Sentences with phrase «academic societies in»

This meeting brought together women members of academic societies in religion to initiate the Women's Caucus: Religious Studies.

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There has been academic research that speaks to the value of gossip in our society.

A 2014 article published in the academic journal Medical Forces & Society concluded that transgender service members were as deployable and medically ready as their cisgender peers, with few exceptions.

Sherry received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

Weaver received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, the Commerce Undergraduate Society Award for Outstanding Teaching & Learning, Haskayne School of Business in 2002 and 2000, and the Superior Service Award, Academic Staff, Haskayne School of Business in 2001.

The history of how societies have dealt politically with their debt overhead throughout history needs to be highlighted in the public consciousness and placed at the heart of the academic curriculum and media discussion.

This government has consistently touted the Investor Court System in CETA as a progressive alternative to ISDS, but both academics and civl society activists have noted that it does little to address the problems with ISDS.

Along with his professional and academic commitments, Mr. Wang is also involved in the Cooper Union Entrepreneur Society, which will be hosting its second Cooper Union Startup Challenge on May 21st 6 - 9 pm in the Rose Auditorium.

That the Marxist Left should argue theoretically and act practically from the standpoint of the most advanced productive forces in their society, that they should develop in depth all the liberating factors immanent in these forces and use them strategically, is no academic expectation but a political necessity.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

The question may be academic, as we live in pluralist societies, and governments and nations are rarely able to act purely on christian ethics.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

While religious perspectives have nothing to do with the technical content of a lecture, they are relevant to a number of aspects of the academic situation.1 Where appropriate to the objectives of the course and closely connected with the subject matter, some of the questions which we have raised about the effects of an invention on society or the ethical dilemmas faced by the scientist can legitimately be mentioned in the classroom.

In democratic society it values every individual and maintains academic freedom; in genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadershiIn democratic society it values every individual and maintains academic freedom; in genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadershiin genuinely aristocratic society it seeks to cherish and nurture the excellent persons and to maintain their leadership.

Standing explicitly between academy, church and society, those in pastoral theology know intimately the limits of academic exercises, and they know the limits of knowledge apart from context.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

The control of the written word by aristocrats, clergy; academics, and politicians skews our understanding of culture and history in the West — a history portrayed by those in control of society.

This was not an exercise in academic theology, but a case of theologians addressing themselves to the worldly fact that religious beliefs had not kept pace with the radical transformation of society by science and the rest of modern culture.

We became friends and colleagues in the mid-1980s, and I discovered that, in addition to his insight into society and its dynamics, Peter Berger was one of the funniest men alive, a walking encyclopedia of jokes who used his native Viennese wit to both sharpen conversations and deflect silly conflicts between overinflated academic egos.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

Christopher Jencks and David Riesman in The Academic Revolution (Doubleday, 1968) argue that the meritocratic world view is the basic determinant of academic life and «an inevitable feature of highly organized societies with a very specialized division of laborAcademic Revolution (Doubleday, 1968) argue that the meritocratic world view is the basic determinant of academic life and «an inevitable feature of highly organized societies with a very specialized division of laboracademic life and «an inevitable feature of highly organized societies with a very specialized division of labor.»

The CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

One of the main reasons you don't see many or any «English Asians» in football is, culturally for them it is frowned upon to aspire to careers in sport (save cricket or tennis) over academic careers, which they perceive as being more stable, lucrative and hold more prestige in society.

Participation in these programs and services improve the lives of our members as it teaches them the skills they need to achieve academic and professional success and also how to become confident, healthy and contributing members of society.

I became President of National Honor Society to instill passion in others about promoting academic service, but was disappointed to find the main interest of the members was to just sign in and leave for the attendance credit.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolIn fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schoolin schools.

In 1985, he earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, where he received numerous academic honors, including selection to the national medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha.

On June 13, 2007, The Family Online Safety Institute, along with Telmex and Family & Society, will bring together leaders in government, the online industry, academics and non-profit organizations in the search for a solution to online safety for all Internet users in Mexico.

At the same luncheon, Rodolfo Dirzo, the Bing Professor in Environmental Science, will receive the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, which recognizes Stanford faculty who engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service to society.

I favoured teaching topics Little Miss Green was interested in (nature, animals, society) and covering all the academic subjects under those topics.

Therefore, the target audience includes national and local public health policy - makers, implementers and managers of maternal and child health programmes, health care facility managers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal and child health services, health care professionals (including nurses, midwives, general medical practitioners and obstetricians) and academic staff involved in training health care professionals.

In a statement copied to Ghanapoliticsonline.com Mrs Mogtari said the academic credentials of the learned Professor, her contributions to society and her work as Minister for Education can obviously be fact - checked and therefore, «why Hon. Opoku Prempeh will think and even want to describe as her as an embarrassment and one who does not understand education is simply mind boggling!

Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.

Organised by a coalition of academics and civil society organisations under the banner Democracy Matters, Assembly North and Assembly South represent significant interventions in contemporary British politics.

He aims to inform the public, liaise with other members of the academic community, work with civil society actors engaged in arms control and partner with governments to discuss the moral issues introduced by new technology and collaborate on design proposals.

By working in partnership with retail organisations we will see benefits for academic research, the sector itself and ultimately for society at large.»

Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann, the renowned Science and Maths Quiz mistress, will be awarded The 2018 Golden Torch Award for International Academic Leadership at the 44th Annual National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Conference on Saturday March 24th in Pittsburgh, USA.

«To be successful in today's society, children's learning needs to go beyond academics and include acquiring the social and emotional skills to have successful relationships, understand and work through emotions, and make good life choices.»

They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the review involve the whole academic community The process was overseen by a Steering Group composed of prominent UK academics, users of Human Geography research and funders.

Laura Stefan, the anti corruption coordinator for the Romanian Academic Society, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and business man Strive Masiyiwa take part in a panel discussion at the Anti-Corruption Summit held at Lancaster House

Over 40 leading academics have resigned from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) peer review college over the inclusion of the «big society» in its delivery plan.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a series of citizens» assemblies, organised by the Electoral Reform Society in partnership with academics from Sheffield, Southampton and London, which will be taking place in Southampton and Sheffield over the next month.

That is why the Electoral Reform Society, together with academics from the Universities of Sheffield, Southampton, London and Westminster, is running two Citizens» Assemblies in Sheffield and Southampton over the next month, looking at how those areas should be run in the new devolution age.

The military equivalent of funding political parties was constituency building with generous disbursement of public funds and patronage to traditional and religious rulers; civil society; academics; military men and the business sector in the attempt to buy the legitimacy their governments lacked.

Each year the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) offers up to 25 scholarships to SME student members to recognize academic excellence in these fields.

A new study in SLEEP, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that delaying school start times results in students getting more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for academic success is common.