Sentences with phrase «few program graduates»

Few program graduates become farmers today, but the lessons learned are valuable for young people entering almost any field following graduation.

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After graduating from Stanford with a degree in mechanical engineering and product design, Sterling was bothered by how few women were in her program and became obsessed with «disrupting the pink aisle» with a toy that would introduce girls to the joy of engineering at a young age.

The Notre Dame graduate program has attracted a few Protestant students.

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

Last week was the first week of my graduate program (human - centered design and engineering if you're curious) and it's definitely taken me a few days to adjust to being a student again.

Last week was the first week of my graduate program (human - centered design and engineering if you're curious) and it's definitely taken me a few...

Studies confirm that graduates of the program wait longer to engage in sex; have fewer partners; and are more willing to talk about HIV with peers and relatives, take an HIV test and stay on treatment if they test positive.

It reminds me of when I graduated in 1980 with an MBA and the few women in the program were cautioned not to have pictures of their children on their desk at the risk of people assuming we didn't take our careers seriously.

For example, following their guidelines on education, all of our consultants have graduated from The Family Sleep Institute, an extensive 6 - month certification program consisting of over 250 + hours of training that is recognized as one of the few in depth and extensive certifications in the Sleep Consulting industry.

Some state - certified apprenticeship programs produce few graduates, have few participants to begin with, or have apprentices who languish in the program, he said.

Then, in graduate school, he took a few electives from the computer science department to ensure he had thoroughly learned the fundamentals of programming.

During my graduate program in career counseling, I was encouraged not to ignore my roots in research science, because few individuals with scientific backgrounds choose to retool in an occupation such as counseling.

Having experienced the loneliness of being one of only a very few minorities in an academic department, Inniss urges others seeking higher degrees to select their graduate programs very carefully.

Over the past few years, I've reviewed and critiqued numerous personal statements from students who were applying to graduate programs, internships, medical school, and other professional degree programs.

Fewer than half (375, or 44 %) of respondents representing 134 institutions (59 % of the total) reported having existing formal programs for graduate students to develop skills for non-academic careers.»

D. programs (40 years ago), the curriculum was basically the sum of medical school and graduate school; there were few cross-connections between the two.

She has been an adjunct professor in the graduate Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program at New York University for the past few years.

A few weeks ago, in writing a story about the Preparing Future Faculty program, I heard about changes in graduate student training and how those changes are affecting today's postdocs and new faculty.

For instance, the couple may have to decide whether or not the graduate should apply to programs in his / her top choice of specialty at the cost of possibly having to live in separate cities for a few years.

Indeed, graduate schools in the United States offering PK / PD programs are few — fewer still in Europe.

So, we should tell these students that it is likely that they'll find few other minorities enrolled in whatever graduate science program they join so they know what to expect and can prepare for it.

Although the field of engineering is dominated by Caucasian males and has very few minorities present, especially women, I am proud to be the first Native American Woman to graduate from the MSU program.

Of the 15 hydrogeologists in the Denver office where Zeiler works, only three have Ph.D. s. That's typical of the field as a whole: AGI estimates that university programs graduate five times as many M.S. students as Ph.D. s. Its figures show that about 18,000 hydrologists and hydrogeologists now work in the environmental industry, a few thousand in the mining and petroleum industries, and about 850 in academia, the only sector for which a doctorate is required.

Depending upon how they are organized, graduate training programs may present students with anything from a dozen to a few hundred faculty members who are approved to be thesis mentors.

A few programs serve science graduates who want to go into toxicology; UW, for example, just launched a certificate program in biologics safety to teach basic toxicology to scientists working at biotechnology companies that develop protein and other medicines based on large molecules.

Finally, the report noted that most biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States do little to prepare biomedical scientists for careers outside of academia even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in academic research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.

Most are graduate programs, but a few also offer a toxicology bachelor's degree.

When she was applying for graduate programs, she was an active undergraduate researcher but had mediocre GRE scores and a 3.5 GPA, with a few Cs in her science classes.

Therefore, subjects had been on campus together for 3 — 4 months prior to completing the social network survey, and friendships reported on the survey would have been formed either during subjects» first few months on campus or prior to entering the graduate program.

I graduated from a two - year program in Specialized Business, Hospitality and Travel from a private business school a few months back.

The opportunities of entry level jobs are few, while many companies are cutting their graduate programs.

Born in Arkansas, writer - director Jeff Nichols came out of the same film program as David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Craig Zobel, Tim Orr, and Paul Schneider, all of whom graduated within a few years of each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts.

Just a few weeks ago, I was introducing the practice to some graduate students in a highly competitive health sciences program.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

At the time, I was knee - deep in a graduate program at CU Denver (Information and Learning Technologies) and working on a Library of Congress funded grant at MSU Denver, so I was primed to make a few cognitive connections that otherwise might have passed me by.

Coming back to my hometown of Boston, I fell into an assistant teaching position at a summer school program, which I had only planned on doing to make a few dollars while I applied to graduate school to do something — anything — other than work on Wall Street.

But there are few stories on the success of students participating in these programs, the positive impact on their lives, and ultimate economic benefit to students and the nation if we have more high - school graduates and students attending and persisting in college.

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Warren Professor and Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education added: «In a media saturated environment, there are very few stand - outs when it comes to programming that can benefit young children in a positive way.

A few examples from the 2004 U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate programs help to illustrate the point.

To rank teacher - preparation programs, report cards average the value - added of teachers who have graduated from each program in the past few years.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

Compared to the few other school - leadership programs that can demonstrate increases in student performance, the Executive Development Program is graduating leaders at 1 / 10th to 1 / 20th the cost.

Such programs can be a lifeline, as schools can be punished or closed if they fail too many students and graduate too few.

The study found a serious shortages of new doctoral graduates compared with the number of available faculty positions in the field due to relatively few doctoral programs and low numbers of enrolled students.

It is also one of the few training programs to date to commission an independent study of its placement record and the performance of its graduates.

The second message, to program «A,» is «don't get larger unless you can improve,» and to program «B,» is «unless you can improve, you might want to graduate fewer prospective teachers.»

The report also said that fewer than one in nine programs for future elementary teachers, and just over one - third of high - school programs, properly prepare teachers to teach the Common Core standards, and about 75 % aren't preparing graduates to teach reading to youngsters.

A few months after we graduated from our master's program, Vince asked, «You know what we should do next?»

The school also has a distance learning program for students that are not able to attend classes and only need a few more credits to graduate.

At The Hechinger Report, we've written about dozens of attempts to get kids like my former students to and through college: microgrants, college counselors, programs to help students graduate in four years, community college guaranteed transfer programs, pushy moms, and investing in individual students like they're a promising stock option, to name a few.