Sentences with phrase «academic initiatives at»

Prior to his appointment, Dr. McLendon, a native Floridian, was appointed the first Curator of Academic Initiatives at The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College.

Alice Kain (Assistant Registrar and Coordinator of Academic Initiatives at the Smart Museum of Art) discusses the relationship between British and American design

The reviewer is Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.

Professor James Ketterer, the director of International Academic Initiatives at Bard College, says there are many moving parts to the agreement.

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At GFI, Allison advises academic research and education initiatives related to clean meat and plant - based meat alternatives.

Students at Forest Bluff School not only exhibit academic excellence, but also the many qualities that constitute positive character development: empathy, integrity, grit, resilience, responsibility, initiative, self - discipline, self - reflection, and respect for themselves, others, and the environment.

Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.

Around 19 board members, along with a handful of guests and community members, convened at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator in Downtown Binghamton to discuss ongoing initiatives and present proposals for the 2018 - 19 academic year.

Syracuse University is planning a $ 5,060 tuition increase in the fall of 2018 as part of a plan to fund $ 100 million in academic initiatives, which will likely bring tuition at the university up to more than $ 50,000 a year.

Notably, this includes a range of initiatives aimed at school - age students, the establishment of the university Academic Centre of Excellence, and a number of schemes designed to allow individuals to transition into a career in cyber security.

Began this academic year, the FSHS initiative aims to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level of education at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

According to him, the policy is a good initiative aimed at helping the Ghanaian child to climb the academic ladder.

Researchers who want to participate in large - scale projects like CCG initiatives should look at government and academic laboratories.

Bozon, an applied mathematician at the Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Cemagref) in Montpellier, France, is part of a new initiative launched by the French government in the summer of 2007 to broaden career avenues for academic researchers.

The initiative is an extension of Biden's 2016 appointment as head of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an assignment President Barack Obama extended, aimed at pulling together federal agencies and private, academic and philanthropic organizations to identify new cancer research topics, break down barriers slowing advances and pinpoint necessary investment areas to advance the fight against cancer.

A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.

I was there at the beginning of the Roadmap [former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni's set of cross-NIH initiatives] when we were setting all this up and we always understood that the CTSAs were a fantastic opportunity to reengineer clinical research in academic health centers and provide a new home for this.

Darryl De Vivo, M.D., Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center and a Past - President of the Child Neurology Society, noted, «The SMA Foundation's work on behalf of children with SMA on all fronts including academic, governmental and biotechnical initiatives has served to heighten awareness of SMA in particular and Motor Neuron diseases in general.

«I have always been passionate about converting academic research findings into medical applications, which is why I got involved in translational research initiatives at Gladstone,» said Simon.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

An evaluation of the initiative by academics at Sheffield Hallam University found that those pupils who took part in the study made an average of two months more progress in English and science than a similar group of pupils who did not take part, and therefore formed a control group.

[I] t has been the prevailing academic practice to treat the faculty member as the copyright owner of works that are created independently and at the faculty member's own initiative for traditional academic purposes.

In their portfolios, Salvin says, «teachers must have evidence of their students satisfying our critical academic skills, which are the performance standards of project - based learning at the school and the schoolwide initiatives.»

Belonging to a deliberately small group of academic educators, each with a strong practitioner history, members of Sustainability Frontiers have agreed to collaborate in different combinations as they undertake local, national and international projects, consultancies and initiatives at the leading edge of sustainability education, often in partnership with other organizations.

Mark Rhatigan, Executive Head Teacher, said: «At Erdington Academy our focus is not only on improving academic standards, but it is also on delivering innovative initiatives to help focus their minds on their future and raise their aspirations.

Martin Evans, Head of the Geography Department, commented on the academic impact that the Adventure Learning experience has on his groups, «the wide variety of fieldwork opportunities at the centre mean that it is easy for students to pursue their individual initiatives.

Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw - Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high - impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.

Demonstrated by efforts like the Excellence in Academic Advising program or the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (IPAAS) initiative, the question of how to improve advising to ensure student success is gaining traction at colleges and universities.

If legislation voiding the state's current academic standards passes, Indiana will be the first state to exit the Common Core initiative and write its own expectations for what students should know and learn at each grade level.

Initiatives such as identifying students at risk for dropping out early and providing the necessary academic and social / emotional supports; the expansion of alternative and flexible pathways to graduation, such as on - line credit recovery courses, have proven to be effective in reaching more students and keeping them in school, Warwick said.

She continued to be promoted into more senior roles: first as senior vice president of implementation, where she managed the implementation of a one - to - one laptop initiative at the high school level, and next as senior vice president of program development, where she directed the creation of 12 academic, multimedia, distance - learning courses for high school students.

«Mr. Sheldon brings with him a wealth of professional experiences that will help us to grow in several different areas in which we know we can improve, including more effective community outreach efforts, continuing to support our Social - Emotional Learning initiatives, and supporting the continued academic growth of all student groups at Southeast.»

The NFER has argued that practical initiatives are needed to bridge the gulf between teachers and academics — at system and school level.

Our recent research examines the evaluation of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program (Molnar, Smith, and Zahorik, 2000; Molnar et al., 2001; Zahorik, Molnar, Ehrle, & Halbach, 2000), an initiative that requires participating schools to maintain the student - teacher ratio in K — 3 classes at 15:1 and develop rigorous, standards - based academic curriculums.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

Nearly three years later, the results at P.S. 123, with its 530 students, offer a small window into what the city's larger initiative is seeing: an increase in student attendance and family participation in school activities, a drop in chronic absenteeism, but uneven academic progress.

In remarks at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., the president used the good - news announcement as an opportunity to tout his education initiatives, from Preschool for All through the America's College Promise free community college partnership.

ESEA TITLE II, PART A Michelle Pierre - Farid, the Chief Academic Officer for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, calls out the importance of using ESEA Title II - A funds at the state and local levels to support initiatives that bolster principal effectiveness.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

Targeted academic initiatives are relatively easy to assess: if you are putting in a new reading program, you can assess its success by looking at test scores (from state tests, district benchmarks, or other internal assessments) and comparing results before and after the program was put in place.

She also conducted a three - year study of the Parent Institute for Quality Education program, which was designed to help new immigrant parents better support their children's academic, social, and emotional growth at home and through school involvement, as well as a three - year evaluation of the California's Healthy Start School - Linked Services initiative.

The third webinar in FCAN's series on Connecting Education and Jobs in Florida featured Dr. Jan Ignash, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs for the State University System of Florida Board of Governors and Dr. Michael Georgiopoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida discussing the Targeted Educational Attainment (TEAm) Grant, an initiative funded by the Florida Legislature in 2013 to boost degrees in high - demand fields requiring bachelor's degrees.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for expanded learning time unless these activities provide enrichment and engaging academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.

Even families who typically do not have much time or opportunity to engage in education can find ways to be involved in their children's academics with the help of school resources and initiatives.9 Then it becomes paramount for policymakers, educators, and school leaders to know how their institutions can best design their practices and services at the secondary level to maximize postsecondary student success, especially for underrepresented groups.

For more information about using the Academic Focus Gallery, contact Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, at [email protected].

This exhibition is organized by Richard Neer, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at The University of Chicago, in consultation with Berit Ness, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives.

Iva Olah (University of Chicago PhD 2013), Mellon Foundation Curatorial Intern at the Smart Museum, in consultation with Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Associate Director of Academic Initiatives.

To discuss the possibilities for your classes or research, contact Ellen C. Raimond, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, at [email protected] or 919-684-8067.

The change in policy could have a significant effect, both at City College, where student resentment about the community center has repeatedly boiled over, and across the entire university system, where faculty resistance to Pathways, a contested academic initiative, is at a high simmer.