"A thoughtful, energetic explorer of the many new possibilities technology offers to teachers, researchers, and students in our colleges and universities, Alison is widely recognized in American higher education as an important voice for forward-looking change and effective consensus-building," Philip E. Lewis, vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, said in a statement.
While many of the tweets had more playful messages like winning the Powerball, there were several that held selfless, optimistic and forward-looking sentiments for change this year. .
The North Carolina legislature tried this with a bill to force sea level rise forecasts to be based on past patterns instead of on forward-looking projections using climate change data.
Those who favor such changes, including forward-looking policy makers, administrators, and postdocs themselves, need a strong advocate -- such as the NPA -- to pressure these organizations to push these changes through.
We are an optimistic people by nature, forward-looking, flexible and willing to change.
I am ashamed and as a result I react and propose reform, change, and forward-looking thinking with creativity and innovation.
And while trustees rightly call on presidents to be forward-looking and to bring about change at their institutions, faculty members with equal justification often ask us to protect the centuries-old traditions of higher education.
We're selling this city as a forward-looking metropolis, yet we can't change a single window in a conservation area.
If CCGs cannot position themselves at the centre of change, the most forward-looking GPs will increasingly see participating in new provider models as the best way to make a difference.
Like civil disobedience, lawful punishment is associated with a backward-looking aim to demonstrate condemnation of certain conduct as well as a forward-looking aim to bring about a lasting change in that conduct.
