In the past 30 years, our standards for "special interests" have remained constant while the academic profile of the student body as a whole has grown even stronger.
For children, Brackett notes, school is an emotional caldron: a constant stream of academic and social challenges that can generate feelings ranging from loneliness to euphoria.
The one constant in the academic picture is that students are always undergoing a turbulence of mind and body; they are sure something is profoundly wrong with their lot - something the president is, by his very nature, incapable of comprehending.
Chilean philosophy is characterized by a constant tension between academic pursuits solely informed by developments within the discipline, and critical outlooks that demand a closer philosophical engagement with politics and society.
Rankings were converted to z-scores plus the constant 5. Academic rank was unavailable for 725 students (classes of 1988–1990).
In their marital lifetime, Rose was his constant companion in his academic, cultural and professional pursuits.
For decades, Johnson, an Asia specialist, was one of those stock figures of the Cold War: the defense analyst and academic in constant orbit of the C.I.A.
Professor Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial's student exchange coordinator, says they continuously monitor students' progress: "We talk to them via Skype or phone, on occasion we even talk with their families, and we're in constant exchange with the academic partners".
The cynical transformation of centres of knowledge into self-sustained enterprises and the constant strive to translate academic activity to administrative language and to a meaningless paper trail that does not interest anyone except the people who create it in order for the system to pat itself on the back, are indications of an era of new barbarity, the new Dark Ages.
Backed by a constant progression in his academic career he became the Rector, between 1992 and 2004, of the 'Carol Davila' University (the oldest, largest and most prestigious in Romania), considered an example of progress and innovation in the 150 years of history of the University.
University students face multiple stressors such as academic overload, constant pressure to succeed, competition with peers as well as concerns about the future.
