Sentences with phrase «of academic decisions»

Two recent decisions from either side of the Atlantic demonstrate the favoured judicial approaches to review of academic decisions and some of the potential pitfalls.

eLearning content providers can at the behest of academic decision makers adjust live learning content to improve academic proficiency.

Not exact matches

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

Maximizing support for the efforts of those such as Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's decision.

Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

Although the University has indeed placed several distinguished Christian scholars in endowed chairs, each academic department has a high degree of autonomy in making most hiring decisions.

Parents, students and society should require objective measures of academic success to make informed decisions.

Indeed, the academic evidence is clear that involving parents in all aspects of the decision - making process (including whether a minor receives an abortion) actually promotes adolescent sexual health.

I may get more help in deciding how to make ethical decisions as a Christian by reading Pilgrim's Progress or a biography of Dorothy Day or Martin Luther King, Jr. — or by reading the Gospels — than by reading an academic discussion of medical ethics.

When I accepted the invitation to join the faculty of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge I had two compelling reasons: Aware of the Vatican's repression and removal of creative theologians in West German universities, I anticipated a similar development in the U.S. I made therefore a conscious decision not to remain in an academic situation where I would have to spend the rest of my career fighting ecclesiastical backlash.

Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm - defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that determines the jurisprudential ethos and frames the judicial, political, and academic debate for the next quarter century or so.

We are deeply disappointed by and strongly disagree with the denial of the University's appeal, announced today by the NCAA, of an earlier decision by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions to vacate Notre Dame's 2012 and 2013 football victories due to academic misconduct by several student - athletes.

«Because of this limitation, UNC's decision to support the courses as legitimate combined with a stale and incomplete record that does not allow the panel to drill down to the course and assignment level — even if the panel had wanted to second guess the courses — it can not conclude academic fraud occurred,» the decision says.

Holding your child back a grade is one of the toughest academic decisions parents have to make for their child.

In their decision, John and Kristin considered school to be the support for the development of the whole person, not just the means for learning academic subject matter.

This creates a puzzle for academics: the ambiguity about whether donations are rewards or incentives — as well as the sheer multitude of factors that affect politicians» decisions — has led to inconclusive evidence about the influence of money in debates like this.

Today academics view it as an «iron triangle» that distorts policy decisions in favour of big business.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind, gives states considerable flexibility to craft their own accountability systems — in the process asking states to make crucial decisions about what it means to be a successful school, what rate of academic progress is acceptable, and...

It's unclear how a board system would work once students return to school, considering the number of decisions on massive contracts, contentious space - sharing agreements and other school governance matters that have to be taken up during the academic year.

The Parents Teachers Association (PTA), of the Tsito - Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO), in the Volta Region, have explained that the decision to levy students despite the implementation of government's Free Senior High School Policy was a collective resolve by parents to support the school's efforts to enhance the academic performance of students.

It is important to state that this decision was taken in the best interest of peace and harmony in the University for smooth academic work.

It is, as Chuka Umunna is quoted in a recent FT article headlined «Labour seeks to reposition as pro-business party», a fairly academic decision how you can cut the pie more fairly if you haven't increased the size of the pie first.

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) has described the court decision ordering the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba and Finance Officer to step aside as an attack on academic freedom.

«As a sequel to the conferment of an honorary doctorate degree on the founder, I'm happy to announce also that the [Academic] Council of UPSA in accordance with the statutes of the university has taken the decision to rename the university after Nana Opoku Ampomah,» he said.

The decision of the school authorities came as a proactive measure to forestall break down of law and order on the campus as a result of protests embarked upon members of the Non Academics staff union and Senior staff association of Nigerian polytechnics in the institution.

Stephen Hawking's considered decision to support an academic boycott of Israeli institutions should not be derided, says Jonathan Rosenhead

Many students and postdocs are ill - equipped to make informed decisions about whether to pursue academic careers, while those students who are set on a career outside of academia lament the few opportunities readily available.

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

All of the students wanted to earn a graduate degree in chemistry or biochemistry, which reminded me of why I made the decision to return to academics.

These decisions follow an investigation that revealed serious violations of University policies and values governing the behavior of faculty members in an academic environment.

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It's common for academic departments to use confidential student reviews in promotion decisions, and at some campuses students for years have produced booklets of edited reviews to help peers choose classes.

Hardy suspects academic technology transfer offices will receive fewer USPTO rejections on grounds of eligibility and believes the agency did «kind of a heroic job of trying to reconcile a great many court decisions.»

But about 5 months later, the decision was reversed on the grounds that, in the eyes of the Spanish system, McBride did not hold a master's degree or a Ph.D. «The forwarded documentation,» said the official rejection letter, «has not gone through any of the two legal processes, neither of homologation nor of recognition, for the mentioned title to be valid in Spain, neither for academic nor for professional purposes.»

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

The postdoc and the first 6 years of the independent academic career are crucial: Your performance during that time and the decisions you make establish the foundation for the rest of your professional life (Pfirman, 2005).

Instead, the group of 10 European academics predicts that the difficult decision to build expensive dike systems will grow easier in the future as the price of floods increase.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

Calling the NLRB ruling «comprehensive and clear,» Elizabeth Bunn, vice president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)-- the union seeking to represent NYU graduate assistants — enthused in a press release that «this decision confirms what academic student employees at campuses across the country know... they are workers and are treated as such by their employers.»

Senior academics are less concerned about the alleged influence of job - rumor Web sites on search committee decisions.

But the decision was also a setback for academic institutions in states that do not recognize same - sex unions, says Jeffrey Trammell, who is the outgoing rector of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, as reported by the Washington Post.

«In the process of making their decision to leave the academic community and come to industry, they have asked many questions, identified key differences, and shown themselves to be aware of the way industrial projects are managed.»

For some, the decision to follow an academic route within a government research institute is a tough one: many of my fellow earth science graduates secured high - flying, well - paid jobs in the petroleum industry before their studies were even complete.

In an informal survey of recruiters and academic scientists on hiring panels, most said that a candidate's decision to participate or not in social media wouldn't change their hiring decisions.

In announcing the union's decision in a memo to the campus community, Glassman wrote that «[t] he action by EIU's outstanding faculty and academic support professionals is a testament to their support of their colleagues and willingness to be part of the solution in the vital budget adjustments taking place on campus.»

These relationships between oncology and industry are increasing, and concerns exist regarding the extent to which financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) can influence medical decisions and physician behavior.1, 2 Thus, there is a pressing need to better understand the effects of FCOIs on both practicing oncologists and academic researchers.

These challenges require coordinated actions of political, industrial and academic decision makers.

April 18, 2008 Charis Eng, MD, PhD Delivers Lecture at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Sondra J and Stephen R Hardis Chair and Director, Genomic Medicine Institute, delivered the opening scientific lecture entitled, «Genetics - and genomics - based surgical decision - making» to the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, hosted by the Cleveland Clinic, April 17 - 20, 2008.

is to conduct and coordinate cutting - edge research engaging both NOAA and academic scientists to enable informed decisions by NOAA for sustainable and beneficial management of the northwestern Atlantic shelf ecosystem.