Sentences with phrase «academic culture»

There are many case studies on principals and educational leaders who have transformed academic cultures by putting this practice to work.

We've got teachers who create a rigorous academic culture, focusing on college preparation, whether it's after school or with homework or just in class.

For others, though, factors like academic culture, location or alumni networks may be just as, or even more important than pure finances.

This environment is not good enough to sustain a world - class academic culture.

The German theological world has been far less shaken than the English - speaking world by the changes in academic culture of the last decades: feminism, the hermeneutics of suspicion, the dismissal of truth - claims as disguised assertions of power.

Famously, they were credited with (or accused of) «democratizing» film criticism by wresting it from the murky theorizing, impenetrable prose, pseudo-intellectualizing and unctuous ideologies of academic culture studies.

He came to reject the «inevitably» but nevertheless mistrusts the complacent assumption that Christians can assimilate into academic culture without difficulty.

This necessarily includes fundamental changes in the current academic culture that would allow a revamped definition of postdoc status, the creation of new kinds of positions within the academic setting, and genuine encouragement of alternate career paths.

The general intellectual and academic culture remains at least tacitly anti-Catholic.

, the culmination of a major study of more than eight thousand tenure - track faculty members in the University of California system, argues that they have fewer children because academic culture demotes motherhood.

Scholars who are Christians are trained by the dominant academic culture to keep quiet about their faith as the price of full acceptance in the academic community.

The problem is that the leading practitioners of these voguish arts operate precisely within that same ideology of rationalism which possesses academic culture.

In order to provide the necessary foils to our essentially homogenous academic culture, we must find ways of introducing into the academic world sustained confrontation with persons whose basic life - commitments and institutional contexts — not just their cognitive positions — are decisively different from ours.

It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

Over the coming weeks, Next Wave plans to chronicle academic culture changes and to offer practical advice to postdocs and new faculty members who are interested in beefing up their teaching skills.

Engler understands and would like to see academic culture change to reward more diverse training.

The difference: Success doesn't accept new students after the start of 3rd grade, claiming that its restrictive backfill policy is necessary to build its unique academic culture.

The foregoing classroom examples notwithstanding, Humes observes repeatedly the ways in which pressures of Whitney's overheated academic culture interfere with students» education.

A more difficult but effective approach is to create a strong academic culture that changes students» beliefs and behaviors, convincing them to engage with their schoolwork.

The New Settlement Parent Action Committee undertook a six - month Participatory Action Research project to develop a deeper understanding of how school climate and academic culture lead to student pushout, and to determine the resources schools need to support individual students and successfully build alternative models, transforming schools into respectful, supportive and safe spaces for staff, students and community members.

Jocelyn Kang, a senior at Bravo, credits the overall academic culture and how it permeates all aspects of the school.

Boys have trouble w academic culture: too much sitting still.

Its start - up adviser, Alpha Architect, is a well - capitalized firm with minimalist needs, a research - oriented academic culture, and passionate leadership.

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.

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 worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind, trained to careful thinking, instructed in the methods of philosophic investigation, acquainted in a general way with the accumulated thought of past generations, and penetrated with humility.

Many of us recognise problems in the current academic culture, and let me remind you that we are the next generation of academics, and we have the possibility to reshape this culture.

Only a relative handful of charter operators nationally are attempting to deliver a classical liberal arts curriculum amid a rigorous academic culture, combined with a full athletic and co-curricular program.

The sad reality is that anti-Western, anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Israeli biases infuse the academic culture of many evangelical Christian college campuses.

Her challenge is to academic culture; a more pertinent challenge for most of us is the technological impact of sciences.

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.

In the United States they are usually schools of religious bodies that have not, or at least not long, understood themselves as part of the mainstream of American and academic culture.

The leading institutions — Johns Hopkins, Yale, California (Berkeley), Michigan, Harvard, Princeton and Chicago — set the pace, initiating an academic culture that is with us still.

I only recently discovered his pungent essays on religion, French literature, Chinese culture, and academic life, collected in The Hall of Uselessness, also published under his pseudonym, perhaps because he felt his literary alter ego provide him with a certain freedom from the confining pieties of academic culture.

However, when it comes to killing newborns, our academic culture thinks it a topic worthy of discussion and debate.

This is not to say that our academic culture fails in every respect.

Let's take for example, every university is established to promote excellence as excellence comes with hard work, diligence, academic culture, decency, probity and accountability and if these things were lacking before I came, I have ensured that we go back to academic culture where we have respect for one another, academic culture where we are honest, academic culture where students are mannered.

After making it through graduate school, Conry was surprised to find that the maze of requirements and expectations permeating the academic culture didn't end.

The program is an excellent ongoing opportunity to encourage an academic culture that values public engagement.