Sentences with phrase «with nonacademic»

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

Not exact matches

A remarkable flourishing of spiritualities has combined thoughtfulness with passion, often by women who also write in other genres (academic and nonacademic), such as Loades, Soskice, Grey, Coakley, Hampson, Jantzen, Ursula King (a German teaching in Bristol), Sarah Maitland, Monica Furlong and Elizabeth Stuart.

There are some parallels with other nonacademic American poets — William Carlos Williams, for instance, who practiced medicine and delivered thousands of New Jersey babies while writing the American epic Paterson.

With the exception of the program at New York Theological Seminary, all the organizations participating were founded and are directed by people involved in ministry outside the academy (and even NYTS requires its professors to engage in nonacademic ministry).

At the same time, officials around the nation have been trying to figure out how to respond to the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in December 2015 and requires each state to come up with its own accountability system that must include at least one nonacademic measure.

Ph.D. s hoping to find nonacademic careers — a group that, in the long run, comprises the overwhelming majority of doctorate recipients — must navigate the transition to industry or government, often with only minimal help from their professors and institutions.

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

Some years ago, a Ph.D. holder with a successful nonacademic career told me how her postdoc supervisor gave her permission to leave the lab.

Computer science also seems healthy, with a relative few finding work in academia but a very good faculty - to - postdoc ratio, suggesting that Ph.D. computer science graduates have very strong nonacademic career prospects.

The program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

They've also developed online resources to address five categories of skills to succeed in academia or nonacademic organizations: personal motivation, creating opportunities, working with people, influencing change, and understanding commercial context.

The areas with the most nonacademic scientists of a particular type are also those with the largest number of jobs in the field.

And those female Ph.D. scientists with small children — the scientists least likely to get tenure - track positions — «are disproportionately likely to be employed in contingent professorships and are less likely to be working in nonacademic jobs.»

is run jointly with the University of Edinburgh, because, as a nonacademic institution, the RBGE can not award degrees.

Knowing how your own personal goals mesh with the job you're applying for is crucial in any line of work, the nonacademics insist.

Parents on lisdexamfetamine spoke less than parents on placebo during the homework task, with no differences during the non-academic task; they were less demanding than parents on placebo during the nonacademic task, with no differences during the homework task.

With different effects being seen in the homework versus the nonacademic tasks, it appears that ADHD medication may improve adults» capacity to adjust their parenting behaviors to the task at hand.

Well - qualified and savvy Ph.D. scientists could very likely land substantially more lucrative offers on their own, but the program serves a useful purpose by aiming to ease the way to a first industrial position for scientists unfamiliar with or intimidated by the nonacademic job market.

On Aug. 24, the women, all of whom work in nonacademic positions, filed individual charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; the same charges were also filed by the union with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars job discrimination on...

In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Moreover, it seems clear that there are nonacademic benefits that may be quantifiable in the future, as the model spreads and becomes integrated with other initiatives, such as violence and gang prevention in Chicago.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Under the influence of progressive educators, the curriculum was filled with watered - down and nonacademic courses.

Risk charged the larger society with the sin of burdening schools with so many nonacademic responsibilities.

The governing body of each school district and BOCES shall ensure that the performance of all teachers providing instructional services or pupil personnel services, as defined in section 80 - 1.1 of this Title, is reviewed annually in accordance with this subdivision, except evening school teachers of adults enrolled in nonacademic, vocational subjects; and supplementary school personnel, as defined in section 80 - 5.6 of this Title, and any classroom teacher subject to the evaluation requirements prescribed in Subparts 30 - 2 and 30 - 3 of this Title.

The research is inconclusive; many countries with top - performing high - school students provide rich play - based, nonacademic experiences — not standardized instruction — until age six or seven.

In that job, I was often confronted by the glaring disconnect between my school's academic priorities — I was charged with preparing students for the New York Global Studies Regents exam — and my students» nonacademic needs.

«My hope, as states grapple with ESSA, is that they think about sustainable school improvement efforts which integrate and support academic and the so - called nonacademic aspects of student learning,» Cohen says.

Establish a norm that there is no such thing as a «nonacademic» class in school and that every subject, including the arts, is worthy of the thought and discipline that we associate with academic study.

«The Board is pleased with the new School Improvement Framework, as it incorporates both academic and nonacademic school quality and student success measures to create a more holistic view of a school's environment for students,» Kevin Laverty, chair of the state board, said in a statement.

Together, the districts created their own set of student performance standards based on academic and nonacademic qualities; grit and tenacity will factor in, along with state exams and other non-state tests.

To track both academic and nonacademic data, teachers and students continuously update digital learner profiles that move with students as they progress through grades within the school system.

Having clearly defined indicators will help states comply with this requirement so that nonacademic indicators don't mask low performance on academic outcome measures.

It does not mean eliminating measurement of academic attainment and growth; it means coupling those with rigorous, reliable and valid indicators of school organization and other nonacademic factors.

In collaboration with the Consortium, UChicago Impact, the Urban Education Institute's innovation arm, developed the 5Essentials system, which is composed of surveys, reports, and training supports that states, districts, and schools can use to track progress on the nonacademic factors proven to drive school success.

Community schools purposefully partner with youth organizations, health clinics, social service agencies, food banks, higher education institutions, businesses, and others to meet students» and families» academic and nonacademic needs, so teachers are free to teach and students are ready to learn.

In her conversations with 65 students across the United States, the author got a clear idea of what high school students need to become engaged in their schools: a voice in determining course offerings; academic courses that relate to things they care about; respect for their nonacademic interests; inspiring role models; and opportunities to connect with the community.

Balancing the needs of these children against the mandate to educate and now to meet academic standards set by state agencies is a formidable task, and schools are finding their curricula bulging with special units on what are sometimes seen as nonacademic and irrelevant frills — social skills training, anger management, conflict resolution, and safe sex, to name a few.

Compared with their peers, participating students also significantly improved on five key nonacademic measures: They demonstrated greater social skills, less emotional stress and better attitudes, fewer conduct problems such as bullying and suspensions, and more - frequent positive behaviors, such as cooperation and help for other students.