random walks, SAWs, spiral SAWs and valence walks. We express resistive susceptibilities as correlation functions and hence e-expansions are calculated for the resistance exponents. For SAWs, the local crosslinks are shown to be irrelevant and we calculate corrections to scaling. A scaling description is introduced into an equation-of-motion method in order to study spin wave damping in d-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg ferro-, antiferro- and ferri- magnets near pc . Dynamic scaling is shown to be obeyed by the Lorentzian spin wave response function and lifetime. The ensemble of finite clusters and multicritical behaviour is also treated. In contrast, the relaxational dynamics of the dilute Anisotropic Heisenberg model is shown to violate conventional dynamic scaling near the percolation bicritical point but satisfies instead a singular scaling behaviour arising from activation of Bloch walls over percolation cluster energy barriers.