Sentences with phrase «great public institutions»

This year sees the introduction of a new section, Collections, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, who said: «Each of these eight presentations by individual dealers, spanning millennia, contain within them germs of ideas for exhibitions that could easily take place at any of the great public institutions in the world.
Collections neatly ushers in an eclectic gathering of eight dealers, each with a focused selection of pieces that, in the words of Rosenthal, «contain the kernel of an exhibition that could take place at any of the great public institutions».
When you think about the unique aspects of our democracy and what holds the greatest potential for sustaining our leadership in the world, it comes down to our great public institutions.
The great public institutions like Kings College, the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Ibadan, Zaria or Ughelli — once the great national pride of Nigeria — are as a result underfunded and abandoned, so that the private, for profit secondary schools, may now thrive.
Think of our great public institutions, like the BBC and the British Library, there is more we can do to open them up, through digital public space.
Mr Brown continued: «We need responsible parents and empowered local communities working in partnership with our great public institutions - schools, colleges, children's centres - to provide a shared response.»

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Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations.
We have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in our public and private institutions to achieve greater prosperity for all Canadians.
As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private - and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.
«We have been encouraged by the great progress Secretary Shulkin has made and believe that he remains the best person to lead this important federal public institution on the behalf of the American people,» the group's national commander, Denise Rohan, said in a statement Monday.
As a profitable Crown corporation that operates on commercial principles, EDC works together with private and public - sector financial institutions to create greater capacity for Canadian companies to engage in trade and investment.
The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.
Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.
A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»
Trump, the greatest Planned Parenthood enthusiast among the Republican contenders, has always treated the law as either an obstacle to be overcome or another public institution to be suborned in the pursuit of his personal interests.
There the great issue was the institution of Christian discipline; i.e., the subjection of all phases of life, personal and social, private and public, to the moral - religious demands of the gospel.
Rose's charity all - star basketball game at the United Center at 3 p.m. Sunday will benefit five Chicago institutions: the Chicago Public Schools, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Illinois Special Olympics, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and the Juvenile Diabetes Fund.
«Council further appealed to students, staff, parents as well as the general public to demonstrate greater faith and dedication to the well - being of the institution, as better days lie ahead of it.
Some of these strategies are, of course, not unique to populists, but populists have greater leverage in rule - violating and attacking the institutions because they enjoy the backing of the public opinion.
The Brooklyn Public Library received the greatest allocation from the more than $ 8 million Adams» office dedicated to cultural institutions and libraries for fiscal year 2016.
They were to provide the sources of knowledge with which the Buffalo Public and the Grosvenor Libraries, the city's two greatest democratic cultural institutions (later brought together in the Buffalo & Erie County Library), could educate the city's architects and its diverse population in the traditions of the world's cultural riches.
«For many in The Bronx, and in fact across the country, the «America's College Promise» and the «American Technical Training Fund» proposals would be of great assistance for future college students saving money, especially as the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket — both at public institutions as well as private colleges and universities.
The Affordable College for All Initiative would help a greater number of students — in both public and private institutions — than the governor's plan.
The Morrill Act, which in 1862 created the mechanism that has funded many of the nation's great public universities, called for institutions that would «promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.»
The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.
The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library: Fred Wiseman's novelistically rich documentary is a celebration not only of a great New York institution but also the people who serve and inhabit its many branches.
The public lack of grief on the part of the Royals brought about a great backlash against them, and fearing additional public resentment, Queen Elizabeth II, at the behest of current Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to some compromises in order to preserve the institution of the Royal Family, including a public television address and walking among the people, acts which were exceedingly rare for the Queen of England.
From the halls of Harvard to public and private colleges in financial crisis to education startups in Silicon Valley, an urgent portrait emerges of a great American institution at the breaking point.
What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.
Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.
A. Public institutions are feeling increased pressure as state governments raise the accountability bar and expect greater productivity with fewer resources.
As shown in Figure 4, recipients at public institutions appear to derive substantially greater benefits from the program.
While Vance may see personal behavior rather than policy as exerting a greater influence on life outcomes, public institutions — the Marine Corps and Ohio State University most particularly — played a prominent role in arresting his otherwise inevitable march down the road to nowhere.
But relative to public four - year institutions, the for - profits were less able to get equivalent students through BA programs, and they left students in far greater debt.
This in turn prompted Mr. Goldhaber and Ms. Gordon to rebuke and state that it was imperative that the public understands what type of research was informing said policy claims and where and from whom educational institutions and think tanks receive funding from as there is greater potential for underlying evidential biases.
We need a moratorium on new charters until we get greater accountability on our tax dollars that pay for these alleged «public institutions
With dedicated and committed faculty members» expectations of great success from everyone, Middle College High has the potential to grow into one of the most successful institutions in recent years in the Metro Nashville Public School System.
In partnership with the United Way, a dozen public school districts and higher learning institutions, local museums, local medical partners, and under the leadership and guidance of the YMCA of the USA, the YMCA of Greater Rochester continues to implement innovative programming that strengthens their communities, help children to be active and make healthy food choices, develop passions for arts and sciences, and strives to close the achievement gap.
It is my hope that these two movements increasingly unite into a great social force that can transform public education and bring down the institutions of racism.
The Foundation has created groundbreaking independent institutions in each of its three investment areas, including The Broad Center, which develops leaders to help transform America's urban public schools, the Broad Institute, a global leader in genomics, and The Broad, a museum in downtown Los Angeles devoted to showcasing great contemporary art.
As the state's second most prestigious public institution of higher learning, and one that consistently ranks among the Top 25 in the nation, the University of California, Los Angeles enrolls greater than 44,000 students, over 25 % of which are graduate students.
Rather, its focus is on the digitization and open access to historical and archival documents, making it a great tool for researchers and academic institutions, but of little day - to - day importance in the lives of typical public library patrons.
Some institutions primarily serve a specific demographic, such as military personnel or federal employees, but others work with a greater section of the public.
NOTE: Applicants who are employees, spouses, contractors, and immediate family members of public agencies and non-profit institutions that are recipients of HOME funds will be asked to complete a form allowing NHS of Greater Cleveland to confirm with an applicant's employer that their work does not create a conflict of interest.
«The FHA program is fully self - supporting, and a great example of a public - private partnership with lending institutions,» said Nielsen.
As Alter wrote in 2010, «My hope was to find a museum emphasizing inclusion and diversity, one working toward greater representation of art by women and artists of color in its permanent collection, exhibitions and outreach programs; where the art by women would be fully accessible to students, teachers, scholars and the general public; and where my collection would be enthusiastically welcomed because it embodied the institution's vision.»
It amounts to many a postmodern critique of art institutions and arts funding — starting well before Jeffrey Deitch took over LA MOCA, the New Museum sold out to the Joannou collection, or the New York Public Library unloaded a great American landscape to Wal - Mart as, in time, the core of a new museum.
The new appointments reflect the Foundation's ongoing commitment to creating programs and building partnerships with institutions around the world to ensure that the Foundation's collection is widely accessible both to scholars and the greater public.
She gave us the best booth and we were thrilled to place the work with great public and private institutions.
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