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K. P. Zepeda and E. Mayock (eds.), Forging a Rewarding Career in the Humanities, 161–167. © 2014 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. CHRISTA BUCKLIN FINDING FULFILMENT THROUGH SELF, PURPOSE AND COMMUNITY I am currently in a period of transition. I am uprooting my life and moving to a new
M. E. Menon et al. (eds.), Using Data to Improve Higher Education, 93–118. © 2014 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. EUGÉNIA PEDRO, HELENA ALVES AND JOÃO LEITÃO EVALUATING STUDENTS’ QUALITY OF ACADEMIC LIFE Using Data in a Structural Model Approach INTRODUCTION In a context of
transform such knowledge into practical and ethical action. – A liberal arts and sciences education enhances their personal development as well as their academic and career development, and provides them with a range of skills that they will be able to use throughout their life. – In addition, the
competency and confidence to be an independent researcher and a prospective knowledge creator. I can now be a motivator whose experiences and reflections motivate other young lecturers to be potential researchers and knowledge creators like my own supervisors
by offering its various resources and educational opportunities to the local community – to sum up by paraphrasing Benjamin Barber (1996), by being a 'good neighbour' that cares about and supports the improvement of (civic) life in local communities. The idea of civic mission and university
this important point when I am talking about Asian traditions. At this point I want to emphasize that the implementation of the copy right law in China was mainly an act motivated by international pressure6 and that the implementation in Japan was a minimal concession to internationalization.7 We
experience of life, living of itself, offers signs, signposts, and directions for our actions. A person can perceive the prompts; the signs are there. One may or may not heed. A love of language urges me to interpret, and a commitment to hope drives interpretation. Stewardship can be one’s calling as an
deeper qualitative understanding of how “life in the new modern Academe” has changed. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF OPPORTUNITY: A PLAY IN ONE ACT Setting: The campus of a major, graduate degree granting, research university (i.e., new modern Academe) in North America in the not too distant future. List
sensationalised and fetishised (cf. Malik, 2005, ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’; Coleman, 2005, ‘Amazing double life a growing trend among Muslim girls’) thus replicating stereotyped notions of ‘culture clash’ and ‘double lives’. Here, these articles aim to show that Muslim women, once ‘liberated’ from their
three year undergraduate degree and a separate one year taught Master’s degree with a dissertation. UK and EU students wishing to study in England can obtain government loans for their undergraduate fees and living costs but not for postgraduate study. For many EU countries, the creation of a