She describes it as a "social graduation versus academic graduation".
The teams were then ranked using six equally weighted criteria: winning percentage; number of former players currently in the N.B.A.; federal graduation rate; academic reputation, as determined by U.S. News & World Report; and coaching and perceived program "cleanliness" as ranked by a panel.
Knowing that, he wants to close a school where the graduation rate, academic proficiency rate and (pun intended) success rate of the African-American students is among the best in the nation?
Clinician attitudes may also vary by other clinician characteristics, such as number of patients seen per month, clinician sex, training status, previous experience as principal investigator, time since graduation, or academic or industry affiliations (Joffe and Weeks, 2002).
During graduation ceremonies the academic costuming of graduands offers visual symbolic registers of their earned academic status.
After graduation he held academic appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. (1949 51; 1955–57), the University of Michigan (1951 55; 1957–59), and Harvard University (1959 2005).
Oddly, the Times notes, "Duffy attacked the reliability of standardized tests in general, but then defended the performance of his members in part by pointing to the rising graduation rates and Academic Performance Index scores at many campuses.
It involves measuring indicators like graduation rates; the academic quality of entering students; the number of Ph.D.'s being produced; the scholarly citations and awards amassed by the faculty members; and the dollar value of federal research grants awarded to the faculty members.
His frankly mercenary tone matches that of another college-hoops bête noire, Kentucky coach John Calipari, who has built a basketball program that, as Reeves Wiedeman has noted, ignores graduation rates and academic excellence and instead is "focussed on insuring that each of its students moves on to successful, satisfying careers".
A: At graduation, the average academic performance of women at the institute is better than that of men.
