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 Academe - Diverse Student Bodies, Diverse Faculties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The recent flurry of research on students reveals that a diverse student body confers benefits ranging from the development of students' intellectual and social self-confidence, to exposure to different ideas and viewpoints, to cognitive development and academic achievement.
Rarely are students cited as contributors to the campus climate and academic culture, or as potential benefactors of faculty of color.
Thus, "whiter" student bodies may contribute to the chilly climate for faculty of color by fostering a culture that questions the legitimacy of minorities as faculty members on their campus.
www.aaup.org /publications/Academe/2003/03nd/03ndanto.htm   (2253 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The student bodies of 7% are at least 80% non-white and 11% of these schools have student bodies that are at least 80% white.
The student bodies of 41% of the schools are at least 80% white.
The student bodies of 7% of the schools are at least 80% minorities and 11 % of the schools have student bodies that are at least 80% white.
www.arc.gsu.edu /csp/csp_mscluster.htm   (3598 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly : currents : Student Bodies
Students being excused from academic time for photos, athletics, student government and myriad activities are among his pet peeves.
Santa Cruz reminds the students that government class is a graduation requirement and urges them to hang on to their papers.
Students from both schools share the opinion that high school was not academically challenging.
www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/currents/Content?oid=oid:44054   (1225 words)

  
 ShirkyL Social Computing In Student Populations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
My students are using the Web not just as a research tool but as a way to communicate with one another and to organize their lives.
A student on a wired campus, with computers in the classroom and the dorm room, sooner or later realizes that it is easier to save their work on the network or email it to themselves than to carry disks or even laptops back and forth.
Anyone who has done the math for a 'one computer per student' policy sees millions of dollars tied up in machines that are unused most of the day, and that's when the student body is affluent enough to afford such a requirement.
www.shirky.com /writings/students.html   (1864 words)

  
 CFFC Articles: Student Bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Students are most often referred to a nearby hospital, a local health clinic or a private doctor's office, depending on the student's health insurance.
Students with unplanned pregnancies are referred by health care providers to a variety of community agencies, depending on the student's decision about pregnancy, their health insurance and the university's policy regarding abortion and contraception referrals.
The students we surveyed were quick to link the lack of health services to a general conservative attitude on Catholic campuses that denies the reality of a sexually active student population.
www.cath4choice.org /articles/StudentBodies.asp   (5519 words)

  
 Salon Books | Student bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If you do the noble thing and donate your body to science, you can rest easy in the next world knowing that your earthly remains are cradled in the hands of capable professionals who will treat it with due compassion and respect.
In 1996, a lawsuit against UCLA charged that as many as 18,000 bodies donated between 1950 and 1993 were cremated alongside dead lab animals and dumped in trash bins.
Students of anatomy since the time of ancient Egypt have been carving up cadavers to see what makes the human machine tick.
www.salon.com /books/it/1999/10/27/bodies   (694 words)

  
 Articles - Cheetah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Its total body length is from 112 to 135 cm (45 in to 55 in), while the tail can measure up to 84 cm (33 in).
The whole of the body is of a pale isabelline colour, rather paler on the belly and lower parts, but covered all over, including the belly, with roundish dark fulvous blotches.
The Caress (1896), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body (often misidentified as a leopard's).
www.cat-center.com /articles/Cheetah   (2475 words)

  
 UC's new programs draw student bodies
Total enrollment is also expected to increase to 33,997 students, a 3.1 percent increase over last year's enrollment of 32,975.
In fact, the National Center for Education Statistics projects the number of college students to rise to by as many as 17.7 million by 2012 because of an expected 15 percent increase in the traditional college-age population of 18-to-24-year-olds.
The 19-year-old was one of 33 students from Western Hills High School to receive one of the two new financial aid options from UC called the Cincinnati Pride grant.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/09/24/loc_ucopens24.html   (1000 words)

  
 ET&S [3 (3)] - The Body Matrix:  A Phenomenological Exploration of Student Bodies On-line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The article explores student experiences of their bodies in an asynchronous on-line learning environment, web-based computer conference (WCC), using hermeneutic phenomenology as a research method.  Students in the study experience their bodies to be both here, seated in front of their computers, and there, on-line.
The language they use to describe their experience of body includes metaphors around sound, vision, and touch.  The sensual language raises pedagogical questions to be considered in on-line courses.  A narrative technique is offered as one strategy to address some of the pedagogical questions raised throughout the article.
Students describe their experience of visually taking in information using three visual terms—see, look, and watch.  Each suggests a different level of focus and attention.   To see is not only a way to receive information through my eyes, it also implies the sense-making process that occurs after the reception of the information—I understand.
ifets.ieee.org /periodical/vol_3_2000/c05.html   (4016 words)

  
 Bond University - Student Services - Student Council Role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Members of the Student Council regularly consult with the Deans of the University as well as other staff to ensure that students opinions are considered in all matters.
The Student Council is involved with the orientation program for new students, and numerous social activities including Wednesday by the Water throughout the academic semester.
Importantly, Bond's Student Council is non-political in outlook, concentrating on University issues and the welfare of students.
www.bond.edu.au /services/stcouncil.htm   (204 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Weekly - Student Bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Chadbourne is a member of Students For Choice, a University of Utah group that has campaigned since its inception two years ago for a more comprehensive student health insurance plan.
But for the 1,200 students enrolled in the U’s plan, their premium doesn’t cover preventive care, like gynecological exams, leaving students to search under dorm couch cushions for enough cash to pay for $100 visits.
The school’s student government also recently approved a $1 to $5 fee increase for the development of wind power, but Student Health Services thought that asking students to pay more in a year when tuition increased again wasn’t feasible.
www.slweekly.com /editorial/2003/city_2_2003-04-24.cfm   (793 words)

  
 Will the Twenty-First Century Need Universities?
Students will use it 24-hours a day, 7 days a week; professors will project it onto a flat screen behind him or her in the classroom so that the maps and illustrations studied by students at home will be identical to those used in class.
State universities, in addition, are saddled with many courses with enrollments in the hundreds, where the student has little or no contact with the instructor and is lucky to have a graduate assistant to converse with about the subject matter.
Students will see no difference between the distance-learning courses of large universities and those in our classrooms; indeed, they may well prefer on-line courses for the technological advances they offer.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rbeard/papers/universities.html   (5628 words)

  
 Salon Ivory Tower | Student bodies
When you die, your family notifies school officials and your body is transported to the university, where you are embalmed and refrigerated until they need you.
After students finish their anatomical studies on you, your remains are cremated and disposed of at an appropriate site.
Many of his records are incomplete or missing, making it difficult for school officials to determine whether or not the 225 bodies donated to the university during Brown's tenure have been used and disposed of properly.
www.salon.com /books/it/1999/10/27/bodies/print.html   (1619 words)

  
 UniQ
Student organisations and student councils offer some of the best means to reach out to students in an engaging and fulfulling way, be it for recruitment or product branding.
There are however over 60 well-established international student organisations, let alone the number of local groups.
Thanks to our many combined years of experience with student organisations, we can help you find the answers to these questions and more.
www.chiswickit.co.uk /uniq/pages/StudentBodies.asp   (89 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Student Bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Student Bodies first came out in 1981 it was completely unique, no one had ever done a horror spoof before.
Student Bodies was written and directed by Mickey Rose, who collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplays for Allen's early films.
Student Bodies had a notoriously difficult production and producer Michael Ritchie, Ritchie opted to take his name off the picture, instead using the Director's Guild pseudonym.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001U0G5   (989 words)

  
 FHD-Student Bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
is the highest organ of the student body.
It is the executive organ of the student body.
The Advisory Council consists of three FHD students who may not belong to any student organisation and who are elected by members of the StuPa.
www.fh-darmstadt.de /engl/homepage/all/studbod.htm   (180 words)

  
 Metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A students’ meeting at Shamsunnahar Hall Monday night ended in a fiasco as rival student bodies were divided over observance of the anniversary of police atrocities on the hall’s residents on July 23 last year.
General students who led the agitation mid-July last year under the banner of “Students against Repression” will submit a memorandum to the university’s vice-chancellor SMA Faiz demanding punishment to those involved in the incident.
Many water bodies, including 25 canals in and around the capital, have ceased to be on the city map due to negligence of the authorities, they said.
www.bangla.net /newage/2003/july4th03/230703/met.html   (2536 words)

  
 Student bodies hit 49 million - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 02, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Miss Yan, a native of China who is fluent in English, said she works with "high-performing" charter schools that have high-achieving students who speak foreign languages at home.
A 25 percent increase in the number of annual U.S. births since the mid-1970s, a trend that peaked in 1990, is the other major cause of significant enrollment increases that started hitting nursery schools in 1992, according to the reports.
However, as children of immigrants continue to swell the student population, the number of children of baby boomers is expected to decline from this fall through 2010, owing to a small drop in annual births from 1990 to 1997, according to the Census Bureau report.
www.washingtontimes.com /national/20050602-123028-3127r.htm   (766 words)

  
 MU paper lacks student bodies, fights sanctions
Mark Lucas, director of the Department of Student Life at MU, suggested there were other problems with the Student News, saying the newspaper has undergone changes in the past four or five years.
Under campus policies, losing status as a student organization means the Student News might lose privileges to distribute in campus buildings and might have to negotiate with MU on where it can distribute its editions.
Thompson and the Student News are appealing to a committee that oversees student organizations.
www.showmenews.com /2005/Apr/20050403News004.asp   (440 words)

  
 ETH - Environmental Engineering: Student Bodies
Students at the ETH have organised different student bodies.
This body also supports students by recording former exams and collaborating with the various committees within the Department and the ETH.
The different associations and bodies are members of VSETH (ETH Zurich Student Association) that acts as a lobby for students at the ETH.
www.umwelting.ethz.ch /about/students/index_EN   (193 words)

  
 student governing bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Hillsdale College Student Federation is one of the oldest governing bodies in the United States.
Regularly enrolled students elect the 16-member legislative Forum and the four executive members in the fall.
Men’s and Women’s Councils are the student judiciary bodies of the College and have the responsibility for aiding in the enforcement of the College’s rules and regulations as they involve students on the campus.
www.hillsdale.edu /campus/mentor_pages/on_campus/governing_bodies.htm   (198 words)

  
 Adult Learning Activities | California Distance Learning Project
Students were instructed to copy short passages of the Bible and return them for grading via the new penny post system.
Teleconferencing systems made it possible for teachers to talk with, hear, and see their students in real time - that is, with no delays in the transmissions - even if they were located across the country or around the world.
One of the largest DL student bodies in the world may be part of UNISA, the University of South Africa, with more than 200,000 people enrolled worldwide in 2000.
www.cdlponline.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=whatis&pg=4   (1489 words)

  
 Student bodies demand explanation : 10th sep05 ~ E-Pao! Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In a separate statement jointly issued by AMSU, DESAM and MUSU, the student bodies appealed to all concerned to refrain from such conduct in the future and called upon the abductors for the safe and early release of Ashokumar.
Alleging threat and intimidation to heads of educational institutions against participation at sit-in-protests/rallies in connection with the current issue, the student bodies categorically reminded individuals/groups concerned that right to democratic form of movement cannot be subdued by any force on earth.
Without mentioning names, it further took a dig at bodies functioning and posing as upholder of students’ interest but maintaining silence even though the need of the hour is to join hands in the pursuit of justice, it said.
www.e-pao.net /GE.asp?heading=3&mx=13&src=100905   (770 words)

  
 Student Bodies Episode Guide - Student Bodies Season Episodes - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
While another group of students produces a video tribute to class bombshell Morgan, Emily discovers Cody's cartooning talent, and suggests that as their new project topic, but Cody doesn't want his talents seen by anyone else.
Because they share the same office space as the "Student Voice", the staff of "Student Bodies" never know what is going to happen when the try to use certain supplies.
So the "Student Bodies" team devise their own trap by making Victor think they've put traps of their own -- but they haven't.
www.tv.com /student-bodies/show/3073/episode_guide.html   (2107 words)

  
 411mania.com » Movies » Misunderstood Masterpieces: Student Bodies
Well, released in 1981 and as low-budget as low-budget can be, Student Bodies faded from VHS long ago and the likelihood of finding it on a legitimate DVD release in the near future is almost as slim as the DVD release of Ed Wood.
Student Bodies — before Scream or the Scary Movie series — is the original slasher-movie spoof.
Instead of going to a hospital or a morgue, the gurney with the body and Toby ends up in a faculty office within the school, where the teachers just happen to be interrogating Hardy as to Toby’s whereabouts.
www.411mania.com /movies/columns/article.php?columns_id=2723   (3604 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka News : Student bodies demand higher govt. quota
BANGALORE: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat and the Students' Federation of India (SFI) held protest demonstrations near the CET (Common Entrance Test) Cell on Tuesday morning during the visit of the Minister for Higher Education, D. Manjunath, prior to the first counselling session for special category candidates.
Members of the ABVP protested against the 50:50 seat-sharing formula and demanded that the government quota be increased to 65 per cent.
Anxious students and parents, who had gathered at the CET Cell, looked on with apprehension.
www.hinduonnet.com /2005/06/15/stories/2005061518130400.htm   (284 words)

  
 Student Bodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The only time it may have come close to jumping the shark was when they got rid of Grace and replaced her with Holly.
I couldn't that whole "Student bodies, student bodies..." thing, and the new theme song sounded like The Corrs on tranquilizers.
Rather, she was the brains behind the Student Voice, whereas Victor was an über-moron and über-chump dressed like a country club teenager.
www.jumptheshark.com /s/studentbodies.htm   (770 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
The recent spurt in violence among student groups has forced the authorities to rethink on the matter of elections to student bodies.
Wreaths were placed on the body on behalf of the Jammu and Kashmir Governor, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the DGP of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mr Khurshaid Ahmed said the bodies of Group Captain Kahlon and four others who were killed in the crash were placed in coffins at the police control room in Srinagar and presented police honours.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030807/cth1.htm   (6868 words)

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