Sentences with phrase «on academics a change»

Summer Fun with Hands - On Academics A change in seasons doesn't mean the learning has to stop.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

Beyond this work, Val consults and advises government officials, academics and private sector leaders on changing trends in training and skill development and speaks regularly on innovation and talent.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Therefore those of us who sought to initiate a feminist theological paradigm shift in the early 1970s must now concentrate on changing the disciplinary discourses of academic religious scholarship and of Christian theologies.

Previous incidents include her academic paper on black liberation theology that was interpreted by some to endorse a kind of Marxism, a Facebook photo showing her at a party on Halsted Street at the same time as Chicago's Pride Parade, and her suggestions that the college change some of its language about sexuality.

It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

If anything, they were hoping for changes that would have benefited partial qualifiers, such as letting them practice during their year on the sidelines and granting them an extra year of eligibility if their academic record proved to be satisfactory.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

«There is little evidence that working directly on changing students» grit or perseverance would be an effective lever for improving their academic performance,» Farrington and her colleagues wrote.

«Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long term development and success of children.»

Although the actual curriculum changes based on the individual facility, most will include a combination of academics, life skills experiences and various therapy modalities, like recreational and experiential options along with the usual group, family and individual therapies.

Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.

But they may not be as familiar with the vast array of academic studies on effective communication about climate change.

American academic Philip Tetlock has been at the vanguard of advocates for change, with his project on political prediction.

The school's mission has changed and the focus on academics has gotten slightly lost over the years under Kaloyeros» tenure, said UUP's Kowal, who agreed that the university president should be based in Utica.

While many of the changes in the bill seem to address lawmakers» concerns about the provisions» impact on the accused, the new legislation also includes requirements that those found «responsible» are labeled as such on their academic transcripts.

One of Skelos» Senate Republican allies, speaking on background, dismissed the idea of a leadership changes as academic.

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity byChange — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bychange targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

On topic questions included: what defines a «community school», whether community schools are only located in low - income neighborhoods, whether there is a plan to extend universal pre-K to three year olds, how much more expensive community schools are to operate than «regular» schools, why was the UFT not at this announcement, whether academic gains are expected from community schools and how will such gains be measured, what programs are added to «regular» schools as they are converted into «community» schools, potential changes to the admissions process for specialized high schools and whether the seats announced today are new programs or new spaces.

Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

Jessica Hellmann, director of the Institute on the Environment and professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota, discussed her experience with creating change in academic cultures.

On climate change, the researchers found that political identity was a more important signal of where respondents stood than their academic acumen or scientific sophistication.

«There's really been an explosion of assistive technology that has changed young scientists» academic experiences and makes possible work experiences that might not have been possible 20 years ago,» says Virginia Stern, director of AAAS's Project on Science, Technology and Disability in Washington, D.C. (AAAS is the parent organization of Science Careers.)

«It's good to build on our previous research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

But those changes aren't making much of a dent in the cultural norms that put a premium on productivity, especially at the start of an academic career.

While it doesn't specifically focus on industry, the international Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program offers fellowships to entrepreneurs (as well as academics, artists, and policymakers) who want to become leaders and change - makers in the field.

Pielke is a target of an investigation by «Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives... into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.»

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

Part of the trip, too, was to get out of the day - to - day, academic context of research on climate change — to get some introspection from a geologic standpoint.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

The change was hard on his family — especially Weddle, who left her prestigious academic position just after receiving a promotion.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

The move from academe to commerce doesn't necessarily mean a definitive change of mindset for Ph.D. s who choose industrial postdoctoral projects and academic postdocs who set out on careers in industry.

While the preponderance of temporary contracts may have many downsides, there is a risk that changes to the academic system would have significant knock - on effects, Phillips recognizes in her email to Science Careers.

Because students from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to be more affected by a change in peer groups through day - to - day interaction with academically inclined peers and academic groups, there may be a greater effect of university education on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

'' [Weber and Curry] may have different views on climate change, but I think that's a strength of our department that we can have academic freedom and host faculty members with different opinions about subjects,» Huey said.

This is slowly changing, but we need to keep pushing to change the culture so that PIs think highly of not only the academic but also the nonacademic jobs that their trainees go on to take.

In an informal survey of recruiters and academic scientists on hiring panels, most said that a candidate's decision to participate or not in social media wouldn't change their hiring decisions.

And Branka Bošnjak, president of science and education project at the Movement for Change party, said in a press release that although CANU admitted some academics with questionable references, it always had some criteria on who it admitted.

His work focused on drug company payments to a psychiatrist at the University of Cincinnati, another at Stanford University, and Charles Nemeroff, then with Emory University — causing much chaos and agitation among researchers — and changes in numerous academic conflict - of - interest policies.

A little - known grant program that supports academic research to help communities adapt to climate change and manage their coastal and lakeshore resources is on the chopping block in the Trump administration's budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Many universities have already acknowledged this problem and have started spending money on programs to recruit both halves of academic couples, a change that Marx - Feree says is one of the most promising shifts in university policy.

But before it ended, Lankford and Paul had warned that change is coming and that the academic research community needs to shape up if it wants to be on the winning side.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

«Drug discovery is inherently risky, but the role of academics and start - ups is to provide game - changing discoveries that are the result of prolonged investigations in basic science, and can ultimately have a significant impact on human and animal health.»

Dr. Navar's original intent on entering college was to become a veterinarian but during his academic studies, he was greatly influenced by famed University of Mississippi physiologist Arthur C. Guyton who was the catalyst for the course change in his scientific career.