Sentences with phrase «for liberal arts students»

I also teach a 1 - credit Career Planning Seminar for Liberal Arts students and manage all of the Career & Co-op Center's social media pages.

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Far too many are saddled with mountains of student - loan debt and have little more than scant work experience and a liberal arts degree to show for it upon graduation.

Northern IL University... this liberal arts campus, just 60 miles west of Chicago, had an extrajudicial neutralization running through one of its remote facilities where the instructors liked to tell students they were spies with guns pointed to their heads for absolutely no reason while the rest of the class just watched with stupid grins..

William Carey started a liberal arts and science college for both «Christian and Heathen» students rather than strictly theological seminary for missionary students native or East Indian.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

They have certainly made adjustments to the new situation in which students come to prepare for jobs, but to a remarkable degree they maintain the liberal arts tradition.

Whereas a liberal arts education may provide some basis for viewing the global economy critically and making judgments as to how one wants to relate to it, very few students in universities are exposed to that kind of reflection.

They have created and run organizations aimed at restoring a classical liberal arts education for students of all ages.

For now, the students at the little liberal arts school will have to make do with the present campus and hope to make waves with their basketball team.

I often talk to graduate students who are interested in learning more about my job as a professor of chemistry at a top - tier liberal arts college and about the best way to prepare for a job like mine.

The two - phase competition involved the collaboration of students from diverse backgrounds, including architecture and construction management, responding to a request for qualifications, and request for proposals for a student health and wellness facility on a liberal arts college campus in the northwestern region of the United States.

Its customized educational programs combine the liberal arts with preparation for professional life, equipping students to successfully enter graduate school and / or the workforce.

The Department also presents a range of courses that address the Liberal Arts Foundation requirements in the natural sciences for undergraduate students in disciplines other than Physics.

I am a college student studying Liberal Arts with a concentration in Theology, English Literature, and Psychology for purposes of ministry.

Today, we've got a poster round - up for you, featuring some new domestic and international looks: Liberal Arts, stars writer / director Josh Radnor (Happythankyoumoreplease) as a thirty - something loser who falls for a 19 - year - old college student (Elizabeth Olsen) when he returns to his...

While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.

At Harvard, I studied higher education and learned about the law of education, board governance, the goals of liberal arts education, and the importance of access for students in need.

Chief among our core elements are: our college - prep curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences that fosters in students the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently; our supportive school culture in which students are given tools to develop character, gain confidence in their ability to learn, take responsibility for their own learning, and both support and feel supported by the entire community; and a strong co-curricular program in athletics, performing arts, and a host of after - school clubs that pique and develop students» interests.

While the Committee of Ten did suggest different programs of study for high schools (for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality liberal arts education.

For every person who believes that the high school's mission is to supply all students with a solid liberal arts education, someone else is convinced that young people's differing tastes and aspirations should preclude uniformity of academic standards and curriculum.

Simon's Rock College of Bard, a small, well - regarded liberal - arts institution in western Massachusetts, has unveiled an unusual financial - aid program for students completing the sophomore year of high school.

Now, informally dressed and over a glass of beer on the back porch of his summer compound on Cape Cod, he interviewed me (in his capacity as a board member) for the position of executive director of the Council for Basic Education, a national organization which championed the liberal arts for all students at the pre-college level.

Colleges and universities must both prepare students to succeed in a competitive job market and provide the liberal arts foundation necessary for lifelong learning, said the participants in the series, «Preparing for a Good Future: What Kind of Education Do We Want After High School?»

Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses — Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern languages — and where they ended up: teaching religion, not a very high - prestige subject, for modest rewards, in minor liberal arts colleges.

Applications for admission next fall to computer schools at California Polytechnic State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and other popular degree programs have fallen, with students seeking out majors in other specialized fields, or broader, liberal arts degrees.

By offering a classical liberal arts curriculum, Great Hearts not only cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, but also graduates great - hearted leaders prepared for success at the top colleges and universities worldwide.

Don't fall for the false compliment that you are so important — so important that you should be fired if your students» test scores are lagging behind, so important that your school's graduation rate is a moral and a civil rights issue, so important that you should be replaced by an inexperienced liberal arts major on a two - year resume building junket.

Great Hearts is a non-profit network of public schools dedicated to offering an academically rigorous classical liberal arts experience for K - 12th grade students.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

The project coordinators included a full professor from liberal arts, an associate professor from science, the director of the university center for integrating technology into students» learning experiences, and the half - time graduate student from education.

Hunter, for instance, has a 98 percent passing rate on the state's required Liberal Arts and Sciences Test, but students must register for the test their first semester and are not allowed to continue if they fail it.

Regis University's School of Education and Counseling provides a bachelor's degree with licensure program to allow students to take the necessary programs for certification while they work towards a Bachelor of Arts in the science or liberal arts fields in which they hope to teArts in the science or liberal arts fields in which they hope to tearts fields in which they hope to teach.

The nominee for education secretary graduated from Calvin College, a liberal arts institution in Grand Rapids that «prepares students to be Christ's agents in renewal in the world.»

If the answer is yes, which I believe is the correct one, then a curriculum with a solid foundation in the liberal arts is the best one, even for those students who have chosen a pathway to an industry certificate in a particular trade or a college pathway, whether in the liberal arts or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

For students with a bachelor's degree in the fields of education, liberal arts, fine arts or natural sciences, you will want to consider a master's degree in education rather than another bachelor's degree.

In pursuit of these virtues, our Special Education teams develop a program for each eligible student that maximizes access to the liberal arts curriculum through small - group or one - on - one instruction, both inside and outside of the regular classroom during the school day.

Founded on the belief that the opportunities for critical inquiry offered by the best colleges in the country should be available to younger students who have the ambition to learn, BECNO offers 11th - and 12th - graders in New Orleans a tuition - free, immersive liberal arts curriculum.

«Nazareth is an ideal higher education institution where students can receive a solid liberal arts education, essential preparation for both advanced education and career development.

As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.

In late 2012, when he heard that Edgewood, a liberal arts Catholic college with an enrollment of just over 3,000 students, was looking for a new dean of education, it sounded like a good fit.

A medical student is a more attractive target for a lawsuit than a liberal arts major, because one day the medical student will become a doctor, probably making six figures.

The biggest driver of student loan forgiveness for liberal arts majors isn't your degree, but rather your job after graduation.

Sarah Lawrence College, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the United States, is located nearby, making this hotel the perfect choice for students who are considering applying to the university.

Students compete for cash awards that directly support their schools» art departments or tuition credits at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

The mission of the Department of Art is to serve the needs of an urban and diverse university community by providing courses in a liberal arts foundation and in undergraduate and graduate programs in art that are designed to prepare students for careers in various professional fields or for further study in visual art and as lifelong producers or consumers of aArt is to serve the needs of an urban and diverse university community by providing courses in a liberal arts foundation and in undergraduate and graduate programs in art that are designed to prepare students for careers in various professional fields or for further study in visual art and as lifelong producers or consumers of aart that are designed to prepare students for careers in various professional fields or for further study in visual art and as lifelong producers or consumers of aart and as lifelong producers or consumers of artart.

This belief stood for an idea that the study and practice of art were indispensable aspects of a student's general liberal education.

«This series is co-curated by Temple Contemporary, Temple University's Office of Sustainability, and Temple University Libraries, along with faculty and graduate students from the Tyler School of Art, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Center for the Cinematic and Performing Arts.»

In addition, all students should take courses that provide a solid grounding in the liberal arts, which is a basis for your humanities and social science study at Cooper Union.

Artist Statement: Signs of Growth: Urban Food, is a site - specific installation / performance that took place in October 16 -18, 2009, in the context of Art in Odd Places festival, organized by Simonetta Moro, Eve Mosher and Tatfoo Tan with students at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.The work entailed identifying and marking «green sites» — or places that potentially might support locally grown food — with signs along 14th street, from Union Square to 10th Avenue.

He and Dreier, another faculty member, and some of their students left for a remote area of North Carolina to start a progressive liberal - arts school and community where learning and living would be intertwined.