It's a long term, intensive commitment that focuses on the most struggling students in the lowest performing schools.
Advisors don't have to sign up for an intensive commitment; Neal views it as different than mentoring, "which tends to be much longer-term relationships, more intimate, with coaching and guiding, whereas an advisor might be somebody you call upon at certain points to guide your thinking".
As the United States focuses on the dollar, proliferation and China, it must necessarily disengage from other costly and time-intensive commitments.
The physical and psychological care needs of patients approaching the end-of-life are considerable and require specific knowledge, skills and intensive time commitment amongst those who care for them.
Medical school is a huge financial obligation in addition to being an intensive educational commitment.
Taking an intern in my department is a labor-intensive summer commitment, and I am already overcommitted at work.
Although the OGTT is more labor-intensive and commitment-intensive for families, the use of the HbA1c as a more practical alternative (30) lacks sensitivity in the pediatric population, particularly in a short-term study such as this (31).
We know, according to the ACLU Foundation of Arizona, racial disparities intensify at each stage of the juvenile justice process, from referrals to secure detention to intensive probation to commitment to Juvenile Corrections to trial as an adult.
In a recent survey of elite physicians asked to rank the top attributes of excellence among intensive care physicians, commitment and compassion joined knowledge, teaching ability, and leadership skills as the characteristics most admired in their working colleagues [ 18].
Participation in the Witness Project required that both witness role models and lay health advisors be articulate, comfortable speaking to people, possess a desire to provide health education, commit to an intensive training program, have a commitment to improving cancer education in the community, be willing to be available to the community and to act as a health information resource.
By the same token, not every kid needs the kind of intensive, no-matter-what commitment of Friends".
