Writing Workshop is a teaching framework that champions student choice and self-expression.
While there, she championed student rights, women's liberation, and abortion reform.
So we developed the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award to draw attention to the schools that are getting it right - defining health broadly; prioritizing long-term, strategic approaches; and championing student voices.
These colleges accept students who stand out from the applicant pool, whether it's the debate team champion, the student council president or the field hockey captain or one person who is all three.
A figure of determination and independent spirit, Ruth Chaien Tsao Chai was also, at various times in her life, a champion Bible student, a professor of English, Lady Mountbatten's Chinese interpreter and the mother of three boys whom she had to raise while fleeing Japanese invaders.
An innovative thinker and a popular professor of political science before his rapid climb through the university's administrative ranks -- his book "The Governmental Process" is still taught at universities -- he had become an opponent of Vietnam and a champion of student rights in an era when universities were expected to act like overprotective surrogates.
The process must be begun years in advance of the SAT, and involves extensive psychiatric evaluations and the backing of a school that has the sufficient impetus and resources to champion the student to ETS.
Unless they're the national champion, a student who's a great trapeze artist is unlikely to get a break in admissions if they have a B average special as it is, colleges get no money, media, or prestige from those who fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
During his review of further education last year, Sir Andrew Foster emerged as a somewhat surprising champion of students.
The Obama administration is championing the student loan overhaul passed by the Senate earlier this week as a wonderful thing.
