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Not exact matches
Tensions were
high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of
academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of
higher education.
«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to
higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the
academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.
It's to send a warning shot at all colleges and universities to restrain
academic freedom or risk further economic assaults on
higher education,» Wilson wrote for Inside High
higher education,» Wilson wrote for Inside
HigherHigher Ed.
«We have all this evidence that the
academic benefits are limited to
high - needs kids,» says
education expert David Johnson, an economist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont.
I am 72 and retired, female and divorced, with graduate degrees and 45 years an
academic in
higher education.
Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the
academic stream, and
higher graduation and postsecondary
education rates.
Interest on private
education loans qualifies, provided that the
higher education expenses are attributable to a particular
academic period and the disbursement used to pay for those expenses occurred during the
academic period or a 90 - day window at the start and end of the
academic period.
In view of his approach to solving the problems facing
higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for
academic disciplines.
To a young
academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on
higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.
The major resistance to the total victory of economism in
higher education is commitment to
academic disciplines.
Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which
academic disciplines are institutionalized in American
higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of
academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate
education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek
higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing
education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of
higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «
academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic
higher education.»
Great
academic leaders have been persuaded that the church is a counterproductive sponsor of ambitious
higher education.
The first three meanings of «liberal» in the
academic sphere are all familiar and have frequently been treated in discussions of
higher education.
Yet despite the upheaval in the
education system from the 1960s onwards some schools have managed to maintain
high academic levels of excellence.
That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of
academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian
higher education.
Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits
academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic
higher education.»
Many of my friends believe that the push for diversity in
higher education has led to a decline in emphasis on
academic achievement.
With the
academic year in full swing on American university campuses — and bipartisan discontent over
higher education's sorry state now stronger and louder than ever — it's worth asking what we can learn from Augustine's example.
As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of
academic freedom had relatively little place in American
higher education prior to this century.
If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of
higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of
higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular
academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.
It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on
high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate
education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.
In doing so, they had powerful support from the secular media of communication and they made very effective use of a conception of
academic freedom that had been designed to promote the secularization of
higher education.
The roots of that hatred, and the assumption that Christianity is the bane of true knowledge, can largely be found in that great shibboleth of contemporary
higher education, «
academic freedom.»
The Chronicle of
Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univ
Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of
Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univ
Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts
education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univ
education, and the whole issue has been given
academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.
The rash of phony transcripts and
academic cheating spells out the fact that athletics are now an abomination to the ideals of
higher education.
The panel respects the importance of
academic freedom in
higher education.
Thus Stephens, where two - thirds of the girls go on to
higher education after graduation, is convincing evidence of the benefits of properly coordinated physical and
academic education.
A 2005 Sociology of
Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited:
High School
Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite
Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow
academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite
academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite college.
The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the
Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through
higher standards, stronger teachers, and other
academic reforms alone.
The balanced middle school program at Corvallis Waldorf School fosters confident students well - prepared for the challenges of
high school, through
academics, the arts, outdoor
education, research projects and extra-curricular activities.
Be sure your middle schooler establishes a strong
academic footing and be sure to spend some time during middle school to talk about
high school and to prepare your child for the final years of his or her
education.
However, a recent study suggests that this connection is false or actually the opposite and that the results are due to the fact that moms with an
academic education (and supposedly a
higher IQ) tend to breastfeed their babies more.
In some cases, continued
academics in
higher education may allow some rights or privileges of adulthood to be withheld until a later date; or conversely, if the children were held back and attended
high school on a full - time basis, but have passed the age of majority.
The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of
high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific
academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
According to their framework,
high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and
academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and
high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal
education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.
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Being required to execute a great number of
academic projects is a natural part of the
higher education life, certainly.
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality
education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very
high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»
Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive
Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National
Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, as well as a number of
high - profile authors,
academics, and entertainers.
Also at 6 p.m., Guillermo Linares of the state
Higher Education Services Corp. hosts an Excelsior Scholarship information session, Onondaga Community College,
Academic II Recital Hall, Room P100, 4585 W. Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse.
This follows a directive by the Ghana
Education Service (GES), to heads of public Senior
High Schools to charge final year students only half of the third term fees for the 2017/2018
academic year.
It also reorganised secondary
education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on
academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to
higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.
Despite promises by the Mahama administration to champion what he called a progressively free Senior
High School initiative, no student received a scholarship for the 2016/2017
academic year, according to the Minister for
Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh.
The first resolution, introduced by Vice President for
Academic High Schools Janella Hinds, articulated the union's view on the role of testing in public
education.