Masters degrees tend to involve in - depth
academic study at university, which may prepare you for a particular career or provide general skills and knowledge that allow you to enter various fields of work.
(«Tradition» may be the wrong word here —
an academic study at a California university made the case that the Journal had published exactly the same one - page story in every issue for the last fifty years.
An academic study at her museum found that students, especially those in rural or poor schools, gained skills like critical thinking, historical empathy and tolerance after attending field trips.
For example, a 2007
academic study at the University of Berkeley, Negative Advertising and Voter Choice, suggested that running negative ads raised turnout for candidates that ran them.
Dr Nicole Archard, Dean of
Academic Studies at the all - girls Sydney school, hopes this project can offer solutions to improve educational outcomes for girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), both here in Australia and overseas.
Vera pursued
her academic studies at Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Antioch University.
Not exact matches
Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited
academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985
academic report by researchers
at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»
According to the
study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and
academic, who is currently vice president of
academics and innovation
at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.
Sociologist Pontell and his colleagues Kitty Calavita,
at U.C. Irvine, and Robert Tillman,
at New York's St. John's University, have demonstrated this in a number of compelling
academic studies.
A similarly structured
study looking just
at academic science jobs found that application materials from female candidates received lower rankings and lower starting salaries than male candidates, even when a job application reviewer was female.
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.
Sue Yasav is responsible for developing strategic insights through surveys, social listening and
academic studies on topics related to the retail industries and consumer financing
at Synchrony Financial.
For the 1950 - 1951
academic year, the estimated average cost for a man to
study at the Graduate School of Business
at Columbia was $ 1,690, according to the Columbia University Archives.
A year of
studying for a Master of Science in Financial Economics
at Columbia for the 2017 - 2018
academic year will run you an estimated $ 91,760, according to the university's website, with $ 58,512 for tuition and $ 21,375 for housing.
«But basic field
studies on ticks has never been a priority
at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our
academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»
The Williams Institute
at UCLA School of Law Tuesday released a report summarizing
academic studies and other documented evidence of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
An
academic high achiever, she
studied civil engineering
at Queen's but within a year knew it wouldn't be her career.
«The education I received
at Haskayne through professors with strong
academic and business credentials, combined with work experience during my
studies meant I was well placed to pursue a range of interesting career opportunities,» says Wesley.
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).
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...
Keri Damen Keri Damen is a program leader, intrapreneur and instructor who manages the
academic and business success of a growing portfolio of cutting edge, market - driven business programs designed to advance the careers of learners
at U of T's School of Continuing
Studies.
You'll develop your Personal Leadership Development Plan
at the beginning of the program and use feedback from a variety of sources (
academics and leadership courses,
study team, co-workers and managers) to inform your development process and experiments.
A new
academic study reports that the self - employed are happier and more engaged
at work than traditional employees are.
«I can't think of anybody in any other administration that had anything like this,» said George Edwards, a professor
at Texas A&M University and the editor of an
academic journal
studying the American presidency.
The PhD program
at the Rotman School of Management provides a rigorous environment for
academic research and
study.
His
academic studies were suffering due to his addictions, so he took on extra classes
at a local college.
Although marked out as an exceptional student by his professors
at the Gregorian University, he was denied the opportunity to pursue further
studies, so he does not write in the
academic style and precise terminology of the professional theologian.
But the Civitas
study, by the
academic Islamic specialist Denis MacEoin, estimates that there are in fact
at least 85 working tribunals and he says that the principles on which most Sharia courts work are indicated by the fatwas — religious decrees — set out on websites run by British mosques.
There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville
studies, with Kelley's book and
at least half a dozen other major
academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville
studies.
A given number of course credits is the quantifiable criterion to determine whether a course of
study has been completed
at such a level of competence as to have earned an
academic degree.
During his
studies at Union Seminary in New York City during the
academic year 1930 - 31 he made a number of contacts that later proved important.
However, once I began to
study the Bible
at a more
academic level I found that scripture came alive in all sorts of fresh ways.
Once,
at an
academic conference
at which people began banging on, as they so often do, about what a magnificently systematic thinker Aquinas was, I lost my temper and said that whenever I heard people going on about this, I knew one thing: that they had never closely
studied Aquinas's texts.
A recently awarded fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities will make it possible for me to
study and write
at Princeton University next
academic year.
At this point they, tend to forget that wealth is only one of many goods, and that other
academic disciplines
study some of these other goods.
I once knew of a case in an
academic setting where
at noon one professor very visibly took his Bible and lunch and went to a nearby chapel to
study, pray and be alone.
«The University of Texas
at Austin has cleared sociology professor Mark Regnerus of
academic misconduct after he was excoriated by some in the media over a
study showing that parents» homosexual relationships can have negative effects on children.
He was not an
academic, never having been given the opportunity to
study at a postgraduate level, but he was an intellectual, a man who was passionately interested in the meaning of reality and possessed of an immense ability to see to the heart of a matter.
There is little systematic
study, however, of religious belief and identity among
academic scientists
at eliteinstitutions, leaving a lacuna of knowledge in this area.
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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.
The aforementioned dissertation on Tillich, supervised by John E. Smith, was completed in 1962, and a Danforth Fellowship afforded Lewis the opportunity of undertaking additional work in biblical
studies at Yale Divinity School during the following
academic year.
not do a mere cursory reading of it... been
studying it both in
academic settings and
at home for over 25 years
One of UCLA's own faculty members has written a historical
study of civic life in early modern Philadelphia that is directly germane to my own analysis of his and others»
academic lives
at UCLA.
«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the
academic robustness required of me in
studying theology
at honours level and biblical interpretation
at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.
It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the
academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to
study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply
at the level of informed citizen.
They also live in the
academic world of religious
studies and comparative religion, which is also a community of sorts and also claims to know
at least something of the truth.
My year in pursuit of a master's degree in theology
at Yale was for me not just a preparation for further
academic study, but, rather, an essential rounding out of my education for the Presbyterian ministry.
One
study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high
academic standards,» «
academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked
at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.
At the same time, certain complaints recur: traditional curricula are rooted in precritical assumptions, serve
academic guilds, pre-empt feminist or minority
studies, and are built on unviable ways of relating theory and practice.
His formal education gave him excellent preparation for the religious aspects of this endeavor, since the only
academic degree he ever earned was in theology, after a three - year course of
study at Cambridge University.