Sentences with phrase «academic issues at»

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While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

But it's worth taking a long, hard look at academia's daddy issues — to examine the simple structural bit of skeevyness at the heart of any academic's ability (or inability) to form a scholarly identity and relate to others.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

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.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.

The IRPP released a report today on the decline of economics papers by Canadian academics looking at Canadian issues.

Even in my home state of Michigan, the campus Muslim Center and its director, an academic on the faculty at the University, were not willing to have me survey them on even such a non controversial issue as consumption behavior.

Although what he writes is open and unapologetic «heresy», at least Jack Mahoney has highlighted the fact that the question of science and religion is not some purely academic issue revolving around a few specialised philosophical and theological discussions.

Although this is academic theology at full - throttle, it is important to bear in mind this is an issue which can provoke strong reactions in the pews.

In the May 2007 issue of the University of California Press journal, Social Problems, the sociologists Elaine Ecklund (University at Buffalo) and Christopher Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University) have presented their findings on «Religion among Academic Scientists.»

[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament studies has shown its sensitivity to various theories emerging from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing from such theories.

At the heart of the issue, as ever, is the question of the objective existence of God and that is no mere academic issue.

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 latest in an ongoing scandal at UNC that's included dozens of revelations, McCants» comments detail the «paper - class» system often used by student - athletes at the school, his own academic issues and apparent knowledge of the situation by legendary head coach Roy Williams.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

If there's a behavior or academic issue, approach it by coming alongside her, rather than at her with unwanted suggestions or demands.

It's a set of skills that helps you and your family handle conflicts, behavior issues, academic concerns, peer issues, family disruption, mental health diagnoses, parenting shame, and everything else thrown at your family in a way that keeps you connected and healthy together.

Sometimes when a child is having a difficult time at school either due to academic demands or perhaps bigger issues like bullying, they may mask those problems by putting up a fuss about going to school.

Without appropriate support, stressed out teens may be at a higher risk for mental health problems, academic problems, and health issues.

She also has an academic appointment in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, where she studies the interplay between social and biological issues in human lactation.

The Corporation carried out a charm offensive of its own, sponsoring meetings and dinners at each of the annual party conferences and commissioning and publishing a series of heavyweight academic studies of issues facing London as a global financial capital.

In a lecture, 21st Century Surveillance State: Implications of the Snowden Revelations, at the University of Oxford this week, Rusbridger told his audience it was time to move the debate into an academic arena, where its complex issues could be analysed in greater depth.

Also, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, LASU and member of Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Momoh was prominent for his doggedness in maintaining high level integrity and professionalism, and selfless defence of staff and students» welfares, as well as strictly adherence to ethical standard on addressing issues that affected staff and students.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

(The six exceptions may be academics studying the issue; campaign officers at Fawcett; or selections officials at Labour HQ).

In a document titled: «Strike Bulletin No. 1», which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation's universities.

Agree the basic principles of a workable system based on academic excellence and social justice, possibly with pupil choice at 14, and at least both parties could demonstrate that Irish and British people who call this region home can agree on important issues.

A Scottish Labour MSP has withdrawn her invitation to speak at the Holyrood parliament from an academic who has linked abortion to mental health issues after fellow MSPs raised concerns about the event.

Academic Integrity Task Force: After new allegations of issues with academic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standardsAcademic Integrity Task Force: After new allegations of issues with academic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standardsacademic integrity at certain schools, NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña is establishing a permanent task force that provides oversight and training to ensure all schools comply with «rigorous policies and standards.»

Because that bad mentorship - bad project - toxic lab - dwindling funding issue - thing can crop up at any time in someone's academic experience.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

«I was lucky coming from a lab [at Michigan] that didn't have financing issues,» Conley says, but she knows that securing adequate funding is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge in many academic labs.

Eve A. Riskin, a professor of electrical engineering and director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington, said that married academics might choose to wait until the end of the interview process before mentioning a spousal hiring issue.

«I know personally dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.

Identifying and Evaluating Hazards in Research Laboratories, the new ACS report issued in September at the organization's national meeting in Indianapolis, is the society's response to a request the U.S. Chemical Safety Board made in its landmark 2011 report on academic lab safety.

There are several viable options, so you don't have to only look at industry; not all academic postdoc positions are fraught with the same issues that you have experienced.

The research was undertaken by the University College London Energy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income countries.

On the national scene, meanwhile, despite remedial steps at UCLA and some other universities and attention to the issue in scientific meetings and publications, the toll of academic lab accidents mounts.

Take health issues: In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a chair of an academic department estimated that in a group of 50 professors and five office staff, serious illness affects at least three or four of them — in addition to close friends and relatives — during a given month.

She spoke to Next Wave from her wet lab at the Dutch company Philips about a range of issues, including the careful treatment of diamond, academic and industrial research, and luxury.

At a recent conference in Melbourne, Texas academic Sandy Stone issued this stern warning: «If you have sex in cyberspace, be sure to use a modem!»

The charges, apparently the first to be brought in an academic safety incident, raise the widely neglected issue of safety standards at university labs.

«Behavior issues in early elementary school have long - term implications, so early intervention is needed to support children at risk for academic problems,» said Sandee McClowry, the study's senior author and a professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt.

Wendy Ingram, who co-founded a well - being and mental health peer support network when she was a graduate student at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, after a dear friend in her program died by suicide due to depression, agrees that «more academic institutions are taking steps to tackle mental health issues,» she writes in an email to Science Careers.

«The survey shows that sequestration is already eroding America's research capabilities at universities across the country,» according to a statement issued by the two organizations and by The Science Coalition, which lobbies for academic research.

The issue was not simply academic: As explorers fanned out across the world, it became crucial for navigators to determine their precise location at sea.

The documents put hard numbers on what until now have been somewhat fuzzy academic discussions and make clear that although testing and production are moving forward at record speed, knotty issues still remain.

«Before it became clear that the technical issues could be addressed, these were academic exercises,» says Peter Stone, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin.

We provide initial insights into two critical issues: what clinical value can be extracted from different commercial and academic cancer genomic platforms, and how to think about scaling access to that value,» noted the study's Principal Investigator, Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University and Founding Director of the New York Genome Center.