Sentence examples for academic divided from inspiring English sources

In "The Human Side of Enterprise", originally published in 1960, Douglas McGregor, a Harvard academic, divided management styles into Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X was the classic command-and-control type of management, the authoritarian style which (McGregor wrote) "reflects an underlying belief that management must counteract an inherent human tendency to avoid work".

Asked the meaning of two new polls showing a modest improvement in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's approval ratings, politicians and academics divided into two camps: those who dwell on the silver lining, and those who dwell on the clouds.

3. Academic expectations The academic divide between grade school and high school can be daunting.

His other innovations included a yearlong academic calendar divided into quarters.

An informal sounding of scholarly opinion yesterday revealed an academic community divided over whether the mayor's proposal, which was approved by two of the three mayoral candidates, amounted to an unacceptable breach of democratic tradition or a welcome, even necessary, response to a difficult time for the city.

This kind of either/or debate only reinforces the misconception that there is a barrier separating research and teaching; that academics are divided and forced on to distinct career paths, to the detriment of their students.

Academics are divided over the implications of Scottish independence on university research funding.

The college's academics are divided into five divisions: the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, the Humanities Collegiate Division, and the New Collegiate Division.

Graduate student Rhiannon LaVine and professor Peg Yacobucci had visitors and academics alike divided into two camps over which animals represented the most charismatic invertebrate fossils – the bug-like trilobites and the spiraled ammonites.

We conclude that academics are divided on the issue of whether biomedical journal peer review is fair, scientific and transparent.

Academics are divided on the issue of whether the biomedical journal peer review system is fair, scientific and transparent.