Academic departments refer to specific areas or subjects of study within a school, college, or university. They are divisions that focus on teaching and researching a particular field, such as English, history, math, or science. Each department usually has its own faculty members who specialize in that subject and offer courses related to it.
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This situation has become realized
in academic departments where educational technology is located in educational psychology in one school, and educational leadership, teacher education, or in its own department in another.
Control of curriculum and program development shifted to an interdisciplinary team of teachers and
academic department heads.
For instance, if your career fair is going to include graduate students, then your task is relatively simple: You target
academic departments at your institution or at surrounding universities.
I have students from seven
different academic departments in my group, from physics, applied physics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and material science.
However, this very development has
allowed academic departments to treat law more as an intellectual discipline than a subject of practical application.
These four areas will be placed on top of the school's six
core academic departments: finance, accounting, marketing, strategy, organizational behavior, and managerial economics and decision sciences.
It is my sincere hope that other associations, serious about dealing with the lack of diversity
in academic departments, will follow its lead.
He served as president of the Association of Professors of Medicine, the leading society for chairpersons
of academic departments of medicine in the United States, and is a past president of the 13,000 - member American Thoracic Society, the premier subspecialty organization for those in the field of respiratory medicine, critical care, and sleep - disordered breathing.
The Ph.D. in Education, a joint degree offered in collaboration with Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, replaced the Ed.D. to better signal the research emphasis that has characterized the program since its inception in 1921, and to strengthen ties
with academic departments across Harvard University.
In fact,
within academic departments women of different social or professional «ranks» cooperate with each other less well than men do, according to Joyce Benenson, an Associate of Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology Department and Professor of Psychology at Emmanuel College, Richard Wrangham, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Henry Markovits, from the University of Quebec at Montreal, the study's co-authors.
Bringing together faculty
from academic departments across the university, we create programs and solutions that expand and encourage new thinking and capabilities, and build and embed institutional knowledge to enable executives to address real - world situations as well as future scenarios.
The Ph.D. in Education, a joint degree offered in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, replaced the Ed.D. degree to better signal the research emphasis that has characterized the program since its inception in 1921, and to strengthen ties with
academic departments across Harvard University.
Brian checked with other
academic departments on campus and discovered that he could get a degree in sociology on schedule.
It's common
for academic departments to use confidential student reviews in promotion decisions, and at some campuses students for years have produced booklets of edited reviews to help peers choose classes.
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli has sponsored about fifty lecturers from
various academic departments to workshops and seminars overseas.
Start - up grants were also available for the 15 young faculty members I recruited as I built two
new academic departments at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.
... Our analysis thus documents a key benefit of high - skilled immigration in the US, which relies on innovation for growth and helps to explain the vociferous complaints by
US academic departments about visa restrictions on foreign graduate students.
Reed is a member of President George W. Bush's Information Technology Advisory Committee, charged with providing advice on information technology issues and challenges to the president, a member of the Biomedical Informatics Expert Panel for the National Institute of Health's National Center for Research Resources and on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association, which represents the interests of the
major academic departments and industrial research laboratories.
St Albans School is pleased to be a partner school of the London Academic of Excellence Tottenham, providing support to
particular academic departments (Biology, Chemistry and D&T), hosting reciprocal school visits and providing staff to attend LAET for open days / evenings and careers talks.
Study procedures were approved by local commissions on child protection in Bucharest, the Romanian ministry of health, and later an ethics committee including appointees from government and Bucharest
University academic departments.
Developing the academic program was an equally important priority, as a high school principal and four
academic department chairpersons spent a full year making plans and hiring teachers in anticipation of the September 1957 opening of Niskayuna High School.
The successful candidate will hold an appointment in one or
more academic department that participates in the IGPMS, and is expected to develop an internationally recognized research program, mentor graduate and undergraduate students in the candidate's area of expertise, and teach both graduate and undergraduate courses.
Thus there were two quite distinct styles of religious instruction on the campuses: disinterested, non-normative studies, conducted in a
regular academic department, and ministerial studies based on an assumption of shared commitment, in marginal divinity schools.
Sometimes those researchers don't fit well into discipline -
based academic departments, which can lead to feelings of isolation and aimlessness.
Pearson said that
academic departments often look for «cutting edge» specialties, which eliminates many scientists — often minorities — who are not at elite schools.
When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into
traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.
Entire academic departments and corporations have been funded by the U.S. government to ponder potential dangers and tell scientists what to do.
Inside, I found an office and one well - appointed laboratory, the entire company being sandwiched between
several academic departments of the local university.
There are also some advantages to the Chinese approach to research, says Evans, noting that his research department is more in tune than most
Western academic departments with scientific entrepreneurship.
«Yet,» Afonso writes, «gangs have no real difficulty in recruiting new members» — and neither
do academic departments.
The budget cuts will be accompanied by the dissolution, on 1 January, of the 120 - year - old institution's
classical academic departments — zoology, botany, geology and anthropology — and by the shuffling of member scientists into a new, leaner organization, broadly titled Science and Education.
With more than 30 tenured and tenure - track faculty members and lecturers, UMBC's Department of Biological Sciences is one of the university's
largest academic departments encompassing a wide breadth of research and teaching.
As inaugural director of the Transplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty from
multiple academic departments to grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid organ transplantation.
For example, bell schedules, grading policies,
academic department structures, fixed sense of course scope and sequence, and familiarity with whole - group instruction may all be exerting the tug of status quo bias.
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