Sentences with phrase «year tenure focused»

David S. Ruder's two - year tenure focused on restoring confidence after the 1987 crash.

Not exact matches

He found his focus at Blacksburg's Virginia Polytechnical Institute, earning a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and landing a tenured teaching slot in three years — a college record.

Thus for the first five years of Morrison's tenure, the Century was a focus of controversy.

The school's mission has changed and the focus on academics has gotten slightly lost over the years under Kaloyeros» tenure, said UUP's Kowal, who agreed that the university president should be based in Utica.

«During her eight year tenure as Southampton Town Supervisor, Anna established herself as a no - nonsense executive who reached across the aisle to cut wasteful spending, audit the budget, and eliminate inefficiencies so taxpayer dollars could be focused where they were needed most,» Cuomo said.

Pataki, a moderate Republican, made environmental issues — and land acquistion in the Adirondacks in particular — a focus of his 12 - year tenure, so much so that he was sometimes referred to as the «green» governor — a nickname his administration encouraged.

Carnright attributed his victory to a campaign which focused on his accomplishments during his four - year tenure as DA.

Cuomo's cash dash is also coming as he faces a more turbulent time than he has in the past two years, and as national media is beginning to focus on his tenure.

Thousands of experienced colleagues have worked side - by - side with Bob to develop and deliver M&T's successful community - focused approach, including a Management Committee comprised of members with an average tenure of 24 years at M&T.»

The plea capped a controversial four year tenure in Congress, most of which Grimm spent under the shadow of a federal investigation initially focused on allegations of illegal fundraising in his 2010 campaign.

Elia has pledged to be laser - focused on struggling schools during the first year of her tenure, and almost immediately introduced the idea of state receivership for schools around the state that fail to improve over the next year or, in some cases, two years.

After a year of effort to draw attention to the inconsistent votes, flip - flops on issues, and contradictions in public statements that have been the signature of the tenure of Rep. Richard Hanna, Conservative Republican Michael Vasquez will be stepping aside to allow a focused and unified effort to unseat the self admitted Moderate.

After a year focused on teaching general chemistry, she moved into a tenure - track position in the same department.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

Only after a few years of stripped - down tenure and evaluations focused on performance, and after a few locales craft some promising approaches, will it make sense for state legislatures to wade in more aggressively.

During his six year tenure, the district raised student achievement by elevating academic standards, aligning the curriculum and focusing on principal leadership and teachers» quality of instruction.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

The Baltimore city school board approved a four - year - contract Tuesday for the new superintendent Sonja Santelises, ushering in what many hope will be a renewed focus on academics after the troubled tenure of her predecessor.

Last year the group primarily focused on supporting Mayor Bloomberg's effort to destroy tenure in the New York City Schools, writing, «We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to make tenure decisions more meaningful.»

While Malloy and his supporters focused on his so - called «apology» for claiming teachers need only show up for four years to get tenure, he never publicly said his anti-tenure, anti-collective bargaining position was a mistake.

During his tenure, José focused on community engagement and implementing progressive, lifesaving adoption, rescue and volunteer programs to increase live outcomes and decrease intake, which has declined to 18,000 pets per year.

During his 17 year tenure, Austin founded the museum's collection of European paintings, focusing particularly on the baroque field, and acquired masterpieces by leading modernists.

During his initial 12 - year tenure as Curator of Photography at the LACMA (1992 - 2004), Mr. Wride curated over twenty - five permanent collection focus exhibitions as well as numerous larger exhibitions including: «Retail Fictions: the Commercial Photography of Ralph Bartholomew» (1997); «Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution» (2001); «Donald Blumberg» (2002); and «Trajectories: The Photographic Work of Robbert Flick» (2004).

Sossin's vision as a dean was a law school that should be outwardly focused, with physical manifestations such as the «floor - to - ceiling» windows in its new building that opened in 2011, a year into his tenure as dean, as well as many initiatives that encouraged law students to engage with their community.

Your objective should be written entirely in the third person, without «I» or any other personal identifiers Here are two examples: «Seeking to bring history in community organization to tenure - track position at university with a diverse student population; focus on social justice,» and «Seeking to bring 15 years in financial counseling to a major banking company; focus on conflict resolution and customer retention.»

The preservation of traditional lands in ultimately inalienable form for the use and enjoyment of future generations is still an important principle of Indigenous land tenure, as recognised by the first and second NIC Principles.136 There has been a strong policy focus over more than thirty years on Indigenous people gaining traditional land, having the right to manage it in accordance with Indigenous tradition, and being able to make decisions about land use in accordance with traditional decision - making processes.