Within the first few hundred days of Schwartz's instatement as Vice-Chancellor, the ' Macquarie @ 50 ' strategic plan was launched, which positioned the university to enhance research, teaching, infrastructure and academic rankings by the university's 50th anniversary in 2014.

UC Irvine's first Chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich, developed the campus ' first academic plan around a College of Arts, Letters, and Science, a Graduate School of Administration, and a School of Engineering.

The plan was meant to address the universities financial situation and academic quality standards simultaneously.

Specifically, the plan defines sites for about of future campus academic and support facilities to accommodate the increased FTE enrollment.

In 2005, University President Bob Kustra announced an ambitious road map for transforming Boise State University into a “ Metropolitan Research University of Distinction .” An integral part of this plan is the integration of the “ Campus Master Plan ” to build and expand university infrastructure to support academic programs and create and attractive and accessible learning environment.

In addition to the formation of a community of high-achieving peers and success student perks, a dedicated academic development specialist provides one-on-one support with scholarship and post-degree applications, as well as with each student's overall academic plan.

Both schools are well known as having high academic achievement under the state's school improvement plan and No Child Left Behind.

A new venture Jindal Global Law School sought to start an academic program with a recognized Juris Doctor degree, however that plan was withdrawn, and the school now only offers the more traditional LL. B.

Services include: Funding for academic enrichment, assistance to 157 clubs and societies, an extended health and dental insurance plan, scholarships, grad class events, used book sales, yearbooks, orientation, Shinerama, a student housing directory, delivery condom service, entertainment, an exam database, faxing and photocopying.

Colorado College is known for its non-conventional " block plan ," which divides the year into eight academic terms called " blocks "; a single class is taken during each block.

If the plan is widely accepted by students, parents and alumni, this new plan will be implemented during the 2008-2009 academic year.

The original plan was to have no academic sub-divisions within the three faculties ( initially Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences ) and to incorporate an interdisciplinary element to all degrees through common first year courses (" Part I ") in each faculty, followed by specialist study in the second and final years (" Part II ").

The five-point strategic plan is moving Jackson State University to a new academic excellence.

The plan includes over $ 700 million for new buildings and renovations of the campus, including construction of four new academic buildings, a sharp reduction in the size of the legendary " dustbowl " campus green, a recreation center to replace the Flynn Recreation Complex, a university center to replace McElroy Commons ( which is slated for destruction ), and the creation of 610 beds for student housing, as well as many other constructions and renovations.

Combining Gothic Revival architecture with principles of Beaux-Arts planning, Maginnis proposed a vast complex of academic buildings set in a cruciform plan.

In 2000, to help finance the " Top 20 " plan, the university launched " The Campaign for the University of Kentucky ", a $ 600 million fundraising effort that was used to " enhance facilities, academic programs, public service, and scholarships.

Each student is assigned to a faculty advisor, known as a " don ", to plan a course of study and provide ongoing academic guidance.

Like Senate, Programs Board is divided into three or four committees, each headed by a committee chair ( who has usually served on Programs Board for one or more years ), and each is assigned specific events to plan throughout the academic year.

The bond offering is part of Liberty University's campus transformation plan which will include several renovations and additions to academic buildings and student housing, as well as fund the new Jerry Falwell Library and formation of a medical school.

For the 2010-2011 academic year, tuition is $ 37, 512, a double room is $ 7, 540, the meal plan is $ 4, 410, and other fees are $ 3, 610.

The school set forth a plan of action, which included the university appointing editors for the 2008 – 2009 academic year.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

Questions include a wide range of biblical and academic topics — but none from popular culture.

The unnamed college attended by the main characters was later given the name " Walden College ", revealed to be in Connecticut ( the same state as Yale ), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure — issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated.

The decade also saw the framing of FGM — along with other issues in the domestic sphere, such as dowry deaths — as a human rights violation, rather than as a health concern, and this encouraged academic interest, including from feminist legal scholars.

Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies, but during his time at Eton he worked with Roger Mynors to produce a College magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications — College Days and Bubble and Squeak — and participated in the Eton Wall Game.

After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, pursued a career in academic nursing — she became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

Intellectual and academic critics have often judged Plautus's work as crude ; yet his influence on later literature is impressive — especially on two literary giants, Shakespeare and Molière.

Higher Superstition argued that for an article to be published in some academic journals, especially those associated with the humanities, it needed only to display " the proper leftist thought " and to be written by — or to quote — well-known leftist authors.

Traditions are a subject of study in several academic fields in social sciences — chiefly anthropology, archeology, and biology — with somewhat different meanings in different fields.

During summer 2009, the largest capital improvement project broke ground on the Fayette campus — $ 75 million — which will include a new student center, suite-style housing, and a Liberal Arts academic building.

* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

The NCAC is respected for the academic strength of its member institutions — all of which have Phi Beta Kappa chapters.

Václav Havel — a writer, dramatist and philosopher — was recruited from the independent academic community and appointed president of the republic in December 1989.

* — Halifax academic Laura Penny's study of the phenomenon of bullshit and its impact on modern society.

In summary, the inspection team praised the pastoral care system, the high academic achievements of all its pupils — irrespective of their age, aptitude or ability-and the happiness of the pupils.

According to this study, Kalamazoo College is ranked number nine among all private colleges and — when compared with all academic institutions — it ranks number fourteen in Ph. Ds per capita.

Though respected for their contributions to various academic disciplines ( respectively mathematics, linguistics, and literature ), the three men became known to the general public only by making often-controversial and disputed pronouncements on politics and public policy that would not be regarded as noteworthy if offered by a medical doctor or skilled tradesman.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

The Gospel of Barnabas was little known outside academic circles until recent times, when a number of Muslims have taken to publishing it to argue against the orthodox Christian conception of Jesus.

Moreover, the Bricket Wood coven today is well known for its many members from academic or intellectual backgrounds, who contribute to the preservation of Wiccan knowledge.

Various debates have arisen surrounding the constitutional future of Berwick, or Berwick-upon-Tweed as it is known in England, but have been largely academic.

Johann Heinrich Alsted ( March 1588 – November 9, 1638 ) was a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millennarianism.

He has an academic cap named after him, known as the Bishop Andrewes cap, which is like a mortarboard but made of velvet, floppy and has a tump or tuff instead of a tassel.

Also academics note that since much of what is known about Manichaeism comes from later 10th and 11th Century CE Islamic historians like Al-Biruni and especially the Shia Muslim Persian historian Ibn al-Nadim ( and his work Fihrist ); " Islamic authors ascribed to Mani the claim to be the Seal of the Prophets " This topic is discussed by an Israeli academic Guy G. Stroumsa

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

Although Descartes was well known in academic circles towards the end of his life, the teaching of his works in schools was controversial.

Heckscher is also known as the founder of economic history as an independent academic discipline and his work Svenskt Arbete och Liv is a fundamental work within this subject.

Traditional academic prizes, such as the University of Aberdeen's Lumsden and Sachs Fellowship, tend to be awarded for performance in theology ( or divinity as it is known at Aberdeen ) and religious studies.

One of Penn's most well known academic qualities is its emphasis on interdisciplinary education, which it promotes through numerous joint degree programs, research centers and professorships, a unified campus, and the ability for students to take classes from any of Penn's schools ( the " One University Policy ").

The Umeå Institute of Design is known around the world for its high academic standards.

He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived and taught was formed into a mediaeval academic hall in his name and eventually incorporated as the current college St Edmund Hall.

Today the College is known for its unique academic calendar and for its study abroad programs.

Dissatisfied with what he called the " free-swinging academic style " of the school, Dembski also was involved a group known as the " Charles Hodge Society ".

The Santorum Amendment was a failed proposed amendment to the 2001 education funding bill ( which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act ), proposed by Republican Rick Santorum ( who was at that time the United States Senator for Pennsylvania ), which promoted the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution in U. S. public schools.

Besides plans for academic and religious works, in 1674 he began to print a broadsheet calendar, known as the Oxford Almanack.

There are three academic terms ( known as halves ) in the year,

The Village is a group of residences where students who have similar interests or academic goals apply as small groups of 4 to 24, known as BLOCs, to live together in clustered suites along with non-BLOCs.

The Institut d ' Estudis Catalans (, English: " Institute for Catalan Studies "), also known by the acronym IEC, is an academic institution which seeks to undertake research and study into " all elements of Catalan culture ".