Sentences with phrase «academic concerns of»

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Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.

That this «group of academics, former policymakers, and investor advocates» are alarmed enough to send a letter to White now should be a concern to all of us.

While journalists and academics propose Facebook make direct attempts at curbing the spread of false headlines, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg are concerned about the influence of the company, which has nearly two billion users.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

Institutional shareholders are closely aligned with the proxy firms; law firms make their bread and butter from corporate management, while issuers and academics have concerns about many aspects of the process.

The Forum, a group of corporate CEOs and university presidents, identified and acted on issues of national concern to the business and academic communities such as international competitiveness, technological innovation, and education and training.

The purpose of this paper is to educate industry leaders, lawyers, policymakers, academics, and the general public on the characteristics, use - cases, and regulatory concerns of ICOs.

Many employers are reluctant to suggest higher default contribution rates due to a concern that their workers might blindly accept what is not in their best interest, or that they might get intimidated and opt out of the plan altogether,» says Dr. Shlomo Benartzi, senior academic advisor to the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation.

It's been a topic of concern within the academic and political arenas, with numerous policy attempts at easing the financial burden for students and the nation's economy.

It's worth considering how closely — or not — academic notions of volatility mirror your own concerns as an investor.

To address these concerns, an impressive list of economists and academics have come together to launch Saga, a reserve - backed cryptocurrency that aims to eliminate volatility.

«The University is concerned, amongst other things, about any issues which may arise from any commercial use» of the personality data and models, which the director said were strictly for academic use.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

We have placed an ambitious and expensive program at the heart of theological education at the same time that a concern for proving a solid academic preparation has led the faculty to stress a core curriculum.

But when the subject of civil religion became a minor academic industry, I became increasingly concerned, as conferences, panels and symposia on the subject proliferated, that the whole issue was bogging down into arguments over definition and that substance was being overlooked.

To insist on the priority of the intellect over the will is not to reduce faith to a purely academic or intellectual concern.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited largely to people concerned about the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East, or to friends of Israel who want to understand their enemy.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

Added to these worries are the perennial complaints of bishops, denominational executives and prominent pastors that faculty live in academic ivory towers, preoccupied with guild concerns and insulated or even alienated from church life.

Because of the remoteness of the academic discussion from the pressing concerns within the church, the church has in fact looked elsewhere for solutions to its problems.

Overall, while dealing with primarily academic concerns, this is a helpful introductory guide to some of the exegetical, theological, contextual, and interpretive issues surrounding the letters of Paul.

It «will be concerned principally to provide arguments that all reasonable persons, whether religiously involved or not, can recognize as reasonable» Its ethical stance is that of «honest, critical inquiry proper to Its academic setting.»

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The students themselves may be ignored in favor of the academic objectives of the institution which is not concerned with them as whole persons.

It seems to me that, so far as public policy is concerned, some version of pragmatic pluralism is indeed the only live academic option.

Especially offensive, it seems, are traditional Christian versions of such teachings, other than those Christian ethical teachings, such as special concern for the poor, that are already widely shared in the academic culture.

Abingdon has opened a new office in Atlanta, specifically for editing academic books; Westminster / John Knox has affirmed its interest in serious theological publishing; and Augsburg Fortress has sought to reassure those concerned about the future of the Fortress tradition.

I am concerned, however, that the process of secularization that removed the Methodist universities and, before them, most of the Ivy League schools from the ranks of Christian academic institutions is now setting in at Notre Dame.

The Catholic university today must be a university in the full modern sense of the word, with a strong commitment to and concern for academic excellence.

The comparative study of religions has never been merely an academic concern for the great Hindu scholar to whose philosophy this volume is dedicated.

Thus the problem of nature and purpose is not merely an academic one; it flows from our deepest and most personal concerns as to whether we really belong to the universe, or rather must awaken to our utter solitude, our «fundamental isolation.

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

Are these enquiries destined to be merely band - aid measures, established so that governments of the day can be seen to be doing something and as an opportunity for concerned community groups, professionals and academics to let off some steam?

Our editorial, supported by contributions from several eminent academics, highlights the ongoing Cartesian insularity of Catholic thought concerning the 17th century's leap forward in the investigation into the natural world, which we call the scientific revolution.

For the academic world, it reawakens deep concerns over a fragile arrangement between faculty and administrations with its fatiguing but constant need to review conditions of academic governance and authority.

Indeed, many of the contemporary activists and academics most concerned about the marginalization of religion in American public life frame their critiques as issues of free exercise and not establishment.

However, what concerns us particularly is the fact that the basic unclarity of the discipline of the history of religions has created confusion regarding the place of the history of religions in the academic curriculum in this country.

She is concerned that the use of an internet blog (that of the Knights ofColumbus) to discuss a high - level academic controversy could easily cause harm to West's good name and fruitful work.

I want here to sketch out how this growing concern might be deepened and, especially, how Jews and Christians — the biblical people of God — can contribute to its deepening and its potential for beneficent change in academic culture.

The relationship between theological liberalism and cultural optimism is, however, by now an old, old story, so let us leave the external historical circumstances and return to more purely academic and theological considerations, of which the next to concern us is the rise of form criticism in the 1920s.

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.

The president also noted: «Because concerns have been raised about many aspects of this complex situation — including concerns related to academic freedom, due process, the leaking of confidential information, possible violations of faculty governance, and gender and racial discrimination — I have asked the Board of Trustees to conduct a thorough review.

Conference members represent the many facets of the dairy industry, including the dairy farmer, processing plant personnel, people who inspect dairy farm operations and / or the processing plants, people who make and / or enforce the laws concerning the inspections, academic researchers and advisers and consumers of dairy products.

BOWLS AND EXAMS Sir: As the athletic academic counselor at the University of Missouri, I, too, was concerned about our football team's accepting a bid to play in a bowl game — the Tangerine — whose date conflicted with our final - exam week (SCORECARD, Dec. 21).

The question is an academic one as far as Fabio Capello is concerned, because Rooney is banned from England's next competitive games and therefore unlikely to feature in any of the preceding friendlies, yet one would doubt very much that the Italian left Old Trafford on Wednesday pondering whether to leave out Scott Parker or Gareth Barry to accommodate Rooney when he next becomes available, or thrilled at the prospect of giving Darren Bent or Jermain Defoe a clear run up front instead.

And colleges and universities spend time and money running seminars led by academics and mental health workers that cater to the concerns and preoccupations of anxious parents as they leave their children in the hands of strangers.