Sentences with phrase «city year alumni»

Brooke Charter Schools and LACY have partnered to provide City Year alumni preference in our application process by automatically moving them to the initial phone interview round.

City Year alumni, for example, opened a Providence, R.I., site in a record four months.

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He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

James «Jake» Short, superintendent of the Plattsburgh City School District, mentioned how though opioids have a larger footprint in his school system, he's had five alumni pass away in as many years because of heroin.

Paladino was honored in 1991 by the City of Buffalo as Buffalonian of the Year and in 1993 as Alumnus of the Year by St. Bonaventure University.

The former Rockette was back on stage two years ago for an alumni performance, and she's been teaching dance on the weekends ever since retiring from Radio City in 2002.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

Recent controversial decisions — including the board's announcement last year that Cooper Union would abandon its tuition - free model — and the dismissal of Bharucha, who is deeply unpopular with many student and alumni groups and the New York State attorney general, have led to contention and unrest at the New York City college, especially among the leadership ranks.

Four extremely talented LA - based NAP alumni are currently having solo shows in New York City, including Lisa Sanditz at CRG Gallery, Iva Gueorguieva at Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Sarah Cain at Galerie Lelong, and the young and already in demand Brenna Youngblood at Jack Tilton Gallery (Youngblood will be the focus of an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis later this year).

A New York City native, Fischl has lived in different cities across the country over the years, including Chicago, where he worked as a security guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the1970s and was exposed to the bizarre and provocative works of SAIC alumni Ed Paschke (BFA 1961, MFA 1970) and Jim Nutt (BFA 1967).

LOCATION: New York City SPECIALTIES: The program is interdisciplinary, but applicants apply to either painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, or «new genres» TUITION: $ 51,676 TIME TO DEGREE: 2 years NOTABLE FACULTY: Gregory Amenoff, Sanford Biggers, Nicola Lopez, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kara Walker FAMOUS ALUMNI: Jon Kessler, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Georgia Sagri, Guy Ben - Ner, Lisi Raskin BIGGEST SELLING POINT: As with many of the Ivies, in Columbia's case, self - perpetuating exclusivity plays a major part here: only two percent of applicants to Columbia's MFA in the visual arts are accepted.

The city bears all the hallmarks of a college town and is home to the Oklahoma State University, an NCAA Division I School, which draws tens of thousands of alumni back to the city each year in one of «America's greatest homecoming celebrations.»