Sentences with phrase «academic purpose of»

«I was excited when I was meeting members of the faculty, staff, and administration, and I look forward to becoming a colleague of theirs and helping them drive the core academic purpose of the school to higher levels of excellence.»

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Ivy League sociology professor and provost Robert Nisbet's 1971 The Degradation of the Academic Dogma recounted how huge government grants since World War II were degrading universities» purpose of knowledge, scholarship, and reason in favor of self - serving pursuits of creating centers and institutes.

Neither this article nor that post are investment recommendations but, rather, an academic overview meant to help you understand the structure, purpose, and benefits of holding companies in certain specific contexts.

The app claimed to be collecting data for academic research, and users were not aware of its true purpose.

Chen said the purpose of the course is not to defy or challenge academic conventions but to focus on the implications and problems in the rapidly developing gaming industry in China.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

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.

One major feature that would distinguish the business practices of Amazon's «streaming data marketplace» from those of actors such as Facebook: The social media giant, while admitting that it has allowed direct access to user data for academic purposes, claims to prohibit the sale of these data «to any ad network, data broker or other advertising or monetization - related service.»

The purpose of this program is to provide academic institutions Micro Focus training materials for inclusion into their academic curricula and for internal staff development.

The report's purpose is to provide information and encourage dialogue; it is an academic and not an advocacy document, and it sets out to offer a straightforward and honest assessment of how often sensitive issues are framed and discussed.

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.

Intended to provide an overview of the state of the academic discipline known as Christian ethics, this book achieves its purpose with essays by eighteen veterans of that enterprise.

I describe it as inviting anarchy (no leaders) and chaos (the yawning chasm and gap which contains our arbitrary random - to - order ratios) into the classroom: in complementary contrast to the purpose - drive of the academic environment in which we swim, so to speak, our Alma Matrix.

One might be described as academic or, better, scholarly, in purpose: that is to say, offering up» to» date information and guidance on the state of knowledge and opinion among specialists in the field.

A true pastor - teacher is one who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other people.

Neither traditional liberal arts nor most of the new academic disciplines turn out to be very useful for this purpose.

Certain direct evidence of this sense of context is given in those academic statements of purpose to which reference has been made.

Taking the congregation this seriously, Hopewell has discovered, results in a radical reordering of academic goals and purposes.

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.

The considerable effort required to fit a myth to the cultural data of a congregation is best undertaken for the good of the church itself, not for one's private entertainment or academic purposes.

The prevailing ethos of schools with this heritage is profoundly shaped by the conviction that they are constituted as communities by academic purposes and not, as church communities are, by doxological purposes.

As the founding document of Union shows, such a school would quite deliberately be set in the midst of a major metropolitan center on the grounds that this environment was necessary to, rather than a distraction from, its proper academic purposes.

If Christians are to contribute prophetically to the struggle for new meaning and purpose in academic life, they must attend with quickened imagination to «the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.»

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

Thus possessed of their identity, knowing themselves to be in but definitely not of the academy, these biblical people might then become one community of ongoing spiritual energy and moral insight for all those who are working to expose the academy's covert operative values and searching for new academic purpose.

By creating a school environment that integrates academic, artistic and practical disciplines, the Austin Waldorf School cultivates a love of learning, creative thinking, a sympathetic interest in the world, self - confidence, and an abiding moral purpose.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Through a rich curriculum integrating the academic, artistic, and practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton guides children toward self - knowledge, to meet the world by awakening within them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

Through a rich curriculum that integrates the academic, artistic and practical, Prairie Moon Waldorf School fosters the development of self - knowledge and helps children to engage fully in the world by awakening in them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

Our program from early childhood through high school integrates academic, artistic, and practical work to awaken clarity of thought, warmth of heart, and strength of purpose.

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.

After all the deals were made, the original lofty purposes of the synergy between academic institutions and entrepreneurial activity were transformed, and a broader grab bag emerged.

In her response, the best student in HND Chemistry, Ogundijo Kehinde Oluwabukola, who is spoke on behalf of her colleagues thanked the management of the institution for their support during their academic surjon as she prayed to God to give her and her colleagues to fulfill the purpose of their existence.

«It goes without saying that the purpose of academic institutions is research, teaching, and rendering services to the community.

,» that would restore its oversight of SUNY contracts and require «that SUNY's use of any non-profit corporation be for academic objects or purposes only,» among other reforms.

The legislation, which Simanowitz and Felder hope will be adopted before the end of the Legislature's session in June, would require that hospitals and morgues obtain permission from the next of kin before they hand over a body for academic purposes.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

The weekly Common Purpose meeting shares some aspects with Grover Norquist's long - running Wednesday Meeting of conservative activists, but is more focused on messaging day - to - day politics and doesn't include journalists and academics, people involved said.

Following the legislation, the SED also put in place a «Parents Bill of Rights,» allowing parents to review their children's academic records and affirm that their children's information is protected by federal and state law and would not be sold or used for commercial purposes.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic working with Cambridge Analytica, allegedly violated Facebook's terms of use by saying the data would be used for academic purposes, not political purposes.

The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.

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Given that many PhD students are disillusioned by the prospect of following an academic career, according to earlier surveys, it is perhaps reassuring that only 6 % of the supervisors questioned are unreconstructed enough to believe that the purpose of a PhD is training solely for a career in academic research.

But about 5 months later, the decision was reversed on the grounds that, in the eyes of the Spanish system, McBride did not hold a master's degree or a Ph.D. «The forwarded documentation,» said the official rejection letter, «has not gone through any of the two legal processes, neither of homologation nor of recognition, for the mentioned title to be valid in Spain, neither for academic nor for professional purposes.»

David Pearce of University College London, another contributor to the IPCC report, stressed that the purpose of the economic studies was purely academic, and not to provide a prescription for what policies governments should adopt in response to global warming.

The purpose of Jakob Nielsen's Usability Engineering (Academic Press, pp 358, # 29.25) is to help nontechnical people improve the systems so that they are not only error - free but also easier and more pleasant to use, and more efficient.

The purpose of the programme is to provide some guidelines on successful routes for turning academic ideas into a product and taking it onto the market.

Under the agreement, the universities will consider an exchange of academic staff, including Bachelor (Honours), Master, and Doctoral research students, for the purpose of joint research and teaching.

Since 1995, Dr. Maharaj has been applying his academic experience and performing evidence - based chemotherapy treatment and bone marrow stem cell transplant procedures on a completely outpatient setting, with the main purpose of improving patients» safety by minimizing the risks of mortality associated with hospital - acquired infections and, ultimately, improving quality of life.