Pedro A. Regalado is a National Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies at Yale University.
College, of course, is where the millennial lounges around on lush green quads, spends someone else's money, insists on "safe spaces," protests her school's heteronormative core curriculum, and wages war on her professors if she receives a grade below an A. I did the first two of those things, thanks to the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia.
I have doubts that social scientists, scholars, foundation executives, impact investors and government managers are ever going to be happy.
Eizenberg is president of Educational Travel Alliance, a company based in Wellesley, Mass., which he started in 1998 largely to make arrangements for Americans — scholars, performers, foundation workers and the like — to travel to Cuba.
Still, the field may be in the midst of its biggest restructuring in four decades, interviews with many of the more than three dozen scholars and foundation officials indicated.
BERKELEY – Alice M. Agogino, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, was recognized today (Monday, May 24) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with the Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation's highest honor for teaching and research excellence.
They and dozens of arts officials, scholars and foundation officers said in interviews that the filmmakers have been facing a crisis in financing from nonprofit sources that has had a profound effect on what kind of documentaries are made, how they are made and where filmmakers go for money.
In the decade since its founding, George has helped scholars and foundations use it as a template for similar outfits at Georgetown, New York University and Williams College.
* Exposing Armenian "buy-out" of scholars: Armenian foundations and wealthy Armenian Americans are pouring money into American universities to support scholars, including Turkish ones, whose positions corroborate the Armenian narrative.
As Buddhism developed in India, however, and did so in part by way of making the distinction between Nirvāṇa and saṃsāra ever more comprehensive and pure, it gradually but decisively reached the point of identifying Nirvāṇa and saṃsāra, and this identification, according to some scholars, became the foundation of Mahāyāna ("Greater Vehicle") Buddhism.
The marvelous deeds by which Raleigh and his associates — a group of brilliant soldiers, sailors, adventurers, and scholars — laid the foundation of England's vast colonial empire, found their inspiration in loyalty to the Crown and country, love of liberty, and devotion to religion.
