Questions tagged [university]
Queries related to universities, as an institution of higher eduacation that grants academic degrees and provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education.
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Is it typical to not list class instructors during undergraduate enrollment?
Enrollment for undergraduate students has just started at my university. Perusing the classes for my department though, only a couple of the dozens of classes being offered have an instructor ...
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Super, not stellar, Computer Science PhD programs [closed]
So it's not hard to find a list of the top-rated PhD programs in CS. What I'd like to hear about are the departments that may be lesser-known, but still offer great grad experiences. I'm primarily ...
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Should I stay in the Honors College at my University [closed]
So I am in the honors college in my university and one of their requirements is that i complete a year long seminar. That is, two classes of 3 credits each, each semester (fall and spring). there are ...
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What did Peano meant by “R. Universitate”?
In a book written by Giuseppe Peano, it is written "Prof in R. Universitate de Torino" i.e. "Prof in R. University of Turin".
I guess "R" stands for "royal" but I have no proof of that.
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What is the use and importance of recommendation letters?
In my country recommendation letters to enter the equivalent to an MBA or PHD are just a suggestion, not necessarily, and/or irrelevant. In some cases they are shunned because they are considered ...
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What is the best way to express my condolence to a professor?
I am a Ph.D student at the university. Every student has a favourite professor same as mine. I really care about and our student-teacher relationship growing stronger day by day. My professor really ...
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Would the professor leave the classroom if only 1 student uses their cellphone during class? [closed]
I’m a college student. My class has only 40 students. My professor left the classroom before class ended because, like he said, too many students were using phones while he was talking. It was not ...
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positioning yourself for research positions after graduating from a PhD in a different country
I asked this on Reddit also but didn't get any responses so I am trying here.
I am a first year PhD student thinking about how I can start to better position myself to get a research position after ...
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I dropped out of college a decade ago. How do I finish my graduation now? [Pune, India]
I was a student of Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Computer Engineering, from 2007 to 2010 in Pune, India in MIT AOE - Maharashtra Institute of Technology Academy of Engineering - http://www.mitaoe....
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How to tackle interviews trying to leave a recent lab
Both me and my current PI agree that I am not a good fit for the lab I joined 1 month ago. I have good recommendations from my previous PI from grad school, How do I tackle interviews and job ...
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What happens if a department runs out of space? [closed]
I'm curious what happens if a department runs out of space - e.g. they are expanding, but they don't have enough rooms for their faculty, postdocs, visitors, etc. It's presumably possible to squeeze a ...
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Searching for remotely working industrial Scholarship For university department Students [closed]
I am biomedical Engineering student and CEO(chief executive officer) member of one new Medical device manufacturing Company (from third world countries), we have here many Students with no specific ...
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LetterHead for LOR
I am applying for Graduate school in US. I have 2 years working experience and i have 3 people ready from my company to provide me the letter of recommendation but as a whole the company will provide ...
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What sets “top” universities apart from “mediocre” universities in continental europe?
Every year rankings are published that list Oxford, Stanford and the like at the top, while many(most?) universities in continental europe share ranks well beyond 100. I myself am a Phd student at a ...
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What does it take to be a researcher/professor at a top, top university?
I'm just an undergrad, so I'm not really asking this question for myself. This comes more from general curiosity. I know/know of several people who did PhDs from top universities (e.g. Princeton, MIT, ...
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Part-time UK lecturer - how much admin and what counts?
Can anyone give me a guide to how much admin a part-time university lecturer should be doing. My employer is so very vague and I have no idea if I'm doing too much, or if I can just say no. It seems ...
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Why did it become so much more expensive to start a university?
In 1873, Johns Hopkins University was started with an inflation-adjusted $144.5 million. In 1884, Stanford University began with an inflation-adjusted $139 million. Meanwhile, in 2009, KAUST was ...
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Does FERPA require parental notification of disability assessment?
There are significant barriers asking and negotiating disability supports and accommodation at a college/higher education level. There is also a lack of awareness and education of the rules and ...
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Do universities maintain secret textbooks?
Textbooks are highly important resources for course work as well as for research work.
Some textbooks are freely available over internet. Some textbooks can be purchased.
Is it true that there ...
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Invitation to visit university for PhD
Recently, I have been interviewed for swedish phd and I have gone through several skype interviews and writing task. They have send me an email that I am a strong candidate. Now they are asking for ...
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Are there any institutes removing teachers based on less performance in publications? [closed]
Consider the four cadres: assistant professor, associate professor, professor and above.
Are there any universities or other institutes across world in academia that removes from office permanently, ...
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Is there something special about “City Universities” and do the municipalities somehow govern them?
There are several universities with the title "City University". Is there something special about them, is it some kind of special model of founding, governing and developing the university by the ...
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Writing a master thesis in a totally new field?
One year ago I started an interdisciplinary master programme. It is now time to choose my master thesis topic and the one I have in mind is totally unrelated to my bachelor and quite distant from my ...
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Which is better to stay in shared house or university accommodation? [closed]
I will be a postgraduate student from this Oct in UK and looking for accommodation.
I would like to know pros and cons of shared house and accommodation provided by the University.
Thank you in ...
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What are these mathematical groups in U.S. universities?
I have just finished my bachelor degree and I will be entering a PhD program in mathematics. On the home page at my schools (and others) I have seen that there are various groups, composed of teachers ...
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Do American Christian Universities and Colleges offer as high quality education as other countries?
I'm asking specifically about Science courses.
The Kurt Wise case does not reflect on Harvard though it's a Christian University, I understand that. He rejected it because he was convinced geology ...
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Interview question
I have a question regarding an interview at a university. The candidates are asked to prepare a presentation on the topic of 'How will you contribute to the teaching, learning, and research in the ...
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What is the proper designation for someone who has not finished their master's degree?
If a person has completed their course work but has not submitted their dissertation or capstone project. what can you call them if they are teaching a class or course at an academic institution?
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Doing research in academia and not liking competition
In short: is it possible to do research in academia (starting from a PhD position up to being a professor) while not liking competition?
I was an athlete in high school and I left because I was not ...
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Can a degree be revoked for minor misconduct? [duplicate]
I was wondering how possible it would be that, after graduating, the university would investigate a minor misconduct during college. By minor I mean, if found guilty the worst punishment would be / ...
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Is there an equivalent in another country of the French “CIFRE”?
A "CIFRE" in French is another type of doctorate where the French government helps to fund a company to hire a doctorand.
There are several differences between a CIFRE and a "doctorat" in France, or ...
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Should I cheat if the majority does it?
I'm taking the last and hardest exams of my master degree. During the exams we aren't allowed to use anything else but our brain. Cheating is pretty easy though: one has the lecture notes and all the ...
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What can I do with a research project that is my university’s intellectual property?
I'm working on a final year project on software development. I intend to publish it as a research paper on computer science, but the university says that it will hold intellectual-property rights (IPR)...
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Dr. rer. med Title
The doctorate title "Dr. rer. med" is awarded to non-medical postgraduate researchers from University Hospitals.
Is it equivalent to a PhD, or Dr. Eng. etc.?
Is it recognisable in other countries ...
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Submitting a trivial correction to a CS assignment/coursework (i.e. source code)
I am a University student.
I had some course work which I had to submit. This work is a computer program, a very large codebase. Due to technical reasons, which are entirely my fault, I submitted the ...
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In the upper echelon of universities, is it the case that international students generally perform better than local ones?
This question is aimed at undergraduate level, since postgraduate students are more mobile. By "upper echelon" I mean those that are, say, in the top 200 universities in the world (presumably there ...
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I unknowingly submitted plagiarised work
I have received an email saying that my essay is under consideration for the ethics committee for suspected plagiarism. My lecturer had told us that we could work on our essays together as we were all ...
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Final exams: What is the most common protocol for scheduling?
At my college this semester, just a few weeks before spring final exams, the administration decided to entirely throw out the prior process for scheduling final exams (which has been in use for at ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a professor to bump up a grade when I suspect it may be at the cutoff?
Background: My course has three exams: I did really bad on the first, great on the second (97%), and I think well on the third. I regularly attended the professor's office hours and never missed class....
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Professor Misinformed class on exam structure [closed]
In my module for the last 4~ months whenever the structure of our exam was brought up, our lecturer stated that we would get 3 questions and be required to answer only 2 of them. This had been the ...
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Do students need to wait a year to join university in Canada?
I am an Indian and my son is going to complete high school (+2) in March 2020.
I am planning to apply for engineering/computer science for my son in any university/college in Canada.
Now, I come to ...
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appropriate Word for transfering student from one university to another university
I am searching an appropriate word for transferring student from one University to another University
There might be such a word which helps me to search for related topics of transferring student ...
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What does a dean do? [closed]
This is a follow-up question to What does a head of department do?
The University of Waterloo has a document that describes the answer to this question; however the document is rather vague, and it ...
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What's the proper way to (APA) reference a settlement agreement?
I want to reference an exhibit from the following document (it's been split into separate parts):
Exhibits:
https://targetbreachsettlement.com/Portals/0/Documents/Settlement%20Agreement%20Exhibits....
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Using university's resources that are online
A lot of the time when looking for information about a topic online I come across another university's resources that are publicly available. Some have a full listing of all the resources available ...
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Should my PhD thesis be submitted under my legal name?
I married during my PhD and changed my legal surname however (for many reasons) I will continue to publish under my maiden name. My (UK) university says that a thesis has to be submitted under the ...
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Do universities favor experimentalists over theoreticians? [closed]
This question is based off the following chain of reasoning:
Universities employ professors, who write funding applications and win grants. The university then takes some fraction of the grant as "...
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posting photos of my students in classroom
Is it legal/ethical to include photos of my students in my classroom online (as in my online portfolio)?
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How much help with coursework is acceptable?
If a university student is set coursework, this is generally a very uncontrolled method of assessment. Lots of different sources can be used to draw knowledge from and often if it's a technical ...
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Identical projects by students at two different colleges: still plagiarism?
Me and my friend attend different colleges, both of which are part of the same university. My friend has done the project and as well as me too. Our projects are exactly the same - not a single word ...
