Sentences with phrase «best public universities»

But it wasn't long ago that free education was within reach at some of the nation's best public universities.

The University of California system includes some of the best public universities in the country.

Thus, offering eligibility for automatic admission does not appear to increase access to selective colleges in general, even though it increases access to the best public universities in Texas.

In states, for example, that have some of the best public universities in the country, the amount of money that can be used to support research activities has declined precipitously.»

For them, there's little to lose in taking a chance on independent charter schools authorized by one of the best public university systems in the country.

Not exact matches

«For setting up a new tone, it's a good start,» said Sun Zhe, the co-director of the China Initiative of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

«The best universities in Brazil are the public, federal ones, and they are 100 percent free,» Fisbhen said.

«You would think that common sense would dictate that we choose someone who is well versed in business and has experience running a company for president,» said Barbara Kellerman, a James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Williams said he has attempted to collect information about the highest - paid public employees in the past but has struggled to obtain the salaries of coaches at public universities as well as other higher - education administrators.

(Careful readers of Brainstorm Health Daily will recognize Dr. Galea, a well - cited expert in this newsletter, as the dean of the Boston University School of Public Health.)

She has previously worked as a public health educator and crisis counselor at Washington, DC nonprofits, and as an ESL teacher for primary school & university students, as well as working adults.

The region checks off most of the boxes that Amazon is looking for: It has good public transportation, some of the best museums in the country, a progressive political climate, and elite schools and universities.

Whatever their economic merit, the cheques are clearly good politics, argued Ian Lee, an assistant professor of public Policy at Carleton University's Sprott School of Business.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

She has been an invited guest lecturer and speaker at numerous universities, including Stanford, Carnegie - Mellon, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and Ohio State University, as well as numerous public and private conferences and seminars across the globe, where she has chaired and spoken on the topics of corporate governance, performance, value, compensation and risk.

A university's revenues affect the entire institution, so better incentives for successful commercialization is a prudent strategy that could also ease the pressure for more public funding.

Calls on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, as well as other Kentucky public universities, to conduct research on hemp planting, cultivation, and analysis on demonstration plots.

Anthony has served on a variety of charitable boards focused on university fundraising and entrepreneur advisory boards, as well as several public company boards.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

This shows nothing more than ignorance of the bible and it's message for mankind maybe the President would do well to get alongside himself men of true faith Godly men who don't aspire for public office, who do nt name universities after themselves, who will tell him what Gods wants of him and not what the opinion polls want.

Once upon a time» well, actually, it was in 1897, on the campus of the public university that the citizens of South Dakota had just built in the town of Vermillion to express their pride in their recently achieved statehood.

This belief, Bloom claims, is a consequence of the failure of colleges and universities to cultivate among their students a sense of shared goals and a common vision of the public good.

Bushman likens BYU's «The Glory of God Is Intelligence» to Columbia University's «For the Advancement of the Public Good and the Glory of Almighty God»; I would tend rather to distinguish the two mottos.

Dawkins was also well known by the public as a great scientist, though his true talent was in communicating scientific ideas in books such as The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press) rather than in his actual research.

The mainline church, for example, founded a great many of the nonpublic universities in the country, and a lot of the public ones as well.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Such efforts themselves smack of liberal Protestantism: they seek to put the university, or at least some scholars within it, in the service of the public good.

If the bogeyman of religion is alive and well on formerly church - related campuses, imagine the terror that stalks public university faculties!

The good of university endowments extends far beyond their merely instrumental value in performing «public service,» such as funding scholarships and research.

It is endowments that give such private universities the freedom to act in ways that temporarily contradict public opinion and, in the long term, serve the public good.

He speaks about «God» in general, or about «theism,» as well as religious ways of thinking unjustly excluded from the public arena of the secularized university.

If he is not re-instated, a public exoneration of his character on the part of Texas Tech University should be forthcoming, since Mr. Bethel's future opportunities for an education as well as an athletic career have been jeopardized.»

If the U.S. Supreme Court had decided this winter that, for the public good, the all - powerful University of Michigan swimming team should be divided, like all Gaul, into three parts, no one would have benefited except Michigan.

«I have treated almost 60 professional players and Ibrahimovic is certainly one of the best and strongest players I have ever operated on,» said Fu, who was in Hong Kong this week to deliver the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Dr Lui Che Woo Distinguished Professor Public Lecture.

Especially at a large public research university, where the average lecture hall reaches maximum capacity at 500 students, the grueling pressure to excel, to set the curve, and to be the best, drives many students to purchase the «study drug.»

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

Her advocacy for youth includes providing an educational alternative in the form of Edge Hill University, where she is a Professor of Public Understanding of Science, as well as serving as the school's first chancellor.

Other partners include Durham County, Durham Public Schools, Durham Technical Community College, North Carolina Central University as well as local businesses and non-profit organizations.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Michelle Silver (Camp Name «Silver») graduated with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University in 2007 and then received an ScM in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009, and is currently a PhD candidate there as well, where her dissertation focuses on cervical cancer screening.

A new report out of Harvard University and published in the journal Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, suggests that a mother's milk may impact her little one's mood and behavior for the better — meaning every time you nurse, you help nudge your baby toward a calmer and happier outlook.

Finally, Alicia decided to make the shift from a corporate sales career to that of public health and nutrition earning her Master's degree in Nutrition from Georgia State University as well as her second bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Georgia State University.

So new technologies are always going to catch our eyes, and parents are always going to be tempted to buy the newest, biggest, best thing,» says Dawn Comstock, a professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health and a leading voice on concussion research.

«It actually doesn't happen that much if you give your patients good instruction about when to come in,» said Lu, who is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California Los Angeles.

«The irony of Chervenak and colleagues who are leading the anti-home birth crusade is that by polarizing the issue, no one can have a reasonable discussion to try and figure how to do this best,» says Eugene Declercq, a Boston University School of Public Health professor and a CDC statistician.