Sentences with phrase «american university culture»

Alex Berezow suggests that an «absence of intellectual diversity has contributed to a toxic and intolerant American university culture» (6...

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Science, Jews, and Secular Culture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cCulture By David A. Hollinger Princeton University Press, 178 pages, $ 24.95 This short and eclectic collection of essays and lectures is weakly tied together by the argument» central in some chapters, marginal in others» that science was a powerful tool in the secularization of American cultureculture.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential univerCulture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential univerculture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

The distinguished sociologist of the University of Virginia and author of the acclaimed Culture Wars here undertakes a close examination of what, in theory and practice, «moral education» means in most American schools.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Paul S. Boyer, professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is the author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992).

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

A long, reflective, and in my opinion profound essay on the basic tension in American culture that was published too recently to be taken fully into account in this book is Wilson Carey McWilliams, The Idea of Fraternity in America, University of California Press, 1973.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

These six are the president and deputy of the Commission for the Message, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Archbishop Victor Fernandez, rector of the Catholic University of Argentina; the general superior of the Congregation of Jesus, Fr Adolfo Nicolás; Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes, president of the Latin American Bishops Conference; Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington; and the bishop of Cheju, South Korea, Peter Kang - U-il.

Which is all the more reason to return to an important argument by Sherman Jackson, a black American Muslim who serves as King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California.

George M. Marsden teaches in the Divinity School at Duke University and is the author of Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth - Century Evangelism, 1870 - 1925.

John M. Staudenmaier, «The Influence of Communication Technologies on Modern American Culture: A Framework for Analysis,» paper presented at the University of Dayton Conference on Religious Telecommunications, Dayton, OH, September 26, 1988, p. 4.

Alex McFarland, the Christian director of Worldview and Apologetics at North Greenville University, holds regular public debates with Silverman about God and the place of religion in American culture.

George Huntston Williams, ed., The Harvard Divinity School: Its Place in Harvard University and in American Culture (Boston, 1954).

Mr. Smith is an instructor in mass media and American culture in the department of popular culture in Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

The sign said: «Modern American Culture Museum of the Oxford University Press: Tonight's Feature: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America.»

Recently, he wrote a landmark article for The Atlantic with Greg Lukianoff, «The Coddling of the American Mind,» about the culture of oversensitivity on university campuses.

Warnes is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Leeds University in England and Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University.

«American parenting stands out as the most odd of parenting practices when compared with non-Western cultures,» says Meredith Small, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University and author of Our Babies, Ourselves.

Equally inspired by the culture there, she returned to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to complete her undergraduate degree in Latin American Social and Cultural Studies in 2005.

Last month, the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture released survey results assessing the «Culture of American Families.»

For generations in American culture, breast - feeding was the primary way of nourishing infants and young children, said Dr. Lawrence M. Gartner, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago who headed the pediatrics academy group that released the new guidelines.

She was Projects Manager at the Regional Partnership on Culture and Development (FHI 360) and Research Manager at the Gerhart Center, American University in Cairo.

Become open to learning about the law and policies pertaining to your office and ask questions often, and partner with local universities» academic as they know more about your ministerial needs and guides understand the domestic culture than an expatriate of Euro / American background.

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americans tick.

When chemical engineering student Zhe Loy arrived at Rice University in Houston, Texas, from his native Singapore, he was surprised at the heterogeneity of American culture.

«Our session is about communicating across different sectors — university, government, nonprofits — each of which has its own sets of structures, cultures and expectations for how information is presented,» said Don Engel (2006 - 07 Legislative Branch Fellow sponsored by American Physical Society).

In addition to emphasizing the recruitment of graduate students, American universities have a number of on - campus service facilities such as modern research labs, well - stocked reagent rooms, and cell culture facilities.

Three years ago, a distraught message from a teen to Anthony Aveni, an astronomer at Colgate University who specializes in meso - American culture, led him to write The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, a book that investigates and discredits the 2012 scenarios.

Lekson and anthropologist Peter Peregrine of Lawrence University in Wisconsin believe that the mound cultures of the American East, the pueblo cultures of the American Southwest, and the pyramid cultures of the Mexican highlands were not only familiar but possibly even integrated with one another.

«First Aid, CPR and AED training need to become part of a larger culture of safety within workplaces,» said Michael Kurz, MD, chair of the American Heart Association's Systems of Care Subcommittee and associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

Robert Thompson, a pop culture guru, conjures pint - size autos with moss roofs Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americanculture guru, conjures pint - size autos with moss roofs Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes AmericanCulture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americans tick.

Dr. Samuel «Ohukani «ōhi`a Gon of The Nature Conservancy explained the sacred standing of the Ohi'a in native Hawaiian culture, and Andy Newhouse described the success the State University of New York has had genetically editing blight - proof American chestnut trees, heading off their extinction by an invasive fungus.

The 28th annual event, a celebration of American Indian cultures, will be held Saturday, April 21, in the Washington University Field House on the Danforth Campus.

IB35AC is taught every fall semester and is part of the University's American Cultures Program.

Almost any topic is welcome The Lifeprint Library at American Sign Language University (ASLU) provides links to ASL and Deaf Culture related information and resources.

She is director of Film & Media Studies and Associate Professor of English, Film & Video Studies, African and African American Studies, Sport & American Culture, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University.

She asserts that «Typical university curricula leave out contributions of people of color to American culture, except in special courses in African American studies,» a flatly false claim.

Previously, she taught at New York University where she served as chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and was director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase knowledge of the cultures, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of Latin America; foster cooperation and understanding among the people of the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social progress, and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere.

* 17 - 19 — Native American education: Culture - Based Education Resources for Teachers of Indian Students Institiute, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Center, at the Thunderbird Hotel and Convention Center in Minneapolis.

She previously authored the book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press, 2011), which received the Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association.

Featured in this video: Professor Sarah Churchwell (American Literature, University of East Anglia), Dr Adriano Rabelo (Lecturer in Brazilian Portugese Language and Culture)

The university's cornucopia of African - American culture, music, activism, revelry and historical scholarship had a profound effect upon his sense of self and nurtured his lifelong commitment to the progress of the black community.

As Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education and History at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, so aptly explains in his provocative 2014 New York Times article, «Why is American Teaching so Bad?»

On May 10, 2017, ASCD live - streamed the fifth Whole Child Symposium live from American University in Washington, D.C., for a conversation about equity in education that covered issues of race, economics, culture, gender, and more.

She earned her BA from Stanford University in Native American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, and her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in Culture, Communities, and Education.

Beginning in the 1930s, author Joan Burbick, an American studies instructor at Washington State University, traces the history of the strong womenfolk whose contributions to rodeo culture rival that of their bronc - bustin» male counterparts.