Sentences with phrase «aiaw small college»

However easy it is to demonize and to hate from a distance (I won't provide links, but, trust me, the demonization and the hate was quite evident online), it's a bit harder to do so in the context of a small college, where habits of conversation are encouraged, where people talk the talk (even if — sinners as we all are — we don't always walk the walk) of fairminded openness to the truth, and where Others (not «The Other,» which, as a colleague rightly suggested, is too abstract) are people we encounter day in and day out.

The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

I've been speaking at many small colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.

Or Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Reed, or... well, suffice it to say we had a choice of dozens of small colleges that present a similar profile: formally committed to the liberal arts, highly selective in admissions, well - regarded for the quality of their academic programs, and quite openly enthusiastic about a handful of contentious concepts.

I have watched so many small colleges sucked down the drain by specious appeals to «liberal values» and «top drawer scholarship,» as though one can not find excellent teachers who are also Christians.

And Middlebury is a small college — imagine the cost to a major university.

While I was visiting these small colleges, I thought of my own alma mater, Haverford College.

We'd been working at a small college our entire marriage, and we'd gone to the «college church.»

We'd been working at a small college our entire marriage, and we'd gone to the «college...

Determined laity founded organizations and publications, a few small colleges and universities, radio stations, TV networks, and blogs to promote Church teaching in positive, attractive, and intelligent ways.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

More than anything else, what transformed the small colleges of the 1870s into the research universities of the 1920s and then into the multi-universities of the late twentieth century was money from industry and government for technical research and development.

Indeed, some of the most impressive small colleges in the nation are in this group.

Faculty in the social and natural sciences will hesitate to apply to a small college where such a policy of oaths exists, even if only in another department.

Just finished my grading for the day (I teach at a small college), and I am heading out.

One more gift of the Churches to the nation was the small college.

The deli was known throughout our small college town for its incredible bread and fresh baked cookies.

RPI is a small college in upstate New York.

It includes five of the eleven top - ranking elevens, some of the scrappiest of the small colleges, and is likely to produce some major decisions in the next fortnight

While waiting to be noticed, they are spending the fall in the brand - new Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) along with another former small college, University of the Pacific, previous independent San Jose State and four other schools.

In 1957 the Big Red went 8 - 1 and led the nation's small colleges in total offense while running out of the T.

I play middle linebacker for a small college and have a habit of tackling headfirst, though not with the intention of spearing; that's just the way I play.

Nor is the College of Faith's very identity, which is a remix of different worlds — part performance training, part Sunday school, part street ministry, and part mainstream small college sports — at least that's the intention.

The fourth acronym, ASCAA, stands for American Small College Athletic Association, of which the three College of Faith campuses are members in good standing.

The third is for the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), a network of more than 100 small colleges inclusive of NCAA and NAIA schools.

Let me give you an example: if it turns out that Ryan Kalil has nothing in his tank after all OR Matt Kalil is the guy that the Vikings thought he was when they let him walk OR Taylor Moton isn't ready to make the jump from small college OT to NFL OG, please realize that Isaiah Wynn can play every position on the offensive line.

He is looking at smaller colleges mostly, including any Ivy League program that will find a way to move some grant money his way for an academic scholarship if he wrestles.

«I told him, «You might want to consider a smaller college,» but he wasn'thaving any of it,» says Welker's father, Leland.

I'm a native of Fort Worth, Texas, now teaching at a small college in Saskatchewan.

Collins» Temple will probably look a lot like Rhule's come Saturday — pro-style on offense with spread as needed, and a defense that's he's shifted from small colleges to the SEC with no real overlying schematic theme other than fearlessness and a penchant for blitzing.

We also have to factor in the paradigms of the relative worth of well known players versus the small college guys like TEs O J Howard of Alabama, but also Michael Roberts of Toledo.

He went to a small college, Western Maryland, and then toiled as a high school coach and athletic administrator in Baltimore.

But things look different for Amherst and its 10 Division III brethren — Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams — that make up the New England Small College Athletic - Conference (NESCAC).

Like the claims of a patent medicine pitchman, the spectacular Saturday afternoon statistics produced by football stars from the small colleges should be judged with healthy suspicion.

And some of these small colleges play in a pretty tough league.»

So many of those that join sports clubs in their first term at Oxford come to view it as the best decision they made at university — you'll make friends from outside of the small college world, you'll meet a valuable cross-section of people — your captain might even be able to help with your tute sheets!

The Small College Defensive Player of the Year, Joseph had a winding path to the draft that included sitting out his first season at Dubuque and packing on 40 pounds during his college career.

Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minn., for instance, is just a 40 - minute drive from the University of Minnesota, and several smaller colleges are within an hour's ride.

Greatest sports betting picks and prediction in the sports service industry is North Dakota State covers easily as Small College Non Conference Game of the Year part of a 12 - 4 college basketball tear.

Since debuting this column, the majority of games I've highlighted have focused on smaller college basketball schools.

There are large universities with well - known athletic programs, and small colleges with modest teams.

She began her career as a writer in a small college public relations office in 1986.

A Civil Eats piece written by Steve Holt last fall documents the ever - increasing number of college courses and formal degree programs focusing on the food system, a phenomenon which Holt says is «happening everywhere — from the coasts to small college towns and everywhere in between.»

An educator from a small college in Maryland has been chosen to be the next president of Buffalo State College.

He majored in psychology at Dowling, a small college in Oakdale.

It was at a small college with little possibility of creating an extra faculty position.

I know one young organic chemist who stayed research - active while visiting a small college by collaborating with the department's sole biochemist.

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

In 1952, when her husband became head of the pharmacology department at the University of South Dakota, the family (which now included two young daughters) moved to the small college town of Vermillion in the southeast corner of the state.

«Some people told us we were crazy to move to a small college,» says Howard.