Sentences with phrase «american studies center»

This symposium celebrates the publication of Asian American Art: A History, 1850 — 1970 and is one of the events commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and other ethnic studies centers at UCLA.

She is an affiliated faculty member of the Latin American Studies Center.

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Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

The richest 7 % of American households saw their net worth grow by 28 % to a whopping $ 3.2 million during between 2009 to 2011, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.

The findings appear to show that public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

After all, almost half of the American population visit Facebook for news and information, according to a Pew Research Center study.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

One out of every four American Internet users — about 33 million people — has rated a product, service, or person online, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Washington, D.C. - based Pew Research Center.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers on the costs of employee turnover and found that it costs businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

Russia also has a long history of harassing American diplomats, a pattern that has intensified in Moscow since 2014, said Andrew Foxall, director of the Russia Studies Center at the Henry Jackson Society, a London think tank.

She holds several retirement designations, including the QPA and QKA through the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, the AIF through the Center for Fiduciary Studies, and the RMA through the Retirement Income Industry Association.

Americans ages 65 + on the other hand, have on average been much less impacted by the great recession, experiencing a net worth decline of just 6 % between 2005 and 2009 vs. a 28 % decline among all Americans according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

He is a member of the Economics Advisory Council of the Duquesne University Palumbo Donahue School of Business, is an advisory board member and center associate of the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center, and was a 2014 American Council on Germany Young Lcenter associate of the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center, and was a 2014 American Council on Germany Young LCenter, and was a 2014 American Council on Germany Young Leader.

More than half of American baby boomers (born from 1946 - 1964) plan to work past age 65 or not retire at all, according to a report by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.

He is an associate of the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center, former co-director of the Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany, and former President of the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, a local chapter of the National Association of Business Economics (NABE).

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, where he is also Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center and UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

Support for Islamic extremism is not rising among Muslim Americans, who are much less likely to support terrorism than Muslims in many other countries, according to the study by the Pew Research Center in Washington.

Daniel V. A. Olson, assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University South Bend was working at the Center for the Study of American Religion in Princeton, New Jersey, at the time this article was written.

«The Rise of Asian Americans,» a study released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, got a lot of press for finding that new Asian immigrants now outnumber new Hispanic immigrants.

Earlier this month, I moderated a panel at Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Center on the nascent alliance between American Evangelicals and the Russian Orthodox Church.

More Americans want more religion in politics, according to a new Pew Research Center study exploring the «growing appetite» for churches endorsing political candidates and other intersections of church and state.

Though most Americans believe employers should be required to supply birth control in their health insurance plans, they are split down the middle on whether businesses should be required to provide wedding services for same - sex couples, as well as on whether transgender people should be allowed to use the restroom of their choice, says a study released this week by the Pew Research Center.

Just 31 percent said they approve of raising the refugee cap, much lower than the 58 percent of black Protestants (two - thirds of whom identify as evangelicals) and 51 percent of overall Americans who approved, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

«One of the most striking recent trends in the American religious landscape has been the growing share of the unaffiliated, and this study allows us to see where Latinos fit into that story,» said Cary Funk, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the co-authors of the study.

Coleman is currently Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology in southern California.

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

The support and interest to carry out the project — from AIPRAL (the Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches) and from staff of CELEP (Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies)-- was determinant in my decision to continue with plans for the publication of this book.

For many years Ellis (university professor and director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University) has been a persistent critic of the ruthlessness of nationalistic Zionism.

«They're certainly not getting new vocations, new members, at the rate they had been before the Second Vatican Council,» says Kathleen Cummings, associate director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.

That question was at the center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.&center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.&Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.»

Under the leadership of the American Association of Theological Schools and with the financial support of the Carnegie Corporation a study center was established to correlate the work of self - examination and to formulate its results.

The latest study from Pew Research Center, released this week, and the General Social Survey, released just a month ago, reveals what I have termed the «evangelicalization» of American Christianity.

However, half of all Americans (51 %) and two - thirds of Republicans (64 %) do want a Sunday school teacher — or at least someone who shares their religious beliefs, according to a study released today by the Pew Research Center.

For example, 35 percent of Americans describe themselves as «born again or evangelical Christian,» according to the Pew Research Center's 2014 US Religious Landscape Study, and 25 percent identify with evangelical churches.

Several books of the contextual sort also considered the suburban environment: Andrew W. Greeley, The Church and the Suburbs (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1959); Frederick A. Shippey, Protestantism in Suburban Life (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964); Gaylord Noyce, The Responsible Suburban Church (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970); W. Widick Schroeder, Victor Obenhaus, Larry Jones, and Thomas Sweetser, Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Dennis Smith is a mission worker for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and works as general coordinator of the Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies (CELEP).

This essay is adapted from a lecture first given at the Center for the Study of the Principles of the American Founding at the University of Chicago.

While Chicago no longer exists as a center of process thought and is to a lesser extent than before identified with philosophy - theology dialogue and interaction, it leaves a legacy worthy of study by anyone interested in the history of these modes of inquiry in American religious thought.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

America's «Nones» — the nonreligious — are at an all - time high, now comprising nearly one in five Americans (19 %), according to a new study by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.

A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans are warming up to people from across a diversity of religions.

R. Scott Appleby teaches history and directs the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.

For both critical and appreciative critical responses, see the Center for Process Studies bibliography, «Process Thought, Anglo - American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism.»

Professor Elshtain is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Guggenheim Fellow; a Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation; holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress; a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, where she also served on the Board of Trustees.

Because of the vast amount of research in the social sciences, American universities are especially well equipped to become great centers for the study of the history of religions.