It therefore becomes a teaching facility, community center, art gallery and meeting place geared to augment and support
academic life on campus.
The Basics: Porzellaneum If you're missing
the academic life on your summer vacation, why not sleep in an Austrian university dorm?
I promise that you will find love in your work here, if you surrender a bit to
the academic life on Appian Way.»
Not exact matches
For proof of this issue's timelessness, peruse this 1990 article about a famous magazine piece, «Gate Receipts and Glory,» that decried the pernicious effects of moneyed sports
on academic life — in 1938.
«I never wanted to do research
on one thing for the rest of my
life, which tends to be the
academic model,» says the 34 - year - old Lathan.
These commencement addresses touched
on more than
academics, with words that can help to craft a healthier, happier
life.
«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus
on «
academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis
on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in
life.
I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies
living on communes in the country or
academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.
And then I recognized that my
academic language of distancing analysis and explanation also served to obfuscate the clear moral dimensions of
life and the need to choose between right and wrong, and that
on some issues analysis or explanation is itself a form of collusion.
«Most of my classmates just treated all this as an
academic exercise, and they kept
on living as they had before.
Newman wanted his new Catholic university to incorporate the strengths of Oxford, with its
academic rigour and emphasis
on the cultivation of the intellect and its historic religious (albeit by now Protestant)
life.
Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed
on students or young faculty members, those
living in the tensions between the
academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.
This quest requires an internal renewal of theology and philosophy — not merely as
academic disciplines, but as ways of
life — and they need to be brought to bear
on the governing assumptions, the unarticulated ontology of our culture.
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.
The question may be
academic, as we
live in pluralist societies, and governments and nations are rarely able to act purely
on christian ethics.
The modern university's emphasis
on academic specialization and its skepticism about the possibility of discerning moral truth have deprived students of opportunities to pose and ponder
life's biggest questions in the classroom.
And so it was that
academic theology's most recent reflection
on the Christian
life has been so shy of offering guides for experience that it has left the field wide open to the pietism it intended to combat.
Nobody really believes that the effects of radical thought
on mainstream marriage or sexual
life has been altogether positive, and «radical feminism» has been displaced largely (outside the
academic world) with a chastened defense of women's rights (and some appreciation of the dilemma of the resulting birth dearth, lonely single moms, and all that).
I grew up with a missing parent, i was always
on the poor side of
life and never had a lot of «Gifts» that help me in school
academics.
Turner shares a widespread skepticism about whether the evangelical thinkers will make much of an impact
on the large and multifarious worlds of evangelicalism, but of this he is more certain: «That [they have] made, and will continue to make, a substantial mark
on American
academic life seems indisputable, especially in history, philosophy, and, more recently, sociology.
BBC2 has produced «a presenter - led do - cu - mentary series»
on the
life of Muhammad (pbuh) which «draw
on the expertise and comments from the world's leading
academics and commentators
on Islam.»
was the crack my younger economist friend made as we filled yet another box to the brim with the heavy pulpy matter — I guess those guys can
live career-wise
on journal articles, even if I'm sure the
academic's hoard will creep up
on him eventually.
Some might object to this prediction, insisting that there is within our movement a considerable emphasis
on personal spirituality and corporate liturgical
life that should keep the movement from being merely
academic.
For all that, of course, anyone who supposes that an
academic life is chiefly one of leisured reflection and friendly conversation need only read your pages
on teaching at Notre Dame and at Duke to begin to see how intensely politicized is the contemporary university.
On college campuses, where I have spent most of my life, it is not that hard to gin up faculty outrage when administrators are credibly accused of assaults on «academic integrity.&raqu
On college campuses, where I have spent most of my
life, it is not that hard to gin up faculty outrage when administrators are credibly accused of assaults
on «academic integrity.&raqu
on «
academic integrity.»
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common
life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «
academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular
life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common
life and a high premium is placed
on the school being a residential community.
If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group
life and lay training» (with
academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own
on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.
Occurring as it does in the context of a review of one of the most spectacularly successful empirical historical investigations in the whole field of
life of Christ research, it is clear evidence of a tendency of the «new hermeneutic» to blur the distinction between statements possible
on the basis of
academic historical research and statements possible only
on the basis of faith.
The initiative follows
on he heels of another report by Oxford
academics, which last year found that levying a tax
on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000
lives.
SportsInsights offers its members a wealth of betting information,
live betting odds, and original &
academic research
on the sports betting marketplace.
I eat, sleep and breathe UVa, and whether it's sports,
academics, student
life or anything else, if it's got sabres
on it, it's got my attention.
We all want our kids to do well in school and to master certain skills and concepts, but our largely singular focus
on academic achievement has resulted in a lack of attention to other components of a successful
life — the ability to be independent, adaptable, ethical, and engaged critical thinkers.
A singular focus
on academics keeps kids from developing other
life skills critical for success in a global economy: the ability to self - motivate, collaborate, problem - solve, and persevere when the going gets tough.
How they do
on their
academics has an effect
on college which effects job, which effects money, which effects the comfort for the rest of their
life.
Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive
academic program which includes English based
on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and
life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
And no matter how well a child performs
on academic tests, she'll have a hard time in
life if she gets so stressed out she can't think straight.
Instead, our teachers cultivate a
life - long love of learning with an
academic curriculum that is developmentally - appropriate and includes appealing, hands -
on activities.
Although the actual curriculum changes based
on the individual facility, most will include a combination of
academics,
life skills experiences and various therapy modalities, like recreational and experiential options along with the usual group, family and individual therapies.
''... [O] ne of the most awesome websites I've seen in a long time... In addition to being helpful to
academic parents, I see this site being useful in anthropology courses
on human sexuality,
life history, parenting, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary psychology, etc..
She shows us how to shift our focus from the excesses of hyper - parenting and our unhealthy reliance
on our children for status and meaning to a parenting style that focuses
on protective factors known to contribute to both
academic success as well as a sense of purpose, well - being, connection, and meaning in
life.
But new research that suggests breastfeeding can significantly improve
academic achievement later in
life is offering food for thought
on the impact of neonatal nutrition.
With one day to go, we interview the former politician and
academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight
on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of
life in Westminster.
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.&raqu
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our
lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist
on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.&raqu
on achieving very high
academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz
on Facebook called This is Your Digital
Life that was created by an
academic for Global Science Research.
The union leader slammed the state government for failure to pay lecturers all outstanding salaries pointing that both
academic and non
academic staff in the institution have been
living on failed promises under the Yahaya Bello administration.
The fair provides expert counseling
on a one -
on - one basis with representatives from various organizations to help participants identify a pathway to immeasurable opportunities for personal,
academic, and professional advancement to improve their quality of
life,» said Cumbo, who is the council's majority leader.
«There will be no effect or disruption in any way
on the educational experience at SUNY Poly including
academic programs, student services, tuition, scholarships, campus
life, athletics, or facilities,» Liapis said.
The implications are not abstract or
academic, they will have a real and lasting impact
on the
lives of hundreds of thousands of disabled people.
If he were to lose the leadership election he would go immediately I think, but this is a man who spends almost all his time
on policy issues, he has little
life outside politics and has spent all his
life since his teens
on either
academic or political pursuits, I'm sure he would find his own nature militating for him to continue and he would probably see a General Election loss with him as PM as something he had to rectify.
They identified 452 eminent
academic life scientists whose deaths were premature — defined as happening before the scientist entered pre-retirement or took
on a predominantly administrative role — and studied how these demises affected the «vitality (measured by publication rates and funding flows) of the [scientists»] subfields.»