junior college
U.S. History
Education
Examples of junior college in the following topics:
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Vocational Training
- One of education's responses to a country in transition was the junior college.
- Numerous colleges and universities advocated for the development of junior colleges.
- Hill was actively involved in the American Association of Universities and calling for the establishment of junior colleges for this purpose.
- Developing "semiprofessionals" became dominant national language to describe junior college students.
- Other examples of sub-baccalaureate programs were the University Preparatory School and Junior College of Tonkawa.
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Teaching at Community Colleges
- In the United States, community colleges, sometimes called junior or technical colleges, are primarily two-year public institutions providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education.
- The small and intimate neighborhood atmosphere also attracts students to begin or to continue their education at a junior college.
- The open enrollment policy in junior colleges is yet another benefit for students, especially those who would not qualify for enrollment in a traditional university, such as those with mediocre high school academic records or who did not graduate from high school and later obtained a GED.
- For example, four-year colleges, now more than ever, often give priority to students transferring from community colleges, citing their demonstrated preparedness for junior and senior college-level work.
- Joliet Junior College Main Campus, in Joliet, Illinois the first Community College in the U.S.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It was during King's junior year that Morehouse College announced it would accept any high school juniors who could pass its entrance exam.
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Inadequate or incorrect marketing, cooperation, finance, or HR strategies
- If larger established companies really commit themselves to their junior partners and are successful, then cooperation often ends up with the senior partner taking over the start-up.
- However, what is much more common is opportunistic behavior by the senior partner, where it is paid well by the junior partner for its marketing activities, but then it does not in fact aggressively market the junior partner's products.
- In many cases the founders and employees of start-ups are in their thirties, and sometimes only in their twenties, and are frequently highly qualified university or college graduates (cf.
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The Vice Presidency
- Electoral College.
- The creation of the Office of Vice President was a direct consequence of the Electoral College.
- Electoral College.
- The president pro tempore has the power to appoint any other senator to preside and, in practice, junior senators from the majority party are assigned the task of presiding over the Senate most of the time.
- The President of the Senate also presides over counting and presentation of the votes of the Electoral College.
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Understanding Tenured Jobs
- The tenured and non-tenured track in academia often defines the role of educators at the university and college level.
- A junior professor will not be promoted to such a tenured position without meeting the goals of the institution, often demonstrating a strong record of published research, grant funding, academic visibility, teaching and administrative service, with emphasis different across institutions.
- In North American universities and colleges, the tenure track has long been a defining feature of employment.
- In some colleges the term Senior Lecturer is awarded to highly qualified or accomplished lecturers.
- (b) A professor on leave who is invited to serve as a member of the faculty of another college or university for a limited period of time, often an academic year.
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Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
- Diocletian delegated further in 293, appointing Galerius and Constantius as caesars, junior co-emperors.
- The first phase of Diocletian's government restructuring, sometimes referred to as the Diarchy ("rule of two"), involved the designation of the general Maximian as co-emperor—firstly as Caesar (junior emperor) in 285, then Augustus in 286.
- In 293, feeling more focus was needed on both civic and military problems, Diocletian, with Maximian's consent, expanded the imperial college by appointing two Caesars (one responsible to each Augustus)—Galerius and Constantius Chlorus.
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The Election of 2004
- Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior Senator from Massachusetts.
- In the Electoral College, Bush received 286 votes to Kerry's 251.
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Teaching High School Classes
- High school teachers have a wonderful opportunity to shape the minds of developing adolescents and to help guide them into their post-secondary experiences in college, trade schools, or in the world of work.
- This reflects the wide range of grade combinations of middle schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools.
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The 2008 Election
- Democrat Barack Obama, the then junior Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona.
- Born in Hawaii in 1961 to a Kenyan father and an American woman from Kansas, Barack Obama excelled at school, going on to attend Occidental College in Los Angeles, Columbia University, and finally Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.