UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AND MAJORGENERALS IN POLAND

The Ideological Orientations of Canadian University Professors

This paper analyzes the ideological orientations of Canadian university professors based on a unique 2000 study of a representative sample of Canadian academics (n=3,318). After summarizing methodological problems with extant research on this subject, and tentatively comparing the political views of Canadian and American academics, the paper demonstrates that Canadian academics fall to the left...

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Gender Differences in Problematic Alcohol Consumption in University Professors

The role of job satisfaction and other psychosocial variables in problematic alcohol consumption within professional settings remains understudied. The aim of this study is to assess the level of problematic alcohol consumption among male and female university professors and associated psychosocial variables. A total of 360 professors (183 men and 177 women) of a large private university in Ecu...

iTunes University and the classroom: Can podcasts replace Professors?

iTunes University, a website with downloadable educational podcasts, can provide students the opportunity to obtain professors’ lectures when students are unable to attend class. To determine the effectiveness of audio lectures in higher education, undergraduate general psychology students participated in one of two conditions. In the lecture condition, participants listened to a 25-min lecture...

The University of Edinburgh and Poland

throughout the ages remained that it was the office of the pulmonary veins to bring air to the left heart and take away the smoky products of combustion. Today it is fully justified to point out how far Galen had really advanced and that on the basis of some of his first principles (such as the arterial blood content) he could and should have arrived at a transit of the arterio-venous pulmonary...