Sentences with phrase «public universities position»

It explores how public universities position themselves as institutional actors globally, regionally and nationally; and how South African and international students experience the competing imperatives shaping higher education policy and practice.

Not exact matches

As an attorney who moved into the public policy and government and now as a university president (all positions in fields dominated by men), I have faced challenges while working my way up.

«The welfare ministry is in a difficult position — it will not and can not say, «public pensions are in trouble and you won't be receiving much,»» said Hideyuki Morito, a member of a government panel on pensions and professor of law at Keio University.

And even if Canadian courts ultimately deem such probing too onerous within the rubric of «reasonableness» review, such details can provide fodder for public commentary that can undermine the government's position in the court of public opinion (regarding the economic case for increased oil sands production, for example, see University of Alberta Professor Andrew Leach's commentary here).

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

Additionally, Ms. Bazán served as a community advocate before the North Carolina General Assembly for several years and held positions at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Prior to her position at Region 4, Jill worked for the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health from 2000 - 2002 as the Nutrition Coordinator for the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) project.

Following this position, Christina moved to Atlanta to complete her Master of Public Health in Nutrition, with a certificate in Maternal and Child Health and a focus on adolescent health at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

The plan will impact nearly all positions at Long Island's largest public research university that are funded by the state budget.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, «Governor Cuomo has positioned New York and its public university system to lead the world in nanotechnology innovation that is creating jobs and fueling our economy.

Hillary Clinton's campaign announced plans to eliminate college tuition at in - state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes under $ 125,000 — a significant nod to a core position of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.

«He ensured that I was not cheated out by the exclusion of my name from the LLB class list at the Faculty of Law after my first university exams when I had qualified for placement on the programme by merit... His actions almost 43 years ago contributed in no small measure to my position, my passion for the defence of truth, fairness, integrity, transparency and merit in public life, and he must be publicly acknowledged for once.»

Miner, who this week begins a spring semester teaching positions at the pring semester as a «visiting distinguished urbanist» at the New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, said Sunday she is still considering options for her political future, including a possible Democratic primary challenge this year against Cuomo or a run for Congress.

Furthermore, few permanent positions in universities and public research centres have become vacant in the last decade, the legacy of mass - hirings in the 1970s and 1980s.

• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).

A little more than a decade ago, postdocs were rare in France, in part because the traditional mode of recruitment at universities and public research organizations allowed researchers to get permanent positions at a much younger age than in most other countries.

In France, universities and public research organizations have long employed scientists in permanent positions through civil service contracts that must be won in nationwide, annual competitions.

Earlier this week, more than 300 UC scientists criticized the proposed cuts to UC in a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 legislators, arguing that UC risks losing its position as a premier public university and its ability to train the science and technology workforce needed to spur economic growth.

The study team — which also included Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego — used public records to reconstruct the careers of 10,004 elite life scientists in the United States from the moment they earned their first independent position until 2006.

Herman Lelieveldt holds a postdoc position in the Faculty of Business, Public Administration, and Technology of the University of Twente and is the executive director of the Netherlands Institute of Government.

«A young researcher is lucky to get an academic position,» says Bob Nelson, public affairs officer for Columbia University, «two is definitely unheard of.»

And most universities fail to make these distinctions clear in «public - facing profiles,» the authors observe, which «exacerbate [s]» postdocs» optimistic tendency to assume that the term «professor» always means a traditional tenure - track position, when it often denotes a job with much less security.

Former Fellows have continued careers in public service, as well as the nonprofit and private sectors, holding senior positions in government, industry, universities, foundations, and non-governmental organizations.

With tenured positions and funding being scarce in the French universities and public research organisations, university graduates are the ones who most often lose out.

She received her PhD from The Ohio State University in May 1997, subsequently serving in a number of different positions from a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics from 1997 - 2000, to a position at the National Academy of Sciences as a program officer with the Office on Public Understanding of Science from 2001 - 2003 to a Program Planning Specialist position at NASA Headquarters, culminating in a position at Goddard Spaceflight Center as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for the Astrophysics Science Division.

Graduates find careers in a range of private, public and academic positions, which include consulting firms; state and federal health and environmental regulatory agencies; product safety evaluation organizations; chemical, consumer products, pharmaceutical industries; and major universities.

These and other questions were addressed by Harold Varmus, whose career in research science and public service has led him from a laboratory at University of California, San Francisco to the positions of director of the National Institutes of Health, the president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the director of the National Cancer Institute.

Many of the positions are with Chicago Public Schools, at local colleges and universities, and at various education - focused organizations.

But first, my life would take a sudden and unexpected turn after Bob Peterkin made a stunning announcement that he was leaving his job as Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent at the end of his contract in June 1991 to take a position at Harvard University.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Prior to her most recent position as New Mexico's education Chief, Secretary Skandera's record of service in the education sector includes serving as Florida's Deputy Commissioner of Education for former Governor Jeb Bush, senior policy advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education under former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Undersecretary for Education for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to teaching Education Policy courses at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

This is the result of an academic arms race in the state, in which the public university system «has increasingly raised the demands for admission so students across the broad system are looking to see how they can position themselves competitively for that system.»

Prior to his role at College Success Arizona, Daniel served for more than 20 years in senior leadership positions at public research universities and community colleges.

Graduates of our programs become engaged in academic and research careers in university programs, research organizations, or public agencies; or in administrative positions in school systems, educational centers, or national, regional, and state agencies; or in teacher education, professional development and curriculum positions in local and state systems and educational companies and organizations.

He has served in educational leadership or research positions in private industry, in an urban public school district, in a state department of education, and at the university level.

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

His career also included classroom teaching in public schools, leadership positions in state agencies, and research and administrative positions in the national career and technical education center at The Ohio State University.

That would be smart: three years ago the New Jersey Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Don accepted a position as principal in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and under his leadership, his school was rated one of the top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

He was working on his master's in education administration at The University of Texas, planning to do the internship for a year, then finish up his degree and look for a leadership position in a Texas public school district.

as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

David also held senior level positions at several communications firms including Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and Porter Novelli International, and taught communications courses at Georgetown University.

Contending that a Rutgers professor and public schools advocate has used her position, title and state university resources to wage a personally driven campaign against them, a group representing the state's charter schools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-founder.

Matt brings a breadth of professional expertise in both law and the education realm including positions at The University of Michigan Law School, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Alliance College Ready Public Schools and Public Policy Charter School.

Graduates assume positions of leadership in colleges, universities, agencies, businesses, government entities, and public and private schools.

Graduates of the program will take key positions in corporations and private and public universities and schools; they will become designers, developers, and evaluators of educational technologies and learning environments as well as domain experts, learning technology policy - makers, or Chief Learning Officers.

Along with her library services supervisor position for Newport News Public Schools, Keeling also teaches as an adjunct professor for Old Dominion University.

The St. John's University School of Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) provides financial assistance to qualified Law School graduates who work in public interest or government positions.