Universities‚ governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize? Simon N. Young Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Having spent 40 years in universities‚ I have had sufficient time to consider some of the idiosyncrasies‚ foibles and problems of these academic institutions. The purpose of this editorial is to discuss the current state of university research and explain why I find some aspects of the current
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To inform Specific purpose: To inform my audience about my culture and life as a working student. Thesis Statement: Introduction For years‚ college students have been told that their college years would be the “time of their lives”‚ what people don’t tell us‚ is what makes it the time of our life. According to a National Retail Federation survey conducted in 2009‚ "Nearly 49.1 percent of college students will be living at home this year‚ meaning that just over half of you are living on your
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Informative Speech Study Drugs and College Students I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: "I reached into my backpack‚ grabbed an Adderall‚ and went to the bathroom. I smashed it on the bathroom sink and snorted it. I went back to my class and zipped through the rest of my exam‚ and it made all the difference." This student incident was found in a 2005 article published by Baylor University on the alarming use of “study drugs.” B. Thesis: Many of you may be unfamiliar with such a topic‚
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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT A TERM PAPER SUBMITTED BY RICHMOND OWUSU 10251417 ON THE TOPIC “ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION ON THE RESTRUCTURED ACCOMMODATION POLICY OF UNIVERSITY OF GHANA” TO DR. THOMAS BUABENG ON 15TH NOVEMBER‚ 2012 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Research problem 2 1.2 Purpose of the study 3 1.3 Objectives of the study 3 1.4 Research Questions 3 1.5 Relevance
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perimeter is wrapped around good god fearing people‚ where one is welcomed to sit and speak about life’s joy as well as the wounds sustained. Through the use of irony‚ the author is able to present the bigotry of the Christians. Irony is a figure of speech where a word’s meaning is different from the actual meaning. The story starts off with an elderly African-American woman dressed in her church clothes. She walks in the cold for a half a mile to attend an all-white church. Upon entering the church
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THE GREEN UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE FOR CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY Course: Man and Environment - 2303165 Associate Professor Dr. Nantana Gajaseni ------------------------------------------------- PRAWEE N 534326xxxx ------------------------------------------------- PAWEENA B 534326xxxx ------------------------------------------------- PORNNAPAS K 534327xxxx ------------------------------------------------- PITSINEE S 534328xxxx Forewords “...We live in a breakable takeable world‚ an ever
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more people aim towards enrolling at a university and pay a lot of money in the hopes of obtaining a degree. Everyone considers higher education essential for having a successful career. However‚ the question of whether this higher education actually helps students be prepared for the real world or not remains. It is not as simple to put into practice what one has learned at the university as students believe. The important thing is to learn how to adapt to a new environment. Thus‚ this essay will look
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(SNSs‚ especially Facebook) have become highly popular with youths‚ some university students do not want to participate in such sites. This study explores the underlying reasons for high-tech university students’ non-use of social networking websites. The study group (n=20) consisted of 18 to 25-year-old undergraduate students‚ who were selected by the purposive sampling method. Data were collected from two large state universities in Turkey. Facebook‚ as one of the most popular social networking websites
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deepening your understanding and emotions of the concept of discovery. Welcome to Holland is an essay‚ written in 1987 by Emily Pearl Kingsley‚ about having a child with a disability. The play Away written by Michael Gow in 1987‚ is a text which focuses on three families ready to travel for their summer holidays after a long and complicated year. The piece Welcome to Holland is today used as an inspiration by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs and disabilities. The piece
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HRMT 2160 EILEEN KNIGHT Moosehead University Intake Evaluation Report Crystal Mclean 2/2/2014 This report is containing information that will have my recommendations to conduct a work analysis for Moosehead University. Introduction: The following is the list of Stakeholders that I will be advising with the following job analysis. Dr. Melinda Mucabout‚ Moosehead University‚ Vice-President of Administration. Dr. Mucabout contacted me to conduct a job analysis from
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