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Colleges and universities in Tennessee, California, and some other states are working with their K - 12 counterparts to get ready for the Common Core, and more than 200 college and university leaders last month announced a new group to support the Common Core, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards.

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Yale University's Chief Executive Leadership Institute surveyed 87 corporate leaders last week on aspects of the economy and politics, from the U.S. tax bill to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Former Premier Ed Stelmach, former Finance Minister Shirley McClellan, former Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, and former provincial Liberal leader Kevin Taft tackled the tax dilemma facing Alberta's finances last weekend at the University of Alberta.

After speaking at Liberty University last week, Trump scored an important endorsement from Jerry Falwell Jr., a prominent leader of the Religious Right who, to the applause of thousands, compared Trump to Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr..

Last night, author, speaker and activist Shane Claiborne took to social media to explain how an invitation to pray with leaders at Liberty University — the country's largest Christian university — lUniversity — the country's largest Christian university — luniversity — led to a...

The SBC conversation comes just days before The Civilitas Group, a year - old coalition of pastors, university presidents, journalists, and ministry leaders, will meet in Charleston to commemorate the shooting of nine members of «Mother Emmanuel» AME Church last year.

Over the last two decades, university leaders have redefined the mission of these schools.

Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Ghana & Team Leader, Law and Development Associates INTRODUCTION In my first article published last week, I promised to continue to provide you, my readers, with more down - to - earth interpretations of the «Law».

Last year, for example, he blasted a decision by the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health to invite controversial American leader Linda Sarsour to be a graduation speaker, charging her with anti-Semitism.

PHOTO: Last night in University Heights, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. handed out turkeys with District Leader Hector Ramirez.

Anu Suomalainen - Wartiovaara became a group leader and Academy of Finland research fellow at Helsinki University last year.

Although we've heard these worrisome warnings many times before from congressional friends of science, research leaders, and university lobbyists, Congress has always scraped up needed cash at the last minute in previous years.

Many of Iran's science policy leaders and university faculty members were educated in the United States or Europe, and 5600 young Iranian scientists last year had student visas to live in the United States while studying in non-sensitive fields.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

To address this concern, the council, which advises the U.K. government on science and technology issues, recommended last month that universities, industry leaders, and funding agencies develop a national framework for research careers — a conceptual flow chart that describes paths researchers can and do take.

Last March, a group of women leaders came together at the Cathedral Hotel in San Francisco to discuss issues surrounding professional women in university settings.

On the heels of a damaging laboratory outbreak that sickened 27 students, leaders at China's Northeast Agricultural University last week dismissed two administrators, apologized for insufficient safety practices, and offered thousands of dollars in compensation to the students, who contracted brucellosis while dissecting goats in an anatomy course last December.

Current holders of a RCDF — SFI HRB Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership, a Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellowship are eligible to apply to the SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders programme in the last 24 months of their award (providing all other eligibility criteria are met).

Last my travels took me to Wisconsin where at first, I met Imogen Hurley, PhD, and the PDA leaders at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and then Julie Tetzlaff, PhD, and her team at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Last fall, I presented our Digital Generation project at a conference in Hangzhou, China, organized by professor Michael Searson from Kean University, a leader in providing teachers - in - training with global perspectives, curricula, and study abroad.

President Bush included business leaders, university presidents, union and association leaders, policy analysts, and a public - school teacher, among others, on his 24 - member education - policy advisory committee, established last fall to provide him with innovative ideas.

Among the higher education leaders who convened in Cambridge last summer for IEM was Lori Reesor, the vice president for student affairs at the University of North Dakota.

Approved by the state board of education last month, the rule is meant to prompt changes in Maryland universities that train school leaders, said Mary Cary, an assistant superintendent in the state department of education.

Amidst the summer lull, I've spent a bunch of time over the last month or two talking about «cage - busting» to school and system leaders in a bunch of districts, state gatherings, and university programs.

In what's being pitched as a national model, state officials last week picked the University of Virginia to run a training program that will let an experienced school leader earn a credential as a «turnaround specialist.»

College and university presidents can play an integral role in improving teacher - preparation programs by investing in them philosophically and asking their faculties to do the same, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley told higher education leaders last week.

Last year, leaders of the state's public universities and community colleges agreed to waive placement tests for students who scored 3 or 4 on the Smarter Balanced test in English language arts and math in order to help bridge the gap between high school and higher education.

Last September I took on the role of Joint Programme Leader for the Digital Animation and Games Programme at the University of Hertfordshire.

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New York — African and global tourism leaders gathered at New York University last Tuesday, September 20, 2011, to discuss the need to raise the profile of travel and tourism on Africa's political and economic agendas and to establish networks of collaboration to raise Africa's tourism profile on the global tourism stage.

Professor Adrian Luckman, a scientist at Swansea University and leader of the UK's Midas project, said in a statement: «After a few months of steady, incremental advance since the last event, the rift grew suddenly by a further 18 km during the second half of December 2016.

«That would literally double the number of excess deaths over the next hottest summer in the last 40 years in New York,» said study leader Laurence Kalkstein, senior research fellow at the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research.