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While these classes are much smaller than the average lower-division course a student takes, they are efficient and cost-effective because they rely on inexpensive non-tenure-track labor.

Bob Samuels: Everything Stanley Fish Knows About Higher Education Is Wrong Bob Samuels 2010

While these classes are much smaller than the average lower-division course a student takes, they are efficient and cost-effective because they rely on inexpensive non-tenure-track labor.

Bob Samuels: Everything Stanley Fish Knows About Higher Education Is Wrong Bob Samuels 2010

With the personnel shortage, United will be allowed to add a defender from a lower-division club not involved in the playoffs.

D.C. United news & notes: player shortage, trialist Steve Goff 2010

The Hokies opened 0-2, the second of those losses a defeat to lower-division James Madison.

Stanford Blows Out Virginia Tech In Orange Bowl AP 2011

And the quality of education at these places are indeed exceptional; they replicate essentially lower-division university liberal arts instruction.

Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010

Then they would put in a couple of weeks of intense training—in the case of European clubs, often in a cooler climate, like Scandinavia or a bucolic Alpine location—and partake in some exhibitions against local amateur and lower-division sides.

Real Madrid's Summer Road Trip Gabriele Marcotti 2011

"There's definitely a snobbish opinion that lower-division players will not be good enough if they step up," says Pardew, who guided Newcastle to safety last season after promotion from the second tier.

Soccer's Time of the Upstarts Jonathan Clegg 2012

The soccer game taking place Tuesday in West London between two lower-division English teams, the Brentford Bees and the Brighton and Hove Albion Seagulls, isn't exactly a barnburner.

In English Soccer, the Bettors Rule Hannah Karp 2011

Alan Pardew, the Newcastle head coach, attributes the strength of the promoted teams to the unrealized potential of many lower-division players.

Soccer's Time of the Upstarts Jonathan Clegg 2012

The Hokies opened 0-2, the second of those losses a defeat to lower-division James Madison.

Stanford Blows Out Virginia Tech In Orange Bowl AP 2011