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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"American universities"”.
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Meeting the Needs of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants: Professional Development in American Universities
In our post-9/11 globalized society, the bifurcated governance structure that has traditionally dominated foreign language (FL) departments is no longer desirable. According to the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) report entitled "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a …
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Asymmetric network ties to elite American universities create differential access to venture capital in Africa
… up in a few countries. Because ties with elite universities are the primary way in which African startup founders build social capital with U.S. VC firms, which are the largest purveyors of venture funds on the African continent, I advance a novel network theory. It is predicated on a new form …
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Managerial behavior, pricing policies, and resource allocation within American universities and auxiliary health clinic enterprises
… and pricing policies within state and private universities, as well as within associated auxiliary health clinic enterprises. Economic theory predicts that managers within state universities will choose to spend relatively more of the university's scarce resources on non-educational goods and …
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The role of the university presidential spouse as perceived by spouses and chairs of boards of trustees at Association of American Universities affiliated institutions
… at member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU). The five objectives of this study were: (a) to determine to what extent spouses should be included in the presidential interview process, (b) to identify which activities should be required of spouses, (c) to determine …
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Advancing Scholarship in Wartime: The World War I Research Experience and Its Impact on American Higher Education, 1900-1925
… in World War I historiography. It analyzes how American universities, represented by a select list of representative institutions, responded to increased demands for advanced knowledge during the war and how this influenced their commitment to scientific investigation and their relationship with …
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EXPLORING UNIVERSITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRESENCE AS RELATED TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS
… the presence of Project Management (PM) at 162 American Universities via data gathered from their publicly accessible websites. Motivated to expand the inventory of American university PM data to the international literature, I experimented with the potential to correlate statistically PM data …
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A Case Study of the Internationalization of a Midwestern University English Composition Course Occurring in a 3-D Virtual Environment
… of strategies, has become a growing movement at American universities in an effort to create globally competent graduates who are prepared to be responsible world citizens. Many of these strategies are implemented by faculty members who internationalize their courses by providing opportunities to …
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Argumentative essays written by native speakers of Chinese and English: A study in contrastive rhetoric
Of the modes of writing required at American universities, argumentative writing may be the most important and the most difficult to master. Contrastive rhetoricians have claimed its mastery can be especially difficult for international students, who bring to English rhetorical conventions that do …
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Foreign Language Anxiety Among Japanese International Students in the U.S.
… anxieties Japanese international students at American universities have and the relationship between these anxieties and length of stay in the U.S. 151 Japanese international students answered a modified version of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz, Horwitz & Cope, 1986) …
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A Study Of Issues And Problems Women Face In Attempting To Pursue Careers In Educational Administration In Kenya
… in Kenya, and female Kenyan students in North American universities. A questionnaire was used to collect data from the women teachers selected from five educational levels, namely, university, commercial and technical colleges, secondary and primary schools, and Kenyan students in North …
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An aesthetic analysis of the most popular post-secondary Spanish language introductory pedagogical videos.
… utilized in the largest language programs in American universities. Elements of philosophy, film theory, and foreign language pedagogy are combined to analyze the existing video series and to develop a theoretical template for further examination and production. This study involves a …
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She's Got Game: An Exploration of the Athletic, Academic, and Social Experiences of Black Canadian Female U.S. Athletic Scholarship Recipients
… complex and sometimes challenging pathways to American universities. Thirdly, I find that throughout this navigation, the participants endured, navigated, and resisted racial and gender stereotyping, identity projections, and gender and race-based barriers that were distinct from their …
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Higher Education as a “Smart” U.s. Foreign Policy Tool: Assessing the Attitudes of U.S. Trained Foreign Nationals
… if the cultural immersion process towhich American Universities subject their international students leads to their long-term adoption of American values and opinions. Grounded upon the concept of smart power, Nye argued that the attractiveness of shared values can contribute to the …
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The Status Of Advertising Education In The New Millennium
… to earn a degree in advertising, and how American universities prepared students for it, had a research champion in Billy I. Ross, who did extensive study on curriculum and degree requirements beginning in the 1960s. His last study was in 1991. The World Wide Web, Internet, digital …
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Selling a university : a content analysis of NCAA Division I colleges' featured YouTube videos using the Spirituality in Advertising Framework.
American universities are using social media outlets to reach audiences; moreover, the collegiate YouTube channels included in this study had more than 1.5 million subscribers as of August 31, 2018. Past studies have identified spiritual elements within commercial advertising (Marmor-Lavie & Stout, …
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The Influence of Adult Attachment Orientations and Multicultural Competence on Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of ELL Students
… were 60 faculty members from three Midwestern American universities who completed the survey. Faculty perceptions, the dependent variable, were measured through faculty reports of their attitudes towards ELL students and their perceived adequacy of the English language proficiency of ELL …
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University Comprehensive Internationalization (CI): Faculty Meaning-Making, Motivations, and Perceptions for Engaging Globally
American universities have been internationalizing for decades, and their leaders often contend they must engage globally to stay relevant and prepare students adequately for a rapidly changing work environment. Faculty members, as keepers of the curricula and pivotal university actors, are …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
<p>The Communal “I” in American autobiography emerges as an aesthetic response to the pressure of using “the master’s tools” to write from a community on the margins to disclose identity in the conflicts of exclusion and belonging. In this case “the master’s tools” to refer to several distinct …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this dissertation investigates how aesthetic judgment is enacted in scientific writing and explores the rhetorical history of the terms …
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The American University: Attitudes about Safety and the Impact of Gun Regulations on Campus
An ultimate goal of American universities is to provide a safe and secure environment for all who attend and operate there, but what safety looks and feels like to the individual can vary to a great degree. There are many factors that campus safety departments consider when designing their campus …
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