Sentences with phrase «american academic institutions»

They respect knowledge gained through lived experience monitored by elders who differ profoundly in social class and worldview from the teachers and education encountered in American academic institutions.

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It would also, I hope, go some way toward remedying the privatization and trivialization of religious commitment that is so endemic to both American culture in general and to academic institutions in particular.

As American Catholics bring liberalism into their Church and academic institutions, they bring with it the moral confusion that usually accompanies it.

For two decades, activists like Carmichael, street prophets like Farrakhan, and academic mountebanks like Baraka and the egregious Angela Davis have been stars of the campus circuit, indoctrinating new generations in the divisive and racially polarizing ideologies of the radical paradigm, and in the denigration of American values and institutions.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

In April, 1956, the American Association of University Professors voted to censure six institutions for violations of academic freedom, most of them in loyalty procedures.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Cornell University's president, David Skorton, represented the academic establishment — in particular the Association of American Universities, whose 61 member institutions soak up half the federal research funding and award half of all doctorates in the United States.

Rather than requiring an institution to reduce the number of African American and Latino students admitted, Justices C. Thomas and A. Scalia pointed out that a university could also reduce its academic selectivity to accommodate a race - neutral policy.

28 November 2011: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the journal Science, partners with the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research to provide academic and research institutions across Algeria with site - wide access to Science.

«This site is a handy central distribution point for science news - chiefly press releases from American academic and governmental institutions.

A team of researchers from several academic institutions — including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Yale University, University of Chicago, the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the National Museum of Mongolia — used a scientific dating technique known as radiocarbon dating to estimate the spread of domestic horse ritual at deer stones and khirigsuurs.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

The College of Dental Medicine was awarded the ADEA / ADEAGies Foundation Dental Research Scholarship, given every two years by the American Dental Education Association to an academic institution with an exceptional commitment to promoting student dental research.

April 13, 2018 - A unique partnership among institutions (an African government, an American bio-pharmaceutical company, an American non-governmental organization (NGO), a Swiss academic institution, and several American global energy companies) has brought us closer...

NeuWrite quickly became a noted forum for interdisciplinary work, attracting academics from institutions across New York City (including Rockefeller, Mt. Sinai, CUNY, SUNY and NYU), as well as professionals from media platforms such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR, Scientific American Mind, and The Story Collider.

September 16, 2015 University of Chicago Medicine hosts symposium of leading Chicago heart researchers More than 100 leading researchers from Chicago's major academic medical centers as well as six out - of - state institutions will meet at the American Heart Association's 2015 Chicago Research Network Symposium, hosted by University of Chicago Medicine's Section of Cardiology, on Friday, September 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the University's Gordon Center for Integrative Science, 929 E. 57th St., Chicago.

This report was prepared by Informa with contributions from leading organisations including Consilium Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Fielding Nair International, The Arabian Education and Training Group, AURA Academic Institutions, Kids First Group, Brighton College International Schools, Blossom Nursery / Blossom Early Learning Centre, American University in Sharjah and Nora systems GmbH.

The demand for charters in rural communities is limited, because rural Americans regard their district - operated schools as valuable institutions for reasons that go beyond their academic worth.

According to a survey scheduled for release this week by the American Council on Education, 57 percent of higher - education institutions experienced mid-year budget cuts during the 1991 - 92 academic year.

And it will support fellowships, interdisciplinary graduate programs, and partnerships between academic institutions and innovative companies to prepare a generation of Americans to meet this generational challenge.»

According to the report, among the 25 organizations helping to develop and grow the Aakash app ecosystem are academic institutions such as the IITs and American Digital University, private companies, and service providers.

The University of Florida is one of the largest academic institutions in the United States and is accredited by the Association of American Universities and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Several academic institutions now offer specialized training in animal behavior for veterinarians, including board certification in the specialty by the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists.

The University of Santo Tomas became the first - ever academic institution in the Philippines and abroad, to be recognized by the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) as...

Due to prestigious Californian - art programmes at universities and art schools, and the close relationship with these educational institutions enjoyed by the many iconic artists who've worked there as professors, the art scene in L.A. has been considered the most significant part of American contemporary art on an academic level.

And it will support fellowships and interdisciplinary graduate programs and partnerships between academic institutions and innovative companies to prepare a generation of Americans to meet this generational challenge.

In 2014, the AIA announced a partnership with the American Institute of Architects Foundation and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to form the first - ever Design and Health Research Consortium, a group of leading academic public health institutions and universities that helps translate research on design's influence on public health into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general public.

Perhaps because Canadians tend to think of their universities as public institutions, and therefore presumptively open to the public, they have not considered questions of access to the same extent as Americans, whose academic culture includes private institutions along with public ones.

Their responsibilities include chairmanships of national and state committees of the American Bar Association; presidents of Inns of Court and state and local bar associations; presidents of trade and law associations and chambers of commerce; and board members of corporations, academic institutions, charities, and special legal organizations.

Qualifying continuing education activities include the following: Courses offered or approved by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) or its affiliates; courses accredited, approved or offered by the Commission on Accreditation for Marital and Family Therapist Education (COAMFTE), National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the American Association of Social Workers (AASW), the American Psychological Association (APA), or their affiliates, provided the coursework is clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and family therapy; courses offered or approved by institutions accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marital and Family Therapist Education (COAMFTE); graduate coursework in or related to the discipline of marital and family therapy field offered by a regionally accredited academic institution, either audited or by credit; or programs in or related to the discipline of marital and family therapy sponsored or approved by a regionally accredited academic institution, provided the coursework is clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and family therapy.»