Sentences with phrase «of liberal students»

In 1981, he went on to read Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford, and was elected president of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.

He was elected as the vice-chairman of the Union of Liberal Students for a year in 1981.

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But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it's often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four - year degrees to students tuition free.

At Bowdoin College, the second - ranked liberal - arts school on our list, first - year students can choose from 35 first - year seminars and are required to take a course in each of five general subject areas.

While this may be a good starting point in some cases, it's increasingly not a helpful strategy, especially in the case of liberal arts students.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

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.

Conspiracy theories have started to widely circulate claiming that some of the most visible student activists are not actually students but «crisis actors» meant to carry a message for liberals and other anti-gun lobbyists.

80 per cent of new jobs in British Columbia will require some post-secondary education and under the B.C. Liberals, the province's apprenticeship program is a mess and tuition and debt for college and university students are at an all - time high.

The Liberals have chosen to invest much more time in electioneering than governing and this is reflected in the lack of leadership we are seeing today in B.C. Everyone from students and families to seniors and skilled workers are facing real challenges with no meaningful support from the B.C. Liberal government.»

«Instead of supporting the next generation, the BC Liberals have done things like levy a secret tax on youth through a minimum 2.5 % student loan interest surcharge.

The B.C. Liberals have had two MLAs assigned as spokespeople on advanced education, yet neither of them have asked a question on behalf of students in Question Period in 2017 or 2018.

The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

our country will be the worse for it as more students face the brainwashing of liberal education's agenda to promote blind acceptance that truth and creed do not exist.

Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton is among the students of American religion who have incisively analyzed the ways in which all the churches are split along a left - right, liberal - conservative divide, mirroring the divides within our general culture.

That is not the fault of liberal academics who correct the grammar in black students» term papers, and eventually the liberal establishment will call off the witch - hunt.

One of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile.

Involvement in campus ministries was often the next step, typically at a denominational or private liberal arts college that sent substantial numbers of students on to seminary.

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.

Surprisingly, however, I met no suspicion from the prisoners such as I encounter among liberal Protestant Harvard students, for whom the practice of silence must inevitably mean being silenced.

Some of the categories included: Top colleges for «Most Conservative / Most Liberal Students,» «Best Professors,» and «Great Financial Aid.»

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..

At Pomona College (very liberal, sophisticated and all that [and home of the wonderful Porcher Susan McWilliams]-RRB-, a student finally asked me after my outrageous remarks if it's really true that I'm not GREEN.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

By the same token, even within liberal theological institutions, the number of evangelical students is on the rise.

Thus, the curriculum of liberal studies is to be guided primarily by concern for high quality, not by considerations of student popularity and interest — though these may be welcome by - products.

This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).

With skillful teaching it is often possible for the same course of study to be vocational for those students who need it to be and a liberal study for those who do not.

I discovered this lack of community when I taught in a fine small suburban liberal - arts college; my otherwise delightful, intelligent students were almost illiterate in group experience.

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.

As a student he shared the liberal temper of the campus.

That is why students in liberal arts colleges are rightly concerned about the reality of the freedom their education is meant to exemplify and promote.

Language study in the liberal arts colleges should release the student from any sense of bondage to what he may have been taught to regard as the necessary laws of correct speech.

Students in the best liberal arts colleges are certainly not practicing the enjoyment of leisure.

The aims of liberal learning are not achieved when the student simply accumulates ready - made academic information about the faiths of mankind.

Mathematics is a liberal study only when the student actively engages in the construction and deductive elaboration of postulate systems.

Much of the work centers on Miller's experiences with friends and fellow students while auditing courses at Reed College, a liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.»

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

Liberal arts colleges continue to thrive even though the proportion of students served by them is steadily declining.

The most prevalent argument currently offered on behalf of liberal education is that it best prepares the student for graduate or professional school, for executive leadership in business, or for being a wife or mother in a professional or executive family.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

Many students in the liberal arts suffer under this eclipse of truth.

This type of student has never had a liberal education, but he is intelligent in America.

Maybe it's because I take after him so much temperamentally (bookish hardcore introvert) and theologically (I absorbed a lot of that from his seminary student days when I was 10 - 13 years old, but I'm more radical in a lot of ways — for instance, he was a bit of a prude and I know I'm more «morally liberal»), but all that public heart - on - sleeve stuff just makes my skin crawl.

Fewer students every year seek a liberal arts degree, and their teachers offer a politicized and corrupted version of the liberal arts.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

Nowadays a socially liberal student, outraged over the injustices of our society and the legitimating role the churches play in them, charges into a pastorate armed with an activist gospel.

Yet I can think of no more conformist message in liberal societies than the idea that students should learn to think for themselves.