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  2. University of Phoenix - Wikipedia

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    University of Phoenix. University of Phoenix[3] (UoPX) is a private for-profit university headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. [a] Founded in 1976, the university confers certificates and degrees at the certificate, associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree levels. It is institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission [4 ...

  3. List of academic ranks - Wikipedia

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    Administrative ranks. Rektor – rector / chancellor / president / head of university. Prorektor – prorector / vice-chancellor / vice president / assistant head of university. Dekan – dean / head of faculty or school at the university. Prodekan – vice-dean / assistant head of faculty or school at the university.

  4. University of the Pacific (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.pacific.edu. University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a private university originally founded as a Methodist -affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento. It was the first university in the state of California, [4] the first independent coeducational ...

  5. Adjunct professor - Wikipedia

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    An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, but the term is generally agreed to mean a bona-fide part-time faculty member in an adjunct position at an institution of higher education.

  6. Academic advising - Wikipedia

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    Academic advising is, according to the National Academic Advising Association, "a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum, a pedagogy, and a set of student learning outcomes. Academic advising [1] synthesizes and contextualizes students' educational experiences within the frameworks of their aspirations, abilities and lives to ...

  7. University of Portsmouth - Wikipedia

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    The University of Portsmouth (UoP) is a public university in Portsmouth, England. [7] Comprising five faculties, the university offers a wide range of academic disciplines. [8] With around 28,280 students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, the university in 2022 was the 25th-largest higher education institution by student ...

  8. American Association of University Professors - Wikipedia

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    The first principle maintains that the terms of appointment are to be stated in writing. The second details the conditions and length of time professors are given to attain tenure. The third notes that during the probationary period before attaining tenure, the teacher "should have all the academic freedom that all other members of the faculty ...

  9. Appreciative advising - Wikipedia

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    Appreciative advising. Appreciative Advising is a student-centered framework for academic advising that is rooted in David Cooperrider's organizational development theory of Appreciative Inquiry, positive psychology, and social constructivism. The Appreciative Advising framework focuses on identifying and leveraging students' strengths to help ...