Sentence examples similar to university direction from inspiring English sources

They are pushing in the other direction, too: directing universities to become incubators for new companies, and directing community colleges to give students skills for hard-to-fill jobs.

It points to the direction universities will have to take if the bundle of technologies called Big Data — new data and artificial intelligence tools — really are to transform industries, as its champions predict.

Now Dr. Levine, a prominent cancer researcher who was chairman of Princeton University's molecular biology department, is trying to move the university in new directions, bringing in new scientists, fashioning new partnerships with other universities, and raising more money to supplement the university's $200 million budget and $1.4 billion endowment.

"After considerable discussion," Mr. Popeo said, "all parties learned new things about each other that indicated Mr. Goldin was incompatible with the direction the university was going in and that the university was not a good fit for him".

In 1968, under his direction, the university established the Institute for Environmental Medicine, which has conducted multidisciplinary studies of oxygen toxicity, diving-related diseases and aerospace medicine.

"There's been a paradigm shift," said Cornelius W. Sullivan, vice provost for research at the University of Southern California, who is trying to point his university in a similar direction.

Ryan, a member of the National Honor Society, was thinking of attending a large university but changed her direction as a high school senior in Easton, Pa.

Still, supporters point out that under Dr. Lawrence's direction, the university's fund-raising has increased nearly fivefold, sponsored faculty research has almost tripled and the percentage of minority students has doubled.

Although Dr. Lawrence was derided at every turn by critics, there were those -- including former Gov. Tom Kean, who today is the president of Drew University -- who noted that under Dr. Lawrence's direction, the university's fund-raising increased nearly fivefold, faculty research almost tripled and the percentage of minority students doubled.

This creates a large interdisciplinary network of colleagues interested in teaching and learning who contribute significantly to the direction the university takes in educating undergraduates.

While this doesn't necessarily make CU a private school, it does take the university in an unsettling direction.