Sentences with phrase «of the academic standards of»

For example, the new common state standards for reading and mathematics were written after study of the academic standards of the world's top - achieving countries.

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Ultimately, UNC said the academic scandal fell short of its standards but did not constitute academic fraud.

Admission to the program is based on criteria that ensure high standards of academic quality and student achievement, as well as diversity.

The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

Financial industry norms and academic theories — even popular beliefs — have always assumed assets saved for retirement would be systematically withdrawn — following the «4 % rule» or some other rule of thumb or system — by retirees in order to maintain a consistent standard of living.

It is important to Micro Focus that academic institutions help their students and staff develop an in - depth understanding and knowledge of our industry standard products and solutions.

As computing infrastructures grow ever more complex, the task of finding cost effective industry standard training courses to educate the next generation of IT professionals is becoming more challenging for academic sites.

The platform, built atop the Bitcoin blockchain, will facilitate the issuance of blockchain - based academic certificates, which will complement the hard copies that are currently standard.

Many of the great Liberal Protestant teachers of the tradition in the last generation have become disillusioned by the loss of their cherished conceptions of critical inquiry, courtesy, and academic standards.

If black athletes less frequently achieve the minimal academic standard set for those participating in intercollegiate sports, then let us promulgate for them a separate, lower standard, even as we accuse of racism those suggesting the need for a standard in the first place.

Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.

The pressure of epistemological standards established by minimalistic philosophies was extremely strong at that time, and any philosopher who wanted to be treated seriously in academic circles had to take them into account.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

Winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History and of two other prestigious academic awards, Nathan Hatch's book has already become a standard reference on American religious history.

Andrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, «The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?»

Despite academic pretensions of rational discourse and objective standards, mythmaking is alive and well in American colleges and universities.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

The period which followed, initiated by well - meaning and believing administrators of the first generation, was a time of high morale, because academic standards and aspirations were on the rise, funding and prestige were up, and the residual religious atmosphere was durable enough (even somewhat more sophisticated) to reassure the reformers that the intellectual gain had been without religious loss.

Providing accreditation to colleges like Wheaton makes a mockery of whatever academic and intellectual standards the process of accreditation is supposed to uphold.

When colleagues at academic conferences marvel at the latest of my seven pregnancies, my immediate reaction — so they don't think I am the world's worst professor and colleague — is to tell them that I have never, ever taken standard maternity leave.

However, an academic study of major religious is acceptable, and is currently part of most states standard curriculum.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

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The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

Just as important, this standard curriculum eliminates theology from the core of both practical and academic studies.

One can think of many other ways in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic, ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.

The cardinal's attempt to provide biblical, patristic, medieval, and canonical arguments in favor of his proposal have been seriously criticized, in the proper academic sense of the term, by responsible scholars (the standard reference here is Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, edited by Robert Dodaro, OSA [Ignatius Press]-RRB-.

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

Faculties feel constrained by the strictly nonreligious standards of secular «academic freedom.»

I'm sorry that her academic credentials do not meet your standards, but may I also remind you that our current, sitting president had test scores that were far inferior to his other Harvard peers which begs the question of why he was admitted at all?

Here the character of Brown's argument that theological schools ought to adopt higher academic standards is particularly revealing.

Southeastern's research doctorates strive for the highest standards of academic excellence.

It maintains the same standards of academic excellence as the traditional Ph.D. while providing a delivery system designed for students currently engaged in missiological work in a North American context.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

(I owe the term to the late Arthur Fishkin, my former colleague at Creighton University, who once explained the lack of consistent academic standards as stemming from the consistent Jesuit policy of mercification.)

But schools seeking to apply both the current civil standards of academic freedom and this canon to new faculty would invite litigation.

Coming, as they often do, from families with a history of child and wife abuse, alcoholism, promiscuity, poor nutrition, a lack of discipline and low academic achievement, they find adjustment to stricter, often fundamentalist standards difficult.

The key point, however, is that if the secularized academic community can not on its own terms sustain moral standards, gain epistemological assurance or avoid the virtual deification of the human, then far more than fairness and open - mindedness is at stake in its relationship with Christians.

The new demand for rigorously educated practical theologians is not primarily a function of internal academic standards or intellectual elitism, but rather a product of dramatic changes in both ministry and church.

The program was created by a dynamic team of scientists, industry leaders, growers, and academics, and is peer - reviewed and accredited by Protected Harvest, a non-profit organization that independently certifies farmers» use of stringent environmental growing standards.

Notre Dame has not exactly been a consistent title contender, but Irish recruiting is impressive given its academic standards and lack of in - state talent.

At a school with absurdly rigorous academic demands (both in terms of admissions standards and classwork), his recruiting opportunities are limited, but he has figured out ways to recruit as well as possible.

All the while he spoke out for academic standards and ignored the blandishments of the NFL.

No mention was publicly made about scholarships and recruiting and standards, but football observers thought it entirely unlikely that Kuharich would have left a five - year contract in Washington without assurances that he would have adequate scholarships and enough «academic risk» players to produce the kind of team that the more relentless Notre Dame alumni demand.

I remember that while the fans were certainly upset over the Stallings hire, there was some intrigue with his recruiting because he had been handcuffed quite a bit by the academic standards at Vanderbilt, so there was at least a glimmer of hope that coming to an ACC school with lowered standards would help open doors to recruits he didn't have a shot at when he was at Vanderbilt.

UNC's outgoing chancellor, Holden Thorp, promises his school will improve academic standards for student athletes, the details of which will be announced in March.

After the notoriety the COF gained from this, more than 1,000 readers chimed in on Reddit posts questioning whether College of Faith schools were «diploma mills» with subpar academic standards preying on deluded athletes.

Of course it has flaws, and I agree the academic community has different standards, but I don't think he created it to inform the academic community, or have his ideas published in academic journals.

Because of the college preparatory school's academic standards, it's not easy to put together an elite sports team, Langston said.