Sentences with phrase «on the lives of students by»

Real learning and real purpose take form through Meaningful Student Involvement, often showing immediate impacts on the lives of students by actively authorizing each of them to have powerful, purposeful opportunities to impact their own learning and the lives of others.

Not exact matches

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

Demonstrators at the March for Our Lives in Los Angeles on Saturday, one of hundreds of events nationwide led by students and activists advocating stricter gun control.

Thanks to a collaboration between Haskayne School of Business students and the Information Technologies team, the campus community can now use a new live chat feature to speak with IT Support Centre (ITSC) agents Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends and stat holidays by visiting ucalgary.ca / it.

The difference in the religious and secular students was MANY of the secular students learned life lessons by making many bad choices and considering the outcomes and effects on their life.

when 25 % of the work in the lab is done by undergrads who's main priority is partying / getting laid on the weekends, 25 % of it done by graduate students who hate their life, and 50 % done by postdocs who are barely scraping by, we can't really expect much: -LRB-.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

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.

First Principles: Natural Law and the Theologico - political Question (July 17 — 30, 2016) is a two - week seminar for advanced undergraduate and pre-dissertation graduate students, focusing on the relation between natural law and the theologico - political question, that is, the question of the best way of life, enshrined in the best laws, supported by the best form of political regime.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

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.

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

The announced purpose of the policy» to promote critical thinking by students on the subject of the origin of life» was a sham.

The value of the stipend varies by school and is based on, among other things, cost of living and travel expenses for students.

Bill Banning Corporal Punishment in Schools to Be Introduced in Congress «There are two Americas out there for young students right now — one where they go to school knowing that they'll be guided positively by caring adults, and one where they live in constant fear of getting beaten,» said Rep. McCarthy, a member of the Committee on Education and Workforce.

And because under the Perry program teachers systematically reported on a range of students» behavioral and social skills, Heckman was able to learn that students» success later in life was predicted not by their IQs but by the noncognitive skills like curiosity and self - control that the Perry program had imparted.

The 504 Plan takes its name from Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a federal law that prohibits schools that receive federal funding from excluding or otherwise discriminating against a student with a «disability» solely on the basis of that disability.6 A «disability» under Section 504 is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA) as a «physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities.»

Students will increase their knowledge of Illinois ecosystems by observing living and non-living things on the Nature Museum grounds and by evaluating how the parts of each system interact and work together.

The Foundation, which has the main mandate of attending to the welfare and prosperity of Nigerian students in all facets of their educational endeavours, was opened to the general public at an event attended by dignitaries from all walks of life on Saturday in Lagos.

Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, commiserated with the parents and families of the students, teachers and driver who lost their lives.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

More than 200 students have participated in a vacation Youth Camp organized by Values For Life (NGO) in collaboration with the Community Youth Cultural Centre under the auspices of the National Commission on Culture.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

The course also featured: a presentation by each participant for a panel that included a patent attorney, a newspaper editor, and an innovations specialist; a one - on - one consultation with Nana Lee, the course co-coordinator, a former senior scientist and director in the biotech industry who is experienced in career transitions and in dealing with life balance issues; and a presentation by U of T's Graduate Enterprise Internship program, which provides internships for students to explore opportunities in the business world.

Geographic diversity is affected by quality - of - life ratings, with increases in the percentage of first - year students from out of state for schools on the Happy Students (about 3.7 percent) and Most Beautiful Campus (about 2 percentstudents from out of state for schools on the Happy Students (about 3.7 percent) and Most Beautiful Campus (about 2 percentStudents (about 3.7 percent) and Most Beautiful Campus (about 2 percent) lists.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

Many multiplanet systems discovered by the Kepler space telescope live on the edge of stability, astrophysicist Yanqin Wu and her student Bonan Pu report online February 19 at arXiv.org.

The study, co-authored by Brian Kiessling, associate instructor and Ph.D. student within the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, focused on how people regard activity trackers, how the trackers affect behavior, and how they can be effectively integrated into programs that help people increase movement in their lives.

The episodes will be disseminated to New England high school classrooms with the help of Harvard's Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program; on the website of the Amgen Biotech Experience, a curriculum that is implemented by over 70,000 students nationally and internationally; and by leveraging the considerable PR power of Harvard and the other institutions the team visits.

«On the coevolution of life and planet habitability» by Regis Ferriere, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UofA and Ecole Normale Superieure & Antonin Affholder, grad student, School of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Building on this philosophy, Ashley teaches her students to be accountable for their bodies by building an understanding of their individual limitations and strengths and encourages students to carry over what they have learned with her into their daily lives.

Today's «day in the life» post is one of my current job, which focuses heavily on supporting my fellow faculty find and use open educational resources (an educational movement to help bring down student costs by using or creating free and high - quality texts and resources instead of expensive textbooks).

Burdened by the high cost of living and student debts, more and more people are using side hustles to earn extra income; on the other hand, attractive young women are taking things up a notch, by becoming sugar babies.

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Though obvious from start to finish - it's little more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).

Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near - death experience — giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.

«Elles,» the provocative film by Malgoska Szumowska, borders on the pornographic as it explores the life of Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper middle class journalist for «Elle» magazine, and the two student prostitutes who are the focus of her article.

We learn about Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan), a classical violinist who dreams of concert halls and protests nuclear proliferation on the side, and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle), a student of history with a home life marked by restrained chaos due to his mother's brain damage.

expands on the last chapter of the previous featurette by recounting, in Godardian fashion, the events leading up to and the aftermath of the real - life student riots that play such a pivotal role in the final few minutes of The Dreamers.

When a head injury brings him into contact with a former student turned medico Dr Janet Hartigan (played by Sarah Jessica Parker), his failure to move on emotionally after the death of his first wife is brought into sharp relief and Wetherhold must confront the unhappiness he and his family live with on a daily basis.

The film is briefly and improbably stolen by Zac Efron, in an extended cameo as a spaced - out student of life, who takes on the role of a badly hatted spirit guide to Jesse.

Coming in second in the award count was «Call Me By Your Name,» Luca Guadagnino's acclaimed adaptation of Andre Aciman's novel centered on the unexpected relationship that develops between a 17 - year - old and the 24 - year - old grad student who comes to live with his family at their villa in Northern Italy during the summer of 1983.

Yet for many of the inner - city students on his squad the requirements are hard ones to live by.

Assigned to a triple with two upperclassmen (Ben Rosenfeld and Philip Ettinger), the only other Jews living on campus not part of the Jewish fraternity, Marcus bristles as the expectation for all students to attend chapel services overseen by Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) in order to graduate.

On a moonlit gondola ride back down to town after the screening, I talked with a few young film students who seemed very much sold on — and reflected by — the film's depiction of that strange, gangly, liminal time in one's lifOn a moonlit gondola ride back down to town after the screening, I talked with a few young film students who seemed very much sold on — and reflected by — the film's depiction of that strange, gangly, liminal time in one's lifon — and reflected by — the film's depiction of that strange, gangly, liminal time in one's life.

It also follows a natural experiment we examined in which students affected by the redrawing of school attendance zone boundaries were essentially randomly assigned to schools that went on more or fewer field trips to see live performances at the Walton Arts Center.

While the research on awe is still fairly new, several studies conducted by the Greater Good Science Center's Dacher Keltner have shown that the experience of awe has the potential to turn students» lives in a new direction.