Sentences with phrase «affinity groups around»

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The affinity groups at NIU are not only focused around diversity but also common interests, such as the Marching Band Alumni Council.

In my research, I've found that one kind of affinity group — inhabited by video gamers — offers particularly important lessons for K - 12 education, suggesting how we might better organize our work around students» interests and passions (Gee, 2011).

«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.

You might even consider starting your own group as a means of forming a nucleus of connections centered around a common interest, background, specialty, affinity, etc..

Law firms can address this lack of esprit de corps, he believes, through broader encouragement of affinity groups — not just built around common denominators such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation but around any number of shared interests: books, travel, music.