Sentence examples for academic arm from inspiring English sources

According to Rollin McCraty, the director of research at Heartmath's academic arm, coherence "is a state that builds resiliency — personal energy is accumulated, not wasted".

The women, though they exhibit hands and fingers that truly breathe, often angle their wrists so that they curtail, rather than release, the expansiveness of a gesture or an academic arm movement.

The EAC's purpose is to act as the academic arm of its parent organisation the ECU.

Lee Elliot Major of the Sutton Trust, talks of an academic arms race.

The reasons weren't entirely clear, but they seemed to include some combination of the admissions office taking Proposition 209 to heart and black students falling further behind in the academic arms race.

Much like parents who profess to hate the academic arms race created by test preparation and tutoring even as they accelerate it, students profess to disdain the qualities that are part of the culture of any competitive public or private school (ambition, for example).

Perhaps it would be a good thing, he said, if the recession could refocus college administrators on the quality of higher education, rather than on investments in climbing walls (Reed does not have one) and other "country club" aspects of college life that have fueled an academic arms race reliant on tuition increases and fund-raising.

"That you created some passive set of people who sit back musing and consider their 20's were the best part of their lives?" And Ms. Shapiro of Barnard said the attention to wealth "feeds a serious academic arms race" that is unhealthy for colleges.

It's been called an academic arms race, the race to nowhere, the rush to rankings, and more.

And that's a whole lot easier to do when you aren't involved in the academic arms race, as McMullin calls it.

The academic arms race -- rapidly excalating costs, especially in the form of hefty compensation packages for administrators -- has been a controversial issue in recent years, and both the University of California and California State University have come under withering criticism from some legislators for salaries that increased even has budgets were cut.