He promised that his Red Raiders players would be expected to adhere to high academic standards, pledged an initial $10,000 donation to the school library with a promise of more to come and said that the Texas Tech faithful would enjoy teams that play hard and smart -- most of the time.
That feeling of unfairness has prompted boycotts like "The Cost of Knowledge," where more than 14,000 academics have pledged not to publish, do peer review or editorial work for these journals.
Explicitly tying school nutrition to academic performance, she pledged to expand the program on all these points.
Private foundations, companies, and academic institutions have pledged another $400 million, including $100 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the effects of the microbiome on malnutrition and ways to manipulate soil microbes to improve crops in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the largest divestment in the academic sector, Stanford University pledged in May 2014 that its $18.7 billion endowment would no longer be used to invest in coal.
Includes information on policies, information on all the houses, some fraternities as well as sororities, including their academic averages, initiation and pledge costs, fees, and activities they participate in or organize on the campus and national level.
The first members of the fraternity traveled to Boston, Massachusetts on the weekends of the 1971 spring academic term to attend pledge events at the Sigma chapter.
His student's desired destination was Israel, whose academic institutions he has pledged to boycott as a way of protesting the state's treatment of Palestinians.
This is not just an academic point; China has pledged a reduction, of between 40% and 45% by 2020, in the level of its "carbon intensity"—the amount of carbon emitted in proportion to output.
We will join with governments from around the globe, civil society organizations, business, academics and scientists to pledge political and financial commitment to ending the scourge of undernutrition.
Wesleyan's vice president for student affairs, Michael J. Whaley, told IHE that use of study aids can be considered a breach of the portion of the honor code that asks students to pledge that their academic work was completed and submitted "without improper assistance".
