COMMENTARY: DAVID COPPOLA AND SARAH KEATING Lifestyle, liberty … and …
COMMENTARY: DAVID COPPOLA AND SARAH KEATING Life, liberty … and …
Although it is difficult for those of us working in college admissions to imagine that a student would be accepted based solely on a non-academic factor, the increased level of scrutiny spurred by this decision may help clarify what colleges and …
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A native of Lee's Summitt, Mo., Piepergerdes finished her playing career on the Pirate volleyball team in the fall of 2012 after three seasons with Armstrong. A three-time PBC Presidential Honor Roll member, the mathematics major played in 22 matches …
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Diploma Disaster?
Indeed, 60 percent of the increased college graduate population between 1992 and 2008 ended up in these lower skill jobs, raising real questions about the desirability of pushing to increase the proportion of Americans attending and graduating from …
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Frederick guy 'blessed' to flip troubled previous into greater path
Frederick man 'blessed' to turn troubled past into better path
His history of alcohol abuse and frequent run-ins with the law for assaults, drugs and DWIs kept him from graduating from Frederick High School and holding a steady job. … I just can't believe how far I went," he said Thursday during an emotional …
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Job Interviews At Resident' Evil's Umbrella Corporation Would Be Weird
Oh, it's not called Umberella but anyone who's been around video games for the last 20 17 years knows where this job interview is happening. Sparsely scattered bullets? Illegal genetic experiments? Parasol, indeed. If you've played Resident Evil — or …
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In the kitchen with… Marco Pierre White
But I also remember going for a job interview in 1984 with Raymond Blanc and every mouthful of that lunch has stayed with me – it included pigeon and ended with an amazing apple souffle. Oh, and I got the job. What's your top tip for amateur chefs?
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No blurred lines in Robin Thicke's summer hit
This is very intentional and they do it most of the time; they are in the power position." Who knew there was a glass ceiling in … In an interview with GQ magazine, Thicke said of his and his co-writer's inspiration: "We were like, 'We're the perfect …
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Winn Dixie Job Fair Draws Hundreds
For many of the applicants, it wasn't their first job interview. "It's been really tough. Everyone says they're hiring. I've been putting in applications left and right, but no one has called me back", said Aubrianna Wright who has been looking for a …
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Ray Horton talks expectations and the philosophy of the Cleveland Browns' 3-4 …
Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton previews training camp Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton addresses a range of topics in a pre-camp interview, including Barkevious Mingo's development and camp surprise Craig Robertson. Print · Terry Pluto …
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Measuring Good quality and Peformance: What Counts?
I recognize the importance of looking at higher education critically to determine what impact the experience has on individuals and societies but we seem to repeatedly resort to the same fallback strategies of “counting what can be counted.”
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Legacy of Newtown: New Communities for Mental Health
It also should take the social isolation of the perpetrators of the Columbine and Boston Marathon tragedies to get us thinking about how, in our "bowling alone" culture, our faith-based communities can be more welcoming and inclusive to those coping …
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Rewriting our own Notion of Peace
I am a PhD student in Public International Law from the Sorbonne University and I formerly worked as a Research Officer at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Paris. I currently write as a columnist, for the local newspaper Ceylon Today on …. In the longer …
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Jamie Bartram, PhD, “Mr. Water”
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Bartram was the University Day distinguished speaker this year (2012) in honor of UNC’s Water Institute, which you can read about here:
www.waterinstitute.unc.edu/newsletter20120917
The institute seeks to increase awareness of the critical importance of fresh water to human health in all parts of our world. Bartram was a wonderful and inspiring speaker.
Turn off that tap!!
Conserve, even if you "don’t have to pay for it". My water, for example, comes from a well and is "free". But no water is really free, and it behooves each of us to do our part to conserve that which exists on earth.
To my British friends: Dr. Bartram comes to us from good old England, Surrey, mainly. It was a big step, he says, but he’s happy in Chapel Hill!
Chinese Offshore Branch Campuses: China’s Most recent Exports
China’s education development plan for 2010-20 assures funding and improvements to higher education quality, research, and internationalization, strengthening its competitive edge in the global higher education market that has been dominated traditionally by Western countries.
Journey “Full of Journey, Total of Discovery” Prospects Bowen to Nationwide …
Journey “Full of Adventure, Full of Discovery” Leads Bowen to National …
Born in Cincinnati, Mr. Bowen completed his college degree at Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1955 and earned his PhD in economics at Princeton only three years later. He joined the Princeton faculty as a labor economist, becoming a full …
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Scientists Discover Reality Consists Of 9 Dimensions, Not Just 4 Space-Time …
SEATTLE, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Edward R. Close, PhD, PE, and Vernon M. Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, have announced a profoundly important finding that affects the basic assumptions of physics and changes the way scientists understand …
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Simple steps for strategic businesses
Dr Wilfred Isak April holds a PhD (Entrepreneurship) and lectures on Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Namibia (Unam). Related Stories. AFRIKA: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN: …
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Take This Advice and …
If I had heeded this explicit and implicit advice to consider non-faculty careers or to look outside of the academy earlier, I would have turned my sights towards alternative-academic jobs sooner. I was able to cobble together some non-academic …
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Oil tycoon Ian Wood calls for change in schools
The Conmission is also set to call for better careers advice in schools and Sir Ian said businesses have an “immense role” to play in ensuring that youngsters understand the workplace. He added: “This will be best done with long term partnerships from …
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Essay on humanities Ph.D. students with and without outside financial support
He's been able to renew his position – but he also hasn't published, and was passed over for a tenure-track job where he teaches because his teaching load made it impossible to write articles. Another, a married person who leans on her non-academic …
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Hobby Shop Marks 75 Years
At its 1938 founding, the Hobby Shop was a student club strictly for nonacademic projects. "The founders chose the name because they believed that a … That freedom has spawned brilliant careers. Chuck Jordan '49 made a car model that won a 1947 …
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If sustainability is to unify . . .
The broad concept of sustainability — doing what works best in the long run, not just what gives the biggest economic return today — must be a central component of any education relevant in the 21st century. .However, to deliver that, we need to be clear about .what we mean to achieve.