So did an academic conference in August held in the Mari capital, Yoshkar-Ola.
The city's university held an academic conference on European issues in February - but no extravaganza, complete with fireworks and carnivals, is planned.
"Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend, " a three-day conference at Hofstra University, is billed as the first academic conference dedicated to the entertainer, who died this year.
It was the function at Princeton Junction where Princeton University's Center for African American Studies hosted a first-ever academic conference called Ain't That a Groove: The Genius of James Brown.
This discontent led to a public protest and bitter exchanges at a recent academic conference in London sponsored by the Lithuanian embassy (part of a year of official commemoration of the Holocaust).
But when Stephen Gorard of the University of Wales presented research at an academic conference that indicated that the intake of Welsh-medium schools was better-off than average, and that this helped to account for their superior academic results, outraged dons shouted him down.
He pointed out that at a recent academic conference at one of Turkey's most progressive universities in Istanbul, he witnessed audience members give a five-minute standing ovation to a Turkish speaker who "slammed America" in front of a panel of visiting U.S. officials.
Nevertheless, the news that both Maryland and Rutgers are joining the Big Ten Conference by the 2014-15 academic year will be a financially prosperous decision in the long run for both schools as well as the Big Ten Conference.
It was in this spirit, under the guidance of the Academic Council, that the Center created the National Security Academy , a two-day conference designed to facilitate interactions between members of the Academic Council, serving legislators and senior officials, and current or recent students pursuing careers in the foreign and defense policy fields.
During his comments to the Athletic Council, Gee also questioned the academic integrity of schools in the Southeastern Conference, and the University of Louisville.
To address this challenge, a three-day International Conference on "Integration of Academic Courses with Vocational Education in Secondary Schools" was organized jointly on 17-19 February in New Delhi by UNESCO, the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and the Commonwealth of Learning.
He said the conference was for those with a scholarly academic interest.
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Their first-ever Final Four appearance and conference title in 1997 were wiped out by an academic scandal.
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It was agreed that the Conference advanced understanding on TVET policies and strategies for integrating academic courses with vocational education through equivalency.
Today, seven years after the Durban Conference, Israel Apartheid Week has become a mainstay on the academic calendar, nearly as taken for granted as Homecoming Week and mid-terms.
Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, is being sued by GE Healthcare after he suggested at a conference in Oxford that one of the company's drugs might have potentially fatal side-effects.
They are, in order of weight, basketball revenue spent on athlete scholarships and other academic programming, profit kept by the athletic department to support athletic endeavors and conference revenue generated via NCAA tournament play.
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In a conference call with reporters, system president Joe DiPietro and Katie High, vice president for academic affairs and student success, indicated students could send faculty e-mails and those on-campus could approach faculty with questions.
As but one example, the conference was kicked off yesterday by Shlomo Benartzi at UCLA, who reminded audience members how academic research led to a revolution in retirement policy in the U.S., improving the retirement security of millions of Americans by increasing participation and contribution rates to 401(k) plans by leveraging the insights of psychology and behavioral economics.
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So when a collegiate organization like the Big Ten Conference is motivated to expand, most would like to think it's a school's academic, or even athletic, merits that put said institution at the top of the want list.
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