In the University Town Lwów

2015 ◽  
pp. 129-228
Author(s):  
Hugo Steinhaus
Keyword(s):  
University Town ◽  
The University

Richard Mackenney, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250–c. 1650. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019, xiii, 471.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
Thomas Willard
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Italian Studies ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

Shakespeare is well known to have set two of his plays in and around Venice: The Merchant of Venice (1596) and The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603). The first is often remembered for its famous speech about “the quality of mercy,” delivered by the female lead Portia in the disguise of a legal scholar from the university town of Padua. The speech helps to spare the life of her new husband’s friend and financial backer against the claims of the Jewish moneylender Shylock. The play has raised questions for Shakespearean scholars about the choice of Venice as an open city where merchants of all nations and faiths would meet on the Rialto while the city’s Senate, composed of leading merchants, worked hard to keep it open to all and especially profitable for its merchants. Those who would like to learn more about the city’s development as a center of trade can learn much from Richard Mackenney’s new book.

scholarly journals Town-Gown Relationships: Perceptions and Expectations about Bartın University Town-Gown Relationships

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Fatma Ünal
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Human Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Contributions ◽  
University Town ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Universities have missions to conduct scientific research, produce information and technology, fulfill the function of qualified human power needed by the societies at the universal level, as well as lead the transformation of the region and the city regarding social, cultural and economic perspective. The growth and development of universities and effective fulfillment of their functions are associated with the people’s perception about universities’ economic and social contributions to society along with getting approval and support from them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions, evaluations and expectations of Bartın people towards Bartın University, which celebrated the 11th anniversary of the foundation in 2019. In the study, which used a mixed research method, 255 people were reached by using the criterion sampling method and the data were collected by demographic information form, scale and interview form. Findings revealed that Bartın people had little participation in the activities organized by the university and were not aware of these activities sufficiently. Findings also showed that socio-cultural activities organized by the university had enriched the social life, the development of the university had increased the possibilities of transportation both in the city and intercity and the increase in the number of the students positively affected the tradespeople. Additionally, it was concluded that the trainings and activities organized in the university contributed to the personal and professional development of the society. Moreover, the activities should be increased and cityoriented researches should be conducted. Participants, who stated the rapid development of the university as the most powerful aspect of the university, shared the suggestion that the academic staff should be increased in quantity and merit should be taken as the basis for the improvement.

scholarly journals MODELING QUALITY EDUCATION IN A STATE UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-189
Author(s):  
Abel Alejandro U. Flores
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
State University ◽  
Licensure Examinations ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

An exploration and analysis of the processes involved in crafting the institution’s strategic plan, identifying its quality assurance policies, documenting its graduates’ performance in government licensure examinations, description of the processes to ensure sustainability of educational programs, and portray the administration’s fund generation and management mechanisms was made in an effort to create a model for quality education in the University of Eastern Philippines, University Town, Northern Samar. It utilized the descriptive-evaluative method of research with a total of 400 respondents composed of students, faculty members, alumni, community residents, and University officials. Qualitative data were taken from respondents’ answers to open-ended questions, which were then validated through interviews.  Quantitative data on the other hand, were taken from both primary data derived from responses to items in the questionnaire, and secondary data on graduates’ performance in professional examinations. It was revealed that most stakeholders were aware of the institution’s strategic plan, although some were not consulted in the crafting of such an important document.  They aver that policies and guidelines are established, implemented, and strictly adhered to by the administration in its daily operations involving faculty, students, staff, fund generation and management, instruction, research, extension, production, faculty development, and student support services. Although graduates performed consistently well in some government examinations, in the years 2009 – 2014 they performed generally below the national average.  Respondents agree that curricular programs must regularly be updated to conform to minimum standards set by the Commission on Higher Education to ensure sustainability of programs.  For students to be globally relevant and competent, respondents agree to the provision of educationally qualified and competent teaching force, state-of-the-art facilities, modern instructional materials and methods, coupled with good governance and cooperation among stakeholders, are the key ingredients of an ideal quality of education in the University of Eastern Philippines.

Bürgerbegehren und Bürgerentscheid in Freiberg - 1999 bis 2008

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
University Town ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Saxony is one of Germany’s pioneering states when it comes to direct democracy, introducing public petitions and referendums as early as during the Weimar Republic. After 1990, there was another spate of citizens’ initiatives in a vast number of towns, cities and local communities. Between 1990 and 2008, the university town of Freiberg had vastly differing experiences of a number of public petitions which related to a diverse range of subjects. The groups that initiated these petitions were also equally as diverse: political parties, groups of voters with no strong ties to one political party, lobby groups and citizens’ action groups. In some instances, the petitions were initiated by ordinary citizens and market traders, but in others also by local politicians. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr Christopher Schmidt, students from the University of Esslingen have now embarked on in-depth research into this fascinating chapter in Freiberg’s history, the results of which are published in this book. In addition to depicting the individual public petitions that were initiated, it examines the legal foundations of citizens’ initiatives and referendums in Saxony. With contributions by Christopher A. Schmidt, Juliane de Pay, Janine Lebküchner, Vanessa Mayer and Hanife Tozman

scholarly journals The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igea Troiani ◽  
Tonia Carless
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
University Marketing ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
The City

The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation can be read through the social rearrangement of space in the university town or city. A key spatial reconfiguration emerging from the shift in economic conditions is the collapse of the modern university as a singular, ideological construct. Like ‘the city’ before it, the modern university has, at its interior, been reformed into a newly defined, fragmented public–private social space, and, at its exterior, into a devourer of the space of the local community. This article showcases excerpts from a film made by the authors entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities – a title inspired by Jane Jacobs’s critique of great American cities. Our film is a cinematic database survey of the changing space of all British universities which considers this systematic spatial reprogramming of space within the city. The two-year research project is an audio-visual critique of the way in which neoliberalism, corporatization and commercial interests have co-opted the space of the British university. Referencing the films of Charlie Chaplin and Gordon Matta-Clark and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, the film focuses on university cities, critically observing the rise of university marketing material and the consumption of the city and of local community life for university student accommodation. We ask: How are UK universities being spatially reconfigured and what are the consequences?

scholarly journals Santiago Ramon y Cajal, 1852-1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-441 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
University Town ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Ramón Y Cajal

Santiago Ramon y Cajal, foreign member of the Society, died at his home, Madrid, on October 18, 1934, in his 83rd year. Strength of intellect and character had won him, in face of adverse circumstances, high and international position in the world of science. He had become in his own country a very symbol to the people of cultural revival of the nation. He had passed his early childhood in the mountain village of Petilla, where he was native, on the southern Pyreneean slope. His father practised surgery there among the peasants, himself of peasant stock, a doctor’s boy who had later acquired a barber-surgeon licence. Compact of energy and ambition, his father had by dint of grim economies moved later to Zaragoza, the University town. Little Santiago at school showed precocity. When not yet seven he was scribe for the family during an absence of his father in Madrid. But as he grew older the boy proved headstrong, with likes and dislikes intense and passionate. Thus, his love of watching birds on an occasion kept the countryside scouring for him in vain all night, with morning to discover him half up a precipice beside a martin’s nest where he had waited daybreak unable to get farther up or down. His other passion was to sketch : a sheet of paper made his fingers tingle to draw something—anything ; the mule kicking, the hen sitting, the castle on the height, the toper at the inn. Some of this draughtsmanship is extant and published. His father disapproved it ; he feared it might divert his son from medicine. So it was that the boy was packed off to Jaca, to the College of the Aesculapian Fathers. There Latin was a corner-stone of the instruction. Young Santiago, like young Helmholtz, could not learn by simple memorization ; the Latin teaching given required that. The college discipline was severe. Punishment came and grew relentless—the rod, incarceration, and prison-fare. The lad’s reaction became uncompromising rebellion. So was it that he was discharged, thin and sullen, silent about Jaca save for a rhapsody on the beauty of its valley.

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