An argument for athletic spending at Division 3 (and to some extent, Division 2) schools is that it is an important student recruiting device: at some liberal arts schools, 30-40 percent of students are on some intercollegiate team, and the figure is 10 percent or so at some Division 2 schools (as opposed to well under 5 percent at most FBS powerhouses).
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Palmer appeared as part of the Arts in Schools program at the Atlanta-based Threshing Floor Academy of Arts and Sciences Inc.
As part of his public spending review, he announced that the Department for Media, Culture and Sport was to receive extra funds to widen participation in both the sports and arts - particularly in schools.
Imparting skills will remain arduous, so long as South Africa's schools and universities turn out hordes of semi-literate arts graduates and hardly any black engineers or accountants.
Store managers are already responsible for organizing in-store events while community relations managers work with local schools to promote literacy and the arts.
One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.
More than 1, 200 universities and colleges, and 1, 200 K-12 schools and districts host over 2, 500 public and thousands of private courses encompassing the arts, sciences, health and medicine, education, business and more.
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In an ideal Republic, every American would get a broad-based, four-year, liberal arts education rooted in great books shared inquiry, as offered at schools like my graduate alma mater of St.
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Along with more than 20 other U.S. and European business schools, those institutions met last month at George Washington for a conference to discuss ways to better integrate a liberal-arts education into the business curriculum.
Comprising the bulk of the top 10 list are small liberal arts schools like Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Kenyon College in Ohio and Bennington College in Vermont--all high on prestige and low on student-teacher ratios.
The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.
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