Sentences with phrase «even students at colleges»

Even students at colleges that suit them may suffer from a lack of guidance or difficulties integrating into social and academic life.

Not exact matches

This means that recruiters will be searching for the top students at elite colleges, even if that person studied art history or psychology.

Look at how we expect college students to declare a major as soon as possible, for example, even though they haven't even had a chance to really explore the world on their own at all.

What's more is the average amount for those students debt came in at right around $ 35,000, and that doesn't even include debt for those who attended a private college or university.

The program is aimed at building a deep long - term association between industry and academia — in collaboration with the faculty at 10 leading Indian engineering colleges, it will aim to enhance the Computer Science curriculum in selective areas and foster even greater student - driven innovation and entrepreneurship.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

The concept is simple: a team of four college students composed of two young men and two young women spends a week at a parish, catechising the elementary school students (ages 5 - 13) during the day and the high - school students (ages 14 - 18) in the evenings.

I was helping students start exciting new lives at college even as their parents were, in a sense, mourning the loss of their children to adulthood, and as I was more and more coming to realize that we all were going to mourn the loss of Susan.

To avoid burnout, Solomon Rexius, who pastors and trains college students at Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, keeps an eye on the posture of his heart, even when he powers through in obedience to do ministry work.

Among the 700,000 or so Dreamers are plenty of young church leaders, students at Christian colleges, and even members of World Relief's own staff.

Meyer says today's college students have greater expectations for fresh food than previous generations, to the point at which they will pass up wrapped sandwiches in a cold case, even if the sandwiches were made less than an hour beforehand.

TIP: If you're a college student in a dorm room, (or even someone who stays at the office all day) do yourself a favor and ask a loved one for a Nutribullet as a gift to take with you (or even buy one yourself if you have some money saved up).

I was even using some cheap salmon fillets I found at wal - mart (I'm a college student), and it tastes amazing.

I'm mom to two young men who at times have felt a bit disgruntled that their feminist girlfriends or dates expected them to pay for everything, even when they were financially struggling college students or in precarious job situations, and rarely offered to chip in — even for a tank of gas because they always drove, etc..

The cats were NOT my idea but my, at the time, roommate desperately wanted cats and I do love cats so I said that even though I thought it was a bad idea getting pets as a 21 year old college student in an apartment if she wanted to get a cat I wouldn't mind.

Many good private colleges and even state universities are within a reasonable commute of the Chicagoland area, enabling students to live at home rent - free plus still experience the significant advantages of campus life: face - to - face instruction, networking and social interaction.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

However, often students who take the AP exam, even in the sciences, may benefit more from taking the course again at the college level.

«The expansion of places for AAB students will lead to an even higher number of students from privileged backgrounds at our most elite institutions,» said University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt.

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

Lancman and Avella said they will push legislation in Albany to reform the voting process, including allowing college students to be election inspectors even if they do not live in Queens, which is currently mandated, in order to get younger people who are more adept at technology working in elections.

I arrived at college on the morning of the 22nd to find debates amongst students about the European Union in full swing, everyone excitedly discussing whom they we're going to vote for that evening.

I also recall the words of one of my professors from my philosophy class when I was a student at Lehman College: «My dear children, that blue sky isn't blue and it's not even a sky.»

And Tier 4 allowed those with a place at college to come to the UK even if the college was extremely low level — or worse bogus, not really a college at all — and the student spoke no English.

This year, New York approved the first - ever free tuition program at the state's public colleges, putting even more pressure on schools like Saint Rose to compete for a declining pool of college - age students.

He had a window of time Wednesday evening, between a television interview on Time Warner Cable News and a speech to economics students at Siena College, and the food co-op across the street from the studio seemed a perfect bet.

The utmost care has been taken to design and construct an immensely comfortable mattress at a cost that even a college student could manage.

Whether you are a college student walking to class late at night or you enjoy going for runs in the evening, a rugged self - defense product could come in handy.

And even students who received solid mentoring at a community college, and who are academically well prepared, may find the faster pace of university life unnerving.

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

The change creates an opportunity to raise what the report labels the «low levels of post-16 participation in science and mathematics» by encouraging students to continue their studies even if they are not planning to major in those subjects at college or attend university at all.

Jerald Kay, a psychiatrist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and an expert in mental healthcare at colleges and universities, says that some university counseling centers won't even see graduate students.

Katie Woolley is a couple of years behind Cooke — a Ph.D. student at the college — but she is already just as cynical: «Before you've even finished your Ph.D.,» she says, «you know the odds are against you.»

«Many (students) start drinking heavily almost immediately upon arrival at college, even though they were not drinkers through their senior year in high school,» it says.

Giving back to your community is very important, but if mentoring is indeed a motivating factor for you, then, as a graduate of both an HBCU (Spelman College) and a PWI (Georgia Tech), I would argue that the minority students at PWIs need your help even more than those at HBCUs.

TIP: If you're a college student in a dorm room, (or even someone who stays at the office all day) do yourself a favor and ask a loved one for a Nutribullet as a gift to take with you (or even buy one yourself if you have some money saved up).

I don't know about the other college students out there, but at my school students are already getting engaged and even married to each other.

But as a college student I couldn't justify getting glasses as I still felt insecure in them so I didn't get any new ones with a new prescription til I actually met my husband and would you believe it he wore glasses as well as contacts and almost forced me to get new glasses and wear them, even if only at night a few hours before bed.

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The ideas, problem - solving approaches, and knowledge of these students at UWC Atlantic College is akin to what we would expect to see at undergraduate level, and in some instances, even postgraduate level.

Even if two students from different colleges score similarly on a given placement test, one may be placed in remediation at her school, while the other passes into regular college - level courses.

I was aware, even at the time, that most college preparation programs focused almost exclusively on those students who already possessed the personal resources and capacities that were necessary to chart a college - going path.

• Debt and default among black or African - American college students is at crisis levels, and even a bachelor's degree is no guarantee of security: black BA graduates default at five times the rate of white BA graduates (21 versus 4 percent), and are more likely to default than white dropouts.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Even with intensive support, college can be a rough awakening for WHEELS students, according to Julia Forman, an alumni manager at NYC Outward Bound Schools.

So far we've played at a street fair, for staff and students at the Cal State San Marcos College of Education, and even live on local TV news and KPBS TV.

For - profit enrollment contributes to defaults even among students initially starting at community colleges, due to subsequent transfers.

Many of these schools are graduating at least 80 percent of their students and sending them off to college, even while facing significant challenges, such as serving high levels of low - income, minority, and special - needs students.

And yes, this will force students to actually understand their materials, provided the tests do more than multiple - choice trivialities, which by the way we find even at college levels for the sake of ease of grading.

Sadowski, author of Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students and on faculty at Bard College, adds, «Even LGBTQ issues in general are relegated to a small segment of a diversity class or a youth development course if they're covered at all.