Sentences with phrase «of academic»

Because academics so often fear (with good reason) deviating from what senior professors and administrators want, it took a senior administrator lobbying for changes to make family leave part of the normal routine of academic life.

They range in age from 11 to 21, come from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, exhibit a range of academic performance (from excellent to failing), and vary substantially in personality and social characteristics.

The crucial test of academic freedom is not as much the celebrated A.A.U.P. or A.C.L.U. case as it is the daily practice of the professor in classroom

It is not an easy book to read, and if it had been read and reviewed only in the academic journals, like others of Altizer's books, issues of academic freedom would not have arisen.

Because of the remoteness of the academic discussion from the pressing concerns within the church, the church has in fact looked elsewhere for solutions to its problems.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

The question was taken up more seriously later when it lost its political significance and became a theological problem of academic interest.

What if a member of an academic department has simply done what I have done» given public testimony, or published a moral judgment on gay marriage?

In a variety of ways he has opposed the practice of «autonomous» interpretation outside the matrix of faith that is characteristic of the academic guild, which is preoccupied with historical questions, and which regards historical criticism as the goal and end of interpretation.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

Many more seek advanced degrees, as Trueman says in his second post, for «other reasons,» some relating to other aspects of church life and some with more secular intent, like the pursuit of an academic career.

Altizer's response to this whole discussion was that the meaning of the word God in the spiritual history of the world can not be determined by a few theologians acting in the privacy of an academic discipline.

The Protestant schools of theology in the United States and Canada along with all other schools are subject to the tensions inescapably given with this duality of academic functions.

The principles of academic freedom and of relative independence for education within the political structure do not exclude or excuse those who teach from active participation in political life.

Too often it is supposed that any rigorous pursuit of specialized knowledge must take the form of one of these academic disciplines.

The rigors of academic discipline were supplanted by painless studies which everyone could enjoy — but which few were able to respect.

Recent surveys indicate that most students do not regard cheating as a serious offense, and that many accept it without difficulty as one of the tools of academic success.

It's ironic, given I am at a fairly liberal college in terms of the academic staff, and a lot of the people who have done theology here have gone the reverse to me.

But theology does not have to mean either of these academic activities, valuable as they are in themselves.

Whitehead states the wrong: «Mr. Russell, a scholar known in every major university of the world, impelled by motives which religion dare not disown, has been driven out of academic life and deprived of academic encouragement...» Whitehead «leave [s] the question here,» without drawing the conclusion explicitly: restore the lectureship to rectify the wrong.

Before launching into such a critique, I want to note that a quite similar critique could be directed to many of the academic disciplines.

Hence bits and pieces of the totality of things can become the subject of an academic discipline that can then develop suitable methods of study with little attention to what is happening in other disciplines.

Specialized scholars stand at the summit of academic prestige, and subject - matter compartmentalization characterizes the curriculum, even to some extent in the elementary schools.

The widespread practice of academic dishonesty is a further reflection of the prevailing view of work.

Our undertaking is to discern any features that recur regularly enough to be considered typical in the process of academic secularization.

The first change, enacted by Christians without any intention of extinguishing or even compromising the Christian character of the college or university, consisted in muting all overt claims of the academic institution to be functioning as a limb of a particular church.

This was but a logical application of the principle of secularization itself, which wished neither to sponsor nor to countenance any overlap of the community of academic inquiry with the community of credal conviction.

Fisher: Because students frequently change their subjects of academic interest, I think it's most important for students to consider the academic philosophy of the institutions to which they intend to apply.

This meeting brought together women members of academic societies in religion to initiate the Women's Caucus: Religious Studies.

... It is impossible, this much is clear, to exaggerate the heroic self - inflation of academic literary criticism....

The worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind, trained to careful thinking, instructed in the methods of philosophic investigation, acquainted in a general way with the accumulated thought of past generations, and penetrated with humility.

This, after all (and here I throw down the gauntlet to some of my academic peers), is what examination shows them to be.

Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

Seventy percent of academic deans at schools in the Association of Theological Schools responded.

Therefore those of us who sought to initiate a feminist theological paradigm shift in the early 1970s must now concentrate on changing the disciplinary discourses of academic religious scholarship and of Christian theologies.

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.

In the past decade, most decisive for me has been not so much a change of mind as a change of academic - geographical location.

Seminarians and priests of the time who had a woman or a male lover on the side could, and did, cite Human Sexuality to reasonably claim that a very large part, if not the majority, of the academic theological establishment countenanced their behavior.

Although I never practiced at the Bar, the discipline of legal thinking helped me to break away from the closed world of the academic seminar.

He joined the faculty in 1967 and served as its first vice president and dean of academic affairs in 1982 - 85.

Bursting with self - confidence, they proved not the least bit intimidated by their lack of academic credentials.

Or Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Reed, or... well, suffice it to say we had a choice of dozens of small colleges that present a similar profile: formally committed to the liberal arts, highly selective in admissions, well - regarded for the quality of their academic programs, and quite openly enthusiastic about a handful of contentious concepts.

BILL NYE isn \» t a theologian and is not qualified to make theistic determinations any more than my auto mechanic (perhaps less, because my mechanic doesn \» t have a conceited view of his academic credentials).

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

Yet even though biblical Hebrew poetry had been the subject of academic study since the 18th century little attention had been paid to the poetics of biblical narrative.

In the meantime, Wood appears to be sanguine that if the leading question of theological inquiry is kept explicitly in view, it is powerful enough not only to subsume the leading interest of each of the relevant academic disciplines but also to resist distortions that the institutionalization of the academic disciplines might tend to impose on theology.

This would not have bothered Runciman, who was not intent on constructing another of the academic «small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack» where «criticism has overcome creation.»

You are the one demonstrating the very heights of academic ignorance and arrogance.

In a statement about the case, a spokesman for the Department for Education, said: «Schools are not allowed to remove pupils from sixth form because of academic attainment once they are enrolled.»