Sentences with phrase «american students graduate»

At a time when only seven in 10 American students graduate from high school in four years, President Barack Obama is demanding that the nation raise its educational sights even higher, asking all Americans to commit to at least one year of education after high school.

At a time when only seven in 10 American students graduate from high school in four years, an ambitious new president is demanding that the nation raise its educational sights even higher.

However, it would exclude those with life sciences degrees because of «the often difficult career prospects for American students graduating with PhDs in biological and biomedical fields,» according to a fact sheet released by the staff of Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX).

One glaring fact is that by the time the average American student graduates high school, she or he will have spent a...

In 2015 - 16 in Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on time.

Still, many poor, minority and disabled students continue to fall behind: Only 62 percent of students with disabilities, 61 percent of students with limited English proficiency, 76 percent of Hispanic students, and 68 percent of African American students graduated in the same year.

During the 2009 - 10 school year, only 66 percent of black students, 71 percent of Hispanic students, and 69 percent of Native American students graduated in four years, compared with 83 percent of white students.

A record 81.4 percent of American students graduated from high school in 2013, according to the 2015 Building a Grad Nation report.

One glaring fact is that by the time the average American student graduates high school, she or he will have spent a mere 13 % of her or his waking hours engaged in some form of classroom instruction.

According to Student Loan Hero, the average American student graduated $ 37,172 in debt in 2016, up six percent from the previous year.

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He was actually the first African - American student to graduate from the University of Tulsa theater program.

She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

Each year, about 65,000 undocumented students who have lived in the U.S. for five or more years graduate from American high schools.

Listing «problems» standing in the way of U.S. economic growth, Dimon cited American immigration policies that often prevent foreign college students from getting a job in this country after they graduate.

A 2014 study by the Brookings Institute states that «roughly one - quarter of the increase in student debt since 1989 can be directly attributed to Americans obtaining more education, especially graduate degrees.»

A 2014 report from the New American Foundation estimated that 40 % of loan debt was held by the 14 % of students seeking graduate degrees and the College Board found that graduate students borrow an average of nearly three times more per year than undergraduates.

She tells the AP that to date, the academy averages less than 20 African - American women graduating each year out of a class of 1,000 students.

For most American college students and graduates, student loans are a fact of life.

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 84 % of all 2014 medical students graduate with debt, and the median debt level is $ 180,000.

The annual quota includes 65,000 visas for foreign workers applying for the first time, while the remaining 20,000 are for foreign students graduating with advanced degrees from American universities.

Furthermore, other hiring paths within the OCIO and the USDA include positions open to the public, positions for current or former federal employees, military spouses, senior executives, family members of overseas employees, students and recent graduates, Native Americans, current or prospective members of the National Guard, and Peace Corps alumni.

Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.

The Foundation made eight grant awards in 2013 - 2014 to outstanding American graduate students and young professionals enabling them to attend and present papers at major space - related symposia and conferences including the IAF International Astronautical Congress, SGAC Space Congress, AAS Goddard Memorial Symposium, NSC Goddard Dinner, Satellite 2014, SSPI Gala, AIAA Spotlight Awards and ISPCS.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

In a 2016 survey, graduate - level nursing students said they expected to leave their program with a median debt of $ 40,000 to $ 54,999, according to a report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).

These seniors will soon be joining the 43 million Americans working to repay an estimated $ 1.3 trillion in student debt.The student loan debt problem has a lasting effect on the lives of graduates long after «Pomp and Circumstance» signals the end of their college careers.

During the 1960's a remarkable revival of the thought of the contemporary American process philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, took place in the studies and dens of graduate students in philosophy.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community or around the world, and, this year, CGI Latin America, which will bring together Latin American leaders to identify, harness, and strengthen ways to improve the livelihoods of people in Latin America and around the world.

For example, after the high - profile suicide of a Chinese - American graduate student in 2007, Stanford University's Asian American Activities Center surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students of Asian descent about their mental health and the problems that concerned them most.

One of my graduate students who conducted field work in Samoa reported to me that when she told a Samoan woman that American men like to suck on women's breasts, the Samoan was amazed.

I glaze over the spelling because half the graduate students and professionals I know are expats and don't use American spellings either.

Dr. Flais engages in clinical care of pediatric patients in the outpatient setting, medical student and graduate medical education, and authoring / editing parenting book titles with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

«The MBK Fellows and MBK Native American Programs will give more students access to mentors, resources, and experiences that will help them graduate from high school on the right track for a bright future.»

Cafeteria Chats and Student Journals are part of American Graduate — Let's Make It Happen — a public media initiative to address the drop out crisis, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities keep more students on the path to graduation.

In 2005, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Education launched the Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee project, which allows chemistry Ph.D. students to organize symposia at ACS national meetings.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science applauded 73 House lawmakers Wednesday for fighting to keep out of a final tax overhaul measure provisions that would saddle graduate students with significant tax increases and damage the nation's innovation economy.

He has also received awards from the American Chemical Society, the American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Graduate - Professional Students, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, the American Geophysical Union, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

The financial support came from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant that Weir, who was studying the genetics of sex ratios in mice, had won to fund graduate students — a grant, it turned out, that was intended only for American citizens and permanent residents.

First, when I arrived for the Early Start summer program in June 1994, the department chair, Dr. Matthew Platz, had lunch with all of the African - American chemistry graduate students at the faculty club on campus.

«Contrary to concern expressed by some critics,» he said, «there are not enough qualified or interested American students to fill all the slots in STEM undergraduate and graduate programs.»

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

A Tunnel to Atlanta 4 May 2007 Ethnic networks are influential in channeling international graduate students and postdocs to American labs, research shows.

At the very least, students could find out «whether each department is meeting minimum standards as set forth by the Association of American Universities (and others) and whether each graduate student feels comfortable enough at the department to stick with the graduate program and finish with a degree,» says graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. Louis.

And although the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Next Wave), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS) all helped to publicize the survey, Davis and Fiske recruited most of the voluntary participants through «viral marketing» — the Internet industry's term for the old «he told two friends, she told two friends» approach to information dissemination.

Ethnic networks are influential in channeling international graduate students and postdocs to American labs, Beryl Lieff Benderly reports.

IRES grants go to American graduate and undergraduate students, to provide a meaningful scientific experience and to broaden participants» international perspectives.

Ethnic networks are influential in channeling international graduate students and postdocs to American labs, research shows

The American Institute of Indian Studies offers fellowships to faculty and graduate students for research on studies related to India's history, culture, and contemporary development.