ON A BALMY evening this week, the crowd at billionaire Ron Burkle's Beverly Hills estate was a mixture of high-level academia and high-level Hollywood, none higher than Robert Redford, actor, director, Sundance guru and the industry's uber-environmental activist.
At the core of the schools' programme is a commitment to bridge classroom teaching to high level academia.
A significant portion of its library is given over to the work of Century members, representatives from the fields of high culture, academia and politics (over the years, these have included Brendan Gill, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Chuck Close, to name a few).
Since testing of illicit drugs on trout isn't very high on academia's agenda, we have to make some logical inferences to determine this.
These aren't English language learners unable to surmount the complexities of Fitzgerald or Keroac, nor are they the cognitively challenged, who, despite their best efforts, remain overmatched by the modest rigors of high school academia.
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Rewards are so much higher outside academia that Britain's economics departments are struggling to find the next generation of teachers.
Of the generation associated with Bam, several artists – notably Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper – have achieved high positions in academia, something unimaginable in Britain 20 years ago.
I feel very proud of having someone like yourself represent my country at such high level in academia.
Maybe architects have to get out of that high place in academia or in the corporate office and go back in the streets and find work there.
