Sentences with phrase «number of university presidents»

An increasing number of university presidents with business backgrounds are coming into colleges with the idea to reform them and make them more marketable, more desirable, and, in turn, more profitable.

When the Vatican prescribed in 1990 that Catholic universities must maintain a majority of Catholics among their faculty, a number of university presidents responded that this was a requirement that would have to be adjusted to American practices.

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The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.

He was President of Meadville Theological School in Chicago, then taught at Claremont School of Theology, the University of Iowa, and a number of other schools of theology.

Commenting on the today's report by the Independent Commission on Fees which highlights the fall in university admissions, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Dr Mike Short CBE, said: «Whilst the rise in tuition fees has resulted in a fall in the number of UK university applications, the economic downturn has clearly played its part too.

Actually, the numbers are a little bit better for The President in the suburbs of New York, including Westchester, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, where 37 % of suburbian voters approve of Trump while 60 % disapprove.

Elected officials, activists, advocates and university students have a number of actions planned for this week to decry the president's policy dictates targeting Muslims and undocumented immigrants, as well as to provide support and guidance to impacted people.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Four years later, in July 2012, as we also noted, NIH's Biomedical Workforce Task Force, chaired by former Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman, bemoaned in a report that» [t] here are very little reliable data on the number of postdoctoral researchers in the US and the length of their training.

«Over the past five years, our faculty has increasingly engaged in entrepreneurial and technology transfer activity — with significant increases in the number of U.S. and foreign patents issued, technology inventions licensed and start - up companies formed,» says UMSOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor.

This year researchers discovered the actual number is «certainly less than 10» and probably no more than six, says Doug Melton, a molecular biologist at Harvard University and one of the scientists the president consulted before his decision.

The university's board of directors, called overseers, last spring urged Harvard President Neil Rudenstine in a confidential report to take specific steps as quickly as possible to increase the number of women faculty in all departments.

Who: Marley Bauce, Manager of Research Initiatives, Office of the Executive Vice President for Research Where: Columbia University Number of years in research development: 7 Length of NORDP membership: 2 years Number of NORDP conferences attended: 1

A study that suggests a growing number of Canadian university students are resorting to «sugar daddies» and «sugar mommies» to combat rising tuition costs is «troubling», says the Vice President External at University of Alberta Students&raquniversity students are resorting to «sugar daddies» and «sugar mommies» to combat rising tuition costs is «troubling», says the Vice President External at University of Alberta Students&raqUniversity of Alberta Students» Union.

Meanwhile, there are larger issues for him to untangle, involving the university's housing policy and the conflicts between the residence containing the largest number of white assholes (one of whom is the president's bratty son, played by Kyle Gallner) and the house where most of the black students land (and where the dean's upstanding, tweed - and - pocket - square - wearing son, played by Brandon P. Bell, strives to be a leader).

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursuniversity that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online coursUniversity, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

Since its inception in 2006, the CJ Koh Professorship in Education program has seen a number of world renowned professors in the field of education visit including Professor Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College, Columbia University, Professor Linda Darling - Hammond of Stanford University and Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor for Education Policy to the Secretary - General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The number of players involved in governing American colleges and universities — is both what makes higher education strong and the job of president difficult.

Among this record number of participants were international presidents, including two presidents from the American Universities in Afghanistan and Cairo.

The candidates for the Orleans Parish School Board will meet tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 2) at a forum moderated by Tulane University President Scott Cowen and hosted by a number of local civic groups.

Compiled and edited by Harvard University President, Charles W. Eliot, the goal of the publications was simple: provide a liberal education based on the number of books able to fit across a five - foot shelf (that he felt should be read from for 15 minutes per day).

Works by Feuerman are held in a number of important public collections, including: Forbes Magazine Art Collection (New York), Brandeis University (MA), Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles), the Hermitage (St Petersburg), President Mikhail S. Gorbachev Foundation (Moscow), Vin & Spritcentralen Museet (Stockholm), Art - st - Urban (Lucerne), and many others.

If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the Big Oil companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?

Perhaps the kind of RICO action Whitehouse has in mind is similar to the one proposed to President Obama a few months ago by a number of key climate scientists, led by one Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University.

Born 1952; graduated in law from St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1975); Doctor of Laws (1979); Lecturer (1977 - 84), Senior Lecturer (1984 - 90) and then Professor at St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1990 - 2013); Dean of the Faculty of Law of St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1988 - 91); member of the Council on Legislation at the Bulgarian National Assembly (1995 - 97); Jean Monnet Professor at the New Bulgarian University (2002 - 05); Chairman of the Council of Legal Advisers to the President of Bulgaria (2002 - 03); Judge (2003 - 09), then President (2009 - 12), of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court; Head of the Constitutional Law Department at the Faculty of Law of St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (2013 - 16); member (2006 - 16) and Vice-President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2013 - 15); member of the Constitutional Council at the Bulgarian Ombudsman (2015 ‑ 16); editor of a number of legal journals; author of numerous legal publications; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 19 September 2016.

Since his transition from tech lawyer to legal technologist Dan's been mentioned, featured, or published widely in the legal industry press and spoken to legal and non-legal audiences in a number of settings including at SXSW Interactive, Ignite Seattle, Georgetown University, Stanford University, ReInvent Law, and the National Conference of Bar Presidents.

During roughly the same time period, there have been 12 presidents, 13 governors of Mississippi, 18 No. 1 hits (a disputed number) by Elvis Presley, 11 head football coaches at Mississippi State University...

Iyla has previously held a number of community leadership roles as National and Queensland President of Relationships Australia, Director of Legal Aid Queensland, National President of University Colleges Australia and a Member of the Specialist Accreditation Board, Queensland Law Society.