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A recent academic paper found that a 10 % decrease in house prices is associated with a 29 % drop in divorce rates among college educated couples.

At the UNO College of Business Administration (CBA), we are preparing students to become professionals with academic acumen and a sense of social responsibility.

i His writing and his work with Impact Investing draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, Waldorf teacher and co-founder of three social enterprises: 1) From 28 - 34 a farm based campus for young people who wanted a college experience without intellectual academics; 2) from 43 - 46 a biological healthcare company and 3) from 46 - present a workflow technology firm focused on personalizing healthcare.

And these are questions I ask many of the academics I'm talking with, and I think we'll see universities, colleges and education very positively affected by these technologies, because I think we can educate students around the world.

Many colleges and universities open the new academic year with a special assembly or convocation that is generally an upbeat occasion of welcome and new beginnings.

Yes, his appointment as a Fellow of Oriel College at Oxford gave clear testimony to his academic brilliance, a verdict of his peers that he vindicated with such scholarly publications as Lectures on Justification and The Arians of the Fourth Century.

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.

«We still need good theology... so we do need good theological colleges with well - trained, committed faculty members, able to publish and supervise higher research; where academic rigour is maintained and we continue to discern how God's word in the Bible speaks today.

The thing was with the college was more of the academic rigour and making an argument for an approach being consistent with the Christian faith more than whatever choice was made about that.

To date, four Christian academic institutions have expressed interest in partnering with GRACE to make The National GRACE Center a reality (Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida; Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia; Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois; and Biblical Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

But as time went on it wasn't clear why such a college should prefer a Reformed, even a Protestant or Christian, faculty if all upstanding Americans with equal academic training could contribute to an equally acceptable moral and societal end.

The difficulties with «strongly religious» colleges even today, much less between 1870 and 1920, are sometimes buried in Marsden's notes, as when he admits that academic due process is often absent from such schools and «dictatorial rule is particularly common.»

Because of our solid commitment to the Bible, we have a strong commitment to our academic line as we partner with seminaries, colleges and universities to provide the best resources to train and prepare pastors and other Christian leaders.

Academic freedom is frequently inhibited at Catholic universities and colleges — public agencies that often are federal contractors — with consequent injustice to the students and to the taxpayers.

Theological schools with this sort of ethos have tended to be especially comfortable associating with or being an organic part of other types of academic communities such as undergraduate colleges, graduate centers, and universities.

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.

The department partners with vendors and various other university departments including academic colleges, athletics and student affairs when it adopts new technology or introduces new dining concepts.

Indeed, as the NCAA moves to strengthen its academic standards, perhaps it also should end its hypocritical understanding with the NFL, by which players aren't eligible to be drafted until their college class graduates.

City College's football team isn't up to par with their academic performance this year, and it wasn't the toughest win, but it's an important one given the Mighty Ducks» new classification.

After the notoriety the COF gained from this, more than 1,000 readers chimed in on Reddit posts questioning whether College of Faith schools were «diploma mills» with subpar academic standards preying on deluded athletes.

Some are just restless, and uncertain, sampling a semester at junior college and a semester at tribal school, academic refugees with no final destination in mind.

«I still have aspirations to play beyond college, but I was looking for a good fit with academics and athletics.»

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

In other words, college education and academic integrity still matter in assessing how colleges could compete with one another in offering athletic scholarships.

Once most of the high schools are done with their academic year, colleges will host prospects for camps where players will come and sometimes overnight at a school, staying in the dorms and running through drills overseen by a coaching staff.

The «everybody does it» sentiment is so widely held when it comes to academic fraud and big - time college athletics that it's almost impossible for any individual instance to shock or even register with the national public anymore.

Academic Camp: For the rising Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors offers an opportunity to work with over 15 college coaches from top academic and DIII Academic Camp: For the rising Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors offers an opportunity to work with over 15 college coaches from top academic and DIII academic and DIII schools.

The press are not solely to blame for this, however; Seamus Kelly, a former professional with Cardiff City and now an academic at University College Dublin, argues that pushy parents are also «a big problem, putting pressure on their «meal ticket» to money / stardom».

She started with some universally acknowledged positive academic outcomes for students: getting good grades, graduating from high school, and earning a college degree.

With funding from a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, I traveled to different parts of the U.S. to interview Asian American students, parents, college counselors, social workers, psychiatrists and academic experts.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

The College of Teachers, together with the faculty, sets and carries out important policy directions affecting the school's educational programs, academic standards, and curriculum development.

The Department will work with appropriate constituencies within the College to insure the proper balance of athletic and academic interests.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Thinking the Twentieth Century is a dense but invigorating tome, suggestive at times of a college academic bowl, replete with references to picayune events, facts, statistics, and thinkers off the historical map of even the most polymathic intellectual.

Tuition would rise and security would be strengthened at Niagara County Community College under a tentative budget for the next academic year, which includes $ 250,000 for two armed peace officers and a contract with a local police agency to supply a regular police officer to patrol during the day.

Enck, who left the EPA during the first days of the Trump administration, is working with scientists and academics at nearby Bennington College, which is conducting the study.

I think it's a unique idea, it could work, but my concern would be that there would be a separation of the college completely with an economic role over here, and academics separate from it.»

In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly,» Gibson wrote in his announcement.

Beyond his academic credentials, he has a wealth of experience in urban economics thanks to his stints with the college's Center for Entrepreneurship and the Office of Urban Initiatives.

If it is indeed so that the two - party system delivers more representation to the wealthier and since wealth correlates to better academic qualifications, we can expect more American politicians with a college degree, for example.

The Mahama administration scrapped the payment of the allowances in the 2013/2014 academic year and replaced it with loans from the SLTF, arguing that it would increase enrolment in the various colleges of education and reduce the financial burden on the government.

The mentors — successful professionals who themselves are HFCS graduates — will help ease the academic and social transition from high school to college for our graduates beginning with the Class of 2015.

Such businesses would seem unlikely to qualify for Start - Up NY, whose benefits are limited to new or expanding firms whose activities «support the academic mission of the college or university with which they hope to work.»

Monroe Community College is working with the program to offer one on one academic counseling to graduates.

According to its website, Speakers4Schools provides state secondary schools and colleges with talks from a range of industry leading professionals, public figures and academics, free of charge:

Nassau Community College found its sixth president in W. Hubert Keen, outgoing president of Farmingdale State College, a tested academic with 40 years of experience in higher education.

Provost, College of Health Sciences, Heads of Departments / Units, to resume full academic activities with immediate effect».

In 2016, the charity celebrated its 150th birthday with activities including an international academic conference at Keble College, Oxford, an exhibition in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and a Prison Diaries project, which involved people keeping diaries in prisons across the United Kingdom.