Sentences with phrase «what academic professors»

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What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

All of this occurs, of course, in the name of academic freedom, the guarantee that professors will not be sanctioned for the substance of what they write and teach.

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.»

Because academics so often fear (with good reason) deviating from what senior professors and administrators want, it took a senior administrator lobbying for changes to make family leave part of the normal routine of academic life.

And in conforming to mainstream academic tenure standards, is BYU losing talented professors who are best equipped to prepare students to consider changing moral foundations, but lack professionally accepted venues through which to publish what they teach and study?

Ever since Professor Woodrow Wilson laid it down as an article of Progressive faith that the (original) Constitution was inadequate to the tasks of modern governance, academic scriveners have leveled whole forests to conform its provisions with what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once called the «felt necessities» of the times.

The Academic Minute features professors from top institutions around the country, delving into topics from the serious to the light - hearted, keeping listeners abreast of what's new and exciting in the academy.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Alongside an interdisciplinary research team, made up of academics from across the UK, BU's Professor Adele Ladkin has investigated the consequences of mobile working and what it means for family life.

The main event is an annual meeting, bringing together companies and academics with an interest in skin research but the Skin Forum also makes sure that it keeps abreast of current thinking and that research is aimed at something applicable and useful: «We commissioned a survey that was sent out to both pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to see what areas of skin research were thought to be most relevant and should be covered in grant applications,» says Professor Hadgraft.

We provide initial insights into two critical issues: what clinical value can be extracted from different commercial and academic cancer genomic platforms, and how to think about scaling access to that value,» noted the study's Principal Investigator, Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University and Founding Director of the New York Genome Center.

«We were able to recapitulate in a petri dish what we had seen in the patient,» says co-author Peter Fischbach, MD, chief academic officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Sibley Heart Center and associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Data Wise: A Step - by - step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Academic Dean and Thompson Professor Richard Murnane, Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett, and doctoral student Elizabeth A City, provides a solid blueprint of what to do with the increasing quantitative information educators face.

Robert Rosenthal, Professor Emeritus at Harvard and an expert in the technique of meta - analysis, calls the study, «A truly scholarly and scientific look at what is known about the effects of arts study on academic achievement... a major achievement.»

«It was her who encouraged me to pursue what I am truly interested in, who helped me altruistically with my academic learning and who introduced me to lectures, activities, and professors in Harvard,» says Fang Jia, of Lesley University.

Extensive research by education academic Professor John Hattie has over time revealed what works best in maximising student learning.

She told board members she's worried the panel reviewing the state's academic standards has too many professors of math education and too few professors of mathematics, who she says are in a better position to say what skills students need to be ready for college - level coursework.

Our highly professional and thoroughly experienced staff of academic writers can take over your project entirely, and offer services that transform your troublesome paper into an ideal example of what your professor wants to see.

EMH is believed in by almost all academics — whether finance professors or economists and probably by most mutual fund managers — almost all of whom sign off on what is called MCT.

Besides the «teaching point» recently reported here on RC yet again by yours truly, in my refs / urls to the expert Professor Philip Mirowski irl teaching academic students and post-grads what the Neoliberal Thought Collective already KNOW and actually say and write and believe:

His opinions are not what we should expect from s science professor and do not deserve academic equivalency to those of Dr Curry.

Universities and professors, funded by fossil fuel and utility special interests, are increasingly producing academic reports, supporting advocacy efforts, and amplifying positions that either recommend policies or provide credence to what the energy industry seeks to achieve in the legislative and regulatory arenas.

All of this occurs, of course, in the name of academic freedom, the guarantee that professors will not be sanctioned for the substance of what they write and teach.

Be sure to do what works for you, but know that there are many techniques to try and, in the end, do not be afraid to ask for help from friends, academic advisors and professors — they will be there for you.

Never voiced until now, was my firm belief that what was under attack was the most essential privilege that I gained with my tenure as a law professor in 2001 — my academic freedom.

I can understand that some of the usually vocal George Mason professors might be inhibited from comment given that their employer is involved, but as Mike points out, what about other academics?

An example I like to use when explaining KM to law students is to imagine the following scenario (of course keeping in mind prohibitions against academic plagiarism): What if at law school you had easy (online) access to every course summary, your professor's notes and slides, past exams and model form answers, all essays written by all law students organized by topic and course, etc..

That said, I also doubt that argument fundamentally based on the academic freedom of professors to teach what they want is likely to sway the Law Societies that make up the Federation away from their fascination with standardizing curriculum in as many areas as possible.

Take a campus tour, and if you know what you plan to major in, try to schedule a meeting with a professor who works in your academic field of choice

But what his fellow academics didn't know until Kogan revealed it in emails to the Observer (although Cambridge University says that Kogan told the head of the psychology department), is that he is also an associate professor at St Petersburg University.