Sentences with phrase «year liberal studies»

Nicholas Bazinet is a first - year liberal studies student at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) in Bangor.

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Carrie Bohlig started selling Amway products just before college graduation nearly 10 years ago as a backup plan to go with her liberal studies degree.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

To become a physician one studied for thirty - two months in the faculty of liberal arts and an additional five and a half years in the school of medicine.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

In the years following, Sunbridge College's offerings grew, eventually encompassing numerous full - and part - time certificate and degree programs and courses in Waldorf Teacher Education, Biography and Social Art, Liberal Studies, Remedial Education (now the Association for a Healing Education), Waldorf Administration and Community Development, Applied Arts (now the Fiber Craft Studio) and other affiliated fields.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently described, the Conservatives» plans for public spending from this year onwards would make it the «tightest five - year period since (at least) World War Two» whilst Liberal Democrat and Labour plans would see the «tightest four - year period since April 1976».

Varley was in his second year at Hull University studying law and came third behind Labour's Roberta Blackman - Woods and Liberal Democrats» Carol Woods.

Last year the Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams ordered a review into the body that supports the development of Welsh - medium provision within higher education, enabling more students to study a variety of subjects through the medium of Welsh.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

The study investigated the changes experienced by adult learners participating in liberal adult education courses during a course of one year.

The first step toward its defeat must be, as the Committee of Ten recognized more than 110 years ago, having all high - school students follow an intellectually rich liberal arts course of study.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

She's the coordinator of our liberal studies program and has been helping students pursue growth and advancement for more than 26 years.

Bard High School Early Colleges are four - year public schools that provide students with a two - year, tuition - free college course of study in the liberal arts and sciences following the 9th and 10th grades.

To accomplish this, the college offers both two and four year degrees in creative writing, Indigenous liberal studies, museum studies, new media arts, and studio arts.

In addition to being the director of the Jessica Park Project, Tony Gengarelly, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of art history and museum studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where he taught for over forty years.

While Black Mountain College was a year - round liberal arts college offering a general course of study, Black Mountain School's month - long session focuses mostly on studio art practice.

JCU is an independent, 4 - year liberal arts university offering undergraduate degrees and study abroad programs to English speakers from all over the world.

I know figures like Naomi Klein, as well as a wide array of Green Parties and advocates of both liberal and more explicitly socialist versions of «the Green New Deal» have been anchoring their arguments for 100 % renewable by 2050 on studies like the Jacobsen et al. one for the last couple of years.

As for characterizing global warming as simply a «liberal cause»: In a now famous study finding that 97 percent of scientific studies (that bother to take a position on the matter) agree with the idea of human - caused global warming, researchers reviewed 12,000 scientific abstracts published between the years 1991 and 2011.

One - Year Study Abroad Program, School of International Liberal Studies; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (July 2007)

Merritt sees these challenges as potential opportunities to restructure legal education, proposing a first year of legal study into an undergraduate liberal arts major, and retaining a two - year upper - level curriculum.

She graduated with a B.A. in liberal studies from Cal State Hayward and began her insurance career in the year 2000.

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Relational Health Indices (RHI) with a group of 450 first year and senior students at a women's liberal arts college.

In addition to a Master of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution from Creighton School of Law, and a Master of Liberal Studies from Arizona State University, I bring to the table a B.S. in Accounting and 30 plus years of accounting experience.