Sentences with phrase «like academic culture»

For others, though, factors like academic culture, location or alumni networks may be just as, or even more important than pure finances.

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For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

The latter case can easily be experienced by anyone who, like myself, frequently commutes between academic and corporate America; another but comparably sharp culture shock can be undergone if one moves between, say, the Harvard Faculty Club and a working - class tavern in South Boston.

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Kamisher - Koch argued at a meeting of administrators, students and faculty that beverages like Red Bull and 5 - Hour energy promote a «culture of stress» and encourage bad academic habits.

I like to call this the «monk culture» aspect of academics: Only if you love research enough to sacrifice yourself completely to the system as it exists can you be sure you belong there.

Engler understands and would like to see academic culture change to reward more diverse training.

In the midst of this environment, Kovacic made it her goal to create equitable learning conditions that successfully supported a culture of academic risk taking, intellectual curiosity, and development of both scholars and citizens — all in an effort to change the lives of students like Brittany.

Ballard's Habits, Community, and Culture class teaches social - emotional skills and what his school calls Habits of Success — promoting qualities like positive academic mindsets and emotional intelligence that are linked to college readiness.

Having a quality music program can help musical students, who otherwise feel unable to connect to a school's academic or sporting culture, feel like they too are able to make a positive contribution to, and feel a part of, their community.

«Job one in a school like this is to establish a culture of peace and high academic expectations and do rigorous social supports,» says John Horan.

This is not to deny that many public schools can support cultures of academic achievement, as books as varied as Karin Chenoweth's It's Being Done and Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion describe.

The CORE system is based on 60 percent academics and 40 percent for socio - emotional / culture - climate factors like absenteeism and suspensions.

«At a turnaround school like ours, school culture and attendance have to be in place before you can see academic gains,» said Heckendorn.

As both an artist and an academic, Bright utilizes a keen historical and pop - culture eye to illustrate an intriguing fantasy: created between 1989 and 1990, the photographic series has Bright's own image superimposed onto stills from classic films like

Around this time, academic critics like Hal Foster championed Prince's work as part of a postmodern critique of commodity culture and as a definitive break with the fusty traditions of high modernism.

Journalists like Monbiot, despite all his brilliant work in keeping up with the science and trying to explain it to the masses, just haven't ever experienced academic culture from the inside.