Sentences with phrase «academic term at»

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The maximum length of any work term is eight - months and then I will return to school for at least one full - time academic semester before going out on another work - term

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...

Even Discover has a big bank - like benefit for in - school borrowers: a 1.00 % cash - back reward for earning at least a 3.0 GPA every academic term.

Before joining GW in 2007, Professor Cunningham taught at Boston College Law School, where he served a two - year term as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Schools that don't use traditional terms such as semesters or quarters usually must pay you at least twice per academic year — for instance, at the beginning and midpoint of your academic year.

There is not much in terms of academic learning happening at this particular community college.

The reason is that the idiom «tends to perpetuate the conventional dichotomy between so - called «theoretical» («wissenschaftlich,» «academic») and «practical» disciplines, and at the same time to promote a false impression of agreement on terms» (63).

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.

It's ironic, given I am at a fairly liberal college in terms of the academic staff, and a lot of the people who have done theology here have gone the reverse to me.

Third, a sermon is neither an academic term paper nor a paper to be read at the annual meeting of some learned society.

Just at that point in the term when the academic pressures seem unbearable, around 20 per cent of the first - year medical students volunteer to plan the service.

(I owe the term to the late Arthur Fishkin, my former colleague at Creighton University, who once explained the lack of consistent academic standards as stemming from the consistent Jesuit policy of mercification.)

The key point, however, is that if the secularized academic community can not on its own terms sustain moral standards, gain epistemological assurance or avoid the virtual deification of the human, then far more than fairness and open - mindedness is at stake in its relationship with Christians.

At a school with absurdly rigorous academic demands (both in terms of admissions standards and classwork), his recruiting opportunities are limited, but he has figured out ways to recruit as well as possible.

Club committees can apply for money from the Sports Federation in the form of Annual Grants at the beginning of the academic and Supplementary Grants once a term.

The scheme supports Blues athletes at Oxford University to improve their long term performance in sport whilst balancing their academic commitments.

Good academic standing includes: satisfying the requirement of at least one semester of residency; full - time student (enrolled for 12 credits); evidence of normal academic progress (successful completion of 24 credits during the two preceding terms); and the completion of four seasons of eligibility in no more than 10 semesters of attendance at any institution.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

She specifically looks at students who have shown long - term success in their academic and life trajectories.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

During the Michaelmas Term 2012, he was an academic visitor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

Indeed, a recent US academic study led by Dr Kurt Hübner, director of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia, makes the case that Irish unity could be worth 36 billion euros for the island of Ireland overall, with long - term improvements in productivity and growth.

The allowance was levied on students at the senior high school level, but that will no longer be charged from the next academic term.

He said, «When you look at the status of our education in terms of our students WAEC results, Academic accolades and performances in the past before the advent of «Opon Imo» by juxtaposing it with the current situation in the education sector, there is no doubt in the fact that we have improved geometrically and purposefully.

Mason felt pulled at times between his academic and consulting duties, and not only in terms of managing the workload.

Most postdocs I know agree that, in terms of lack of pressure, they are at the best stage of their academic careers, with no thesis or grant deadlines.

Many postgraduates in astronomy have a long - term career goal of acquiring a teaching and / or research position in an academic setting and, traditionally, the astronomy curricula and training at the graduate level has reflected that objective.

A team of academics, clinicians and charity representatives, called MBRRACE - UK, has looked at how care for these mothers and term babies can be improved.

But what will happen to these pioneer academics at the end of their two 3 - year terms of tenure?

Starting at the beginning of this academic term, the Career Center at Humboldt University has built up a network of small companies and enterprises where students and graduates get the chance to gain work experience.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

Young researchers on short - term contracts in particular view the law as the last — or at least the latest — blow to their professional ambitions at the hands of the Italian academic research system.

Children from low - income families are at substantial risk in terms of their social - emotional and academic skills at school entry, with fewer than half considered ready for school at age 5.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

Since at least the 1990s biotech companies have tried to influence university research, and it is a commonplace that the pharmaceutical industry dictates the terms of much academic clinical research.

«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.

Chen, a former Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says: «This high ratio of professors with [training from] foreign universities makes South University a leader in Chinese academic and scientific communities in terms of the level of globalization.»

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks CCNY # 2 among public colleges with the greatest success in ensuring the social mobility of our student body; at the same time the Center for world University Rankings places it in the top 1.2 % of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

The Applicant will be a researcher with between 3 - 15 years» experience beyond the award of their PhD or equivalent qualification, who at the time of application will be either in a permanent, full - time academic position (either within the institution at which they wish to base their CDA - funded research or another elsewhere in Ireland or overseas), or employed on a temporary (fixed - term) contract.

At the outset of the lecture, Mr. Bouffier touched upon the fact that, as Japan is a strong partner of Europe in political, economic, financial and academic terms, earlier during his visit to Japan he had held a meeting with members of the cabinet including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and had discussed in particular the strengthening of ties between Hesse and Japan.

Antonio has an unlimited interest in the field of sports biomechanics and long - term athletic development conducting academic research and presenting at national and international events as a member the International Society of Sports Biomechanics (ISBS) and the International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA).

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

They're sitting at individual desks and there's teachers and curricula, and more interestingly for us, very strict behaviour expectations and expectancies for the kids, not just in the academics but more in terms of how to behave in the classroom.

This might explain why some academics bemoan the term «brain - based learning,» including Robert Sylwester, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon.

Conclusion Using the four areas of judgement, the SENCO could produce short - term (urgent) and long - term (through the academic year) action plans, which formed the basis for discussion at senior leadership meetings.

Educators and parents who are interested in helping students reach their long - term goals — staying in school and getting good jobs — need to help them get better at «code switching» as they navigate their way through daily social and academic challenges.

Fourth, all students at West Point are on equal footing in terms of access to educational resources: all students must purchase the same laptop computers and iPad tablets, and all academic buildings have wireless Internet access.

The Eco-Schools competition will run over the 2016 - 17 academic year over three terms, with a winner at the end of each term, and an overall winner announced in June 2017.