Sentences with phrase «begin as an academic»

This approach did not begin as an academic perspective but rather emerged out of the concrete experience of the poor and of the pastors who lived and worked with them.

The company began as an academic research project called the Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse, launched by Lemley in 2006 as a collaboration between Stanford's law school and its computer science department.

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«We think of it as a marketing campaign that begins as soon as people step foot on the campuses where we recruit,» she says, noting the company only targets students with stellar academic credentials who have shown clear evidence of leadership.

The Internet began as a medium for sharing information among academics; today it is furthering that initial vision as a tool for sharing information and knowledge across the entire educational community of students, parents, and educators worldwide.

The first one — called the CPW Lab app — was developed after he had begun a collaboration with Facebook in early 2013, as part of his academic studies.

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.

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.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

Somehow we have never established a strong academic tradition of self - reflection about the meaning of our institutions, and as our institutions changed and our republican mores corroded, even what knowledge we had began to slip away.

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.

Currently the Academic Dean at the University of Illinois in Chicago (where he cops an annual salary approaching a quarter of a million dollars, making him the highest paid dean in the country), he began his career as a scholar of seventeenth - century English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.

The former Big East All - Academic honoree has the size, skill set and athleticism to be a sound tight end in all phases as he begins his NFL career.

When Robinson left, USC was beginning to feel the effects of NCAA sanctions instituted early in 1982 as a result of ticket schemes, cash funneled to players, academic fraud, improper employment, etc..

As social pressures begin to mount, many girls ratchet down their academic effort.

Researchers concerned with academic - achievement gaps have begun to study, with increasing interest and enthusiasm, a set of personal qualities — often referred to as noncognitive skills, or character strengths — that include resilience, conscientiousness, optimism, self - control, and grit.

Mischel intended the experiment merely as a look into how children resist temptation, but when he began tracking down the marshmallow kids in the early 1980s, he found that those who'd waited for two marshmallows at age 4 had much higher SAT scores and better academic records as teenagers.

We begin our programs by assessing your child's academic strengths and weaknesses, as well as his or her attitudes about school and learning.

As our girls head towards their teenage years, small things begin to get more and more complicated to figure out sometimes — why they're left out, how to juggle academics when there is the obsession with beauty amongst their friends every day, how to deal with irritating (and gorgeous) boys, how to manage time effectively; the list goes on.

After our day and a half of API celebration and sessions, Dr. Darcia Narvaez's program will begin with world - renowned academics, including API Advisory Board member Dr. Bruce Perry, founder of the Child Trauma Academy, as the keynote.

Indeed, it is important to remember that UKIP began life as the baby of left - wing academic Alan Sked, who subsequently quit the party, claiming that it was being taken over by right - wingers and racists.

Now the fate of these students is uncertain as fresh students have already reported, and academic work has also begun.

RAW began life as University Radio Warwick in the 1970 - 71 academic year by students who spent their summer vacation installing an induction loop transmission system in the Rootes residence buildings.

In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly,» Gibson wrote in his announcement.

At the time of his resignation, Goldsmith, who Bloomberg had hailed as a «superstar,» merely said that he was leaving office to provide «more flexibility for me and my family» and begin his academic work.

Mr Uthman Olayinka, General Secretary, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), LASPOTECH chapter, told NAN that the strike began at noon as directed.

SUNY students begin the academic season this year with a promise from the state: they can transfer any general education requirements as well as some discipline - specific courses from one school to another in what Chancellor Nancy Zimpher calls the «guaranteed seamless transfer of credits.»

The UFT began its Community Learning Schools Initiative in 2012 as a way to help schools overcome the academic, social and emotional barriers that poverty creates for too many New York City students.

But, as Finucane's academic interests began to take shape, she found herself drawn to pure mathematics, which she saw «as pretty remote from the questions of economic equality and social justice and so forth,» she says.

Hockfield officially began her career as an academic leader in 1998, serving as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.

«As an academic, I would not know how to even begin to prepare someone for a career in industry,» says Kelly Suter, an assistant professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky and an adviser to the ScienceCareers.org Forums.

According to a study of biomedical postdocs in the U.S. published in November, most said in a survey that when they began graduate school they were aiming for academic faculty careers, but that goal became less attractive as they advanced through their studies.

Discover: You began your academic career in Japan in the»50s as an assistant professor of agricultural science.

The academics suggested that teachers should be made aware if youngsters have had a history of repeated ear infections, so they can consider the possibility of any hearing loss and understand how the consequences of these infections may impact on children as they learn about the sound structure of words and begin to read.

When his turn to question Holdren arrived, Rohrabacher began by requesting permission to submit the names of 100 climate scientists who disagree with the consensus on global warming, including people Rohrabacher described as prominent academics.

The story of the NYU Langone dashboard system for tracking academic and clinical performance begins with the appointment of Robert Grossman as dean and CEO in 2007.

Ms Kalonji began her academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she served as Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, from 1982 to 1990.

We welcome all university postdocs to the annual picnic to mingle with fellow postdocs as we begin another academic year!

What began as a 30 - bed hospital has evolved into one of the nation's largest private nonprofit hospitals, an academic teaching hospital and a center for leading medical research.

Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.

While working as a literature professor at a community college, she began blogging as a way to relax in between working on academic articles.

Guest author: Charles M. From the beginning of the modern international dating movement in the mid-1990s no group has been as uniformly hostile towards the concept of western men marrying women from overseas as academics.

Thousands of children will begin the term in 52 new schools as the next wave of free schools open their doors for the next academic year.

In recent years, critics of charters have moved beyond looking at the academic impacts of charters and have begun to consider other impacts, such as the influence of charters on school segregation.

For example, while many black children begin developing English oral - language skills years before formal schooling, many Hispanic children must develop English language proficiency as they are simultaneously learning academic content.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET: Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?

The Seventh Annual Academic Olympiad Comes to HGSE When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

As a result, interest in his methods and development tools began to spread though the academic community.

As they begin finding their own academic voice, they realize that they can have voice and agency in other areas of their lives.