Sentences with phrase «school commitments of»

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Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

Although poaching does happen, Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University and former board chair of ABC Life Literacy Canada, says employees feel a greater commitment to workplaces that have invested in them.

Only a couple of weeks earlier in October, Henry Kravis of KKR (KKR) made a $ 100 million commitment to Columbia Business School, a pledge thought to be the third largest gift ever handed over to a business sSchool, a pledge thought to be the third largest gift ever handed over to a business schoolschool.

Evans» $ 50 million gift is just one of many very large commitments made to business schools this year.

Personal finance is one of the most important aspects of education, but it isn't always given the same amount of time or commitment in the home or at school.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

On Thursday at the American Museum of Natural History, Regeneron made the largest single commitment the Science Talent Search (STS), the nation's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition, has ever received.

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

MAX award winners must have demonstrated service to the Haskayne School of Business; embrace the values of leadership, commitment, excellence, integrity and dedication; be an advocate of higher education; have positively influenced the lives of others, and have made significant contributions to his or her profession.

For Starbucks, the new store in Englewood and others like it form a key part of the company's long - term commitment to connect opportunity youth — 16 - 24 year olds who are out of work and school — to jobs.

Award winners have demonstrated exceptional service to the Haskayne School of Business and embrace the values of leadership, commitment, excellence, integrity and dedication; are advocates of higher education; have positively influenced the lives of others, and have made significant contributions to his or her profession.

Award recipients embrace the Haskayne School of Business values of leadership, commitment, excellence, integrity and dedication.

The Rotman School of Management and the University of Toronto are grateful to Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, and Osler LLP who have contributed generously to the development of this Program, and for their commitment to the career success of Program participants.

«Back in the day, he was the face of the school and everyone who was anyone in Calgary knew the dean and admired his commitment and leadership to building a great business school.

«Their commitment to diversifying b - school faculty will help carry on the momentum of The PhD Project, which has more than quadrupled the number of minority business professors in its 23 years.»

Its commitment to the super-project is profound, and even includes a series of slick, new, multi-language YouTube propaganda reels featuring singing children and an animated history lesson for the world's high - school students affirming the benefits of the project.

As part of its commitment to the community and the industry, Talison Lithium offers tours of the Greenbushes Lithium Operations for schools, tertiary institutions, special interest groups and seniors in Western Australia.

The focus on finding jobs for youth is an extension of Starbucks global commitment to hiring Opportunity Youth — those between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren't in school and aren't working.

Mr. Garrity's legal experience, his love of the arts, and his commitment to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have prepared him to lead Shine MDS, Inc., and face the challenges of a community in need of healing.

With an active commitment to service, Jennifer is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Castilleja School and is Chairman of the Board of the Somaly Mam Foundation.

Still, the takeover sends a message to directors of other companies that their jobs are in jeopardy if they lose sight of their commitment to shareholders, said B. Espen Eckbo, the founding director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

After a series of changes this summer, for the first time, the nation's top - notch high school football prospects will no longer have to wait until February to formalize their commitments and sign with their preferred schools.

Eight local Edward Jones Financial Advisors teamed up on behalf of school children, clearly demonstrating their commitment to family values.

These are schools who say they are «Christ - centered» and who believe in the «essentials of the faith» but who gather not to discuss theology but to help one another along in their commitment to Christian higher education.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

Perhaps we would do well to learn from Augustine to think of the family as a school of virtue, or from I John of the family as a sphere in which we learn the meaning of commitment to a few and begin to learn the steps of the greater dance of love.

As a result, parents would be able to pass on their moral commitments through schools of their choice.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

A school's commitment to a particular theological tradition, sometimes symbolized by required subscription to a confessional statement, might be taken to mean a commitment to specifiable boundaries to what questions may be explored and what range of answers to those questions may be critically examined.

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

The school might reasonably say that this is not under their control: much depends on the commitment of the parents.

It has now been published in three volumes by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht: (1) First Light: The Formation of Harvard College in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters in Cambridge; (2) The «Augustan Age»: Religion in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School; and (3) Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm: The Contours of Religion and Commitment in an Age of Upheaval and Globalization.

Thus there were two quite distinct styles of religious instruction on the campuses: disinterested, non-normative studies, conducted in a regular academic department, and ministerial studies based on an assumption of shared commitment, in marginal divinity schools.

Beyond the obvious question of how well the school actually can assess relevant background knowledge and experience is the fact that the system does not take into account other worthy commitments in a student's life, like work or ministry responsibilities outside the school.

And to win the support of educators who do not share the neoconservative commitment to educational reform rooted largely, if not exclusively, in Western traditions, he argues that in pluralistic America, if schools do their job there can indeed be one cultural vocabulary.

Persons more committed than Mann and Barnard to the civil religion can not be found, but plenty of persons in the public school movement shared their commitment.

In spite of the many people who still attend church school, parochial school, church, and synagogue, the results in terms of articulateness as well as commitment are unsatisfactory.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

Sunday school rooms all around spilled into a sanctuary where pews were arranged on either side of a central aisle that led to a pulpit and an altar — for to us education led to worship, and worship to public confession and commitment.

A pastor who ignores the Sunday School runs the risk of letting the Sunday School form the faith commitments of members.

Children from the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie lit candles — one for each of those who had died and a moving Act of Remembrance and Commitment was led by the Bishop of Southwark, The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, together with representatives of the faith communities.

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

It is therefore the more disappointing that in this case the divinity school went with the flow, failing to ask the hard questions about the founding commitment of the university.

But within the context of such a forthright commitment, the school would be open to students of all religions or none, to interfaith relationships and to freedom for academic exploration and inquiry.

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.

The Inner Mission endeavored to bring nominal Christians to a full commitment and gave rise to prayer houses and folk schools for the quickening and nourishing of the faith.