The BMW Group is inviting young academics from all over the world to submit entries for its Scientific Award 2007. Prizes worth a total of 70,000 euros will be awarded to authors of outstanding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses, regardless of The BMW Group is inviting...
THE road to hell, as is well known, is paved with good intentions. And no doubt the Appellate Body AB of the World Trade Organisation WTO meant well when it decided to allow non-governmental organisations NGO s and academics to comment on...
Academics: A National Science Foundation report finds that over the last three decades federal academic funding has focused more on R&D and less on science and engineering (S&E). Although the amount of federal money spent on R&D has tripl Academics: A National Science Foundation report finds...
Critics, including academics and library personnel, fear Copyright Office ruling will impede 'fair-use' access to content The U.S. Copyright Office has narrowly defined when online users can legally circumvent copyright protecdon, and critics Critics, including academics and library...
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER COUNSELLORS NATIONAL CAREER CONFERENCE, HOBART, 26-28 March 2008 A distinguished assembly of workplace experts and academics will meet to confront the latest issues facing employees and employers around the world. The central theme of the 2008 AACC conference is Career Landscape:...
John Orr Crites, one of the leading vocational psychologists of the 20th century, succumbed to pneumonia on March 15, 2007. With his passing, counsel ling psychology lost an exemplar of its scientist-practitioner model. Jack's scholarly contributions and leadership substantially advanced vocational psychology both as a distinct discipline...
CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To...
The purpose of this study was to explore implicit attitudes towards members of social fraternities and sororities. Participants completed both an explicit rating scale and an implicit (Implicit Associations Test, or IAT) measure of attitudes toward members of social fraternities/sororities. Results show a positive correlation between the explicit and implicit...
Certain colleges and universities require that their academic librarians have an additional advanced subject degree for either being eligible for hire or for continued employment. This paper reviews this topic and examines how using metaphors may help the field of librarianship make sound decisions on this controversial topic. ...
Supplemental Instruction SI is a national program designed to aid college student learning. Many researchers have noted that analysis of the impact of the SI program on student achievement is problematic as a result of the inherent self-selection bias. We apply a sufficiently sophisticated statistical technique that controls for the...
Undergraduate research programs are becoming more prevalent, but research on the processes and outcomes is limited and deals largely with perceptions of student learning gains. This paper adds to the literature by describing undergraduate research activities from the student perspective. A phenomenological approach was used to analyze journals kept by...
The mission of the Louisiana Tech Explorers Camps is to motivate students of GEARUP schools to begin planning and preparing for entrance into an undergraduate program upon graduation from high school. ********* Public schools are charged with the task of promoting the development of future generations...
Social scientists in Britain have conducted a survey of attitudes toward Islam among the nation's university students. Of the Muslim students, one-third support the creation of a worldwide caliphate, about the same number believe that killing in the name of Islam is justifiable, and two-fifths want the sharia code incorporated...
Washburn University staff member John Cummings hands incoming freshman Angie Young, of Valley Falls, a reusable bag during a fair Wednesday by Washburn academic departments, offices and student organizations to showcase their offerings to new and returning students. The theme for this year's fair is "green." Displays will demonstrate ways...
PHARMACY Today pharmacists aren't just doling out drugs - they're giving medical advice, too. By Virginia Matthews If you think a pharmacist still wears a white coat and just dispenses pills, think again. Changes to medicine in the past decade have seen the profession move to...
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