Sentences with phrase «past graduates who»

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«The hope is that we're graduating a generation of learners who have exceeded the achievements of the past,» he says.

Students who wish to continue their education past their undergraduate years can look to Columbia's renowned graduate programs in business, law, and journalism.

Ms. Pao, a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, is married to Alphonse Fletcher Jr., a prominent Wall Street investor who has filed discrimination suits in the past.

He is a native New Yorker who is a past national president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

We are honored to highlight comments from some of our past graduates of our program who now run their own commercial loan broker finance companies.

The program is open to university and college students in their final two years of study or who have graduated within the past two years.

It is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and those who have graduated within the past two years.

With the size and athleticism that has some comparing him to hybrid star Shaq Thompson — the 2012 Grant - Sacramento graduate who was the Carolina Panthers» first - round pick this past April — Lamar has Division I programs looking at him to fill holes at cornerback, safety, and even considering him as a linebacker.

The underclassmen who have picked up where past graduates left off provide a bright outlook for the continuation of the Thundering Herd's dominance, but Carlson and Elk Grove are not ready to rest on any accomplishments earned in 31 games thus far.

Take for example, Jessica Ramos, a Cornell graduate, who, at 29, for the past four years has served as a model Democratic District leader in the 39th Assembly District Part A which covers parts of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.

Over the past week, he also has advocated awarding three upstate regions $ 500 million each for economic development and forgiving student loans for New York college graduates who stay to work.

Murphy (no relation to this writer), a cum laude graduate from Vanderbilt who received her law degree from Fordham University, has worked for the past several years for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr..

«I'm getting calls all the time, from as far away as the Lower Hudson Valley and Vermont,» said Larkin, who noted that HVCC's two - year program has graduated about 150 students in the past five years — all with jobs, as far as he knows.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Clifford Chancey, director of the PSM program in applied physics at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, says that all 13 students who graduated from the program in the past 5 years found immediate employment, with starting salaries ranging from $ 50,000 to $ 70,000.

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.

«A lot of the inspiration for this paper came from [the fields of] speech and computer vision,» says Thang Luong, a graduate at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who has built neural machine translation systems for Google in the past.

«It's not just you,» says Anna Ballew O'Connell, director of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has advised graduate students for the past 10 years.

Fortunately, an article in Bloomberg Businessweek provides a succinct takeaway of its effects for high - skilled workers: «If you're a recent college graduate, a doctoral candidate, or a highly - skilled professional who has been in the job market the past few years, you know it's rough out there.

For those of y ’ all who don't know, I went to Texas A&M University, and graduated this past December.

Independence Day — Bill Pullman This one almost made my 10 best list, but I couldn't look past the ridiculousness of Top Gun's Tom Maverick graduating flight school and becoming President, oh and not to mention marrying Stands with a Fist — who seems twenty years his senior.

With Greta Gerwig as an aimless but pleasant young college graduate who feels sorry for him, and Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh as survivors of his troublesome past.

The actor stars as Guy Trilby, a middle - aged loser who discovers a loophole in the spelling bee bylaws permitting anyone who hasn't graduated past the eighth grade to participate.

During the past 12 years, the period in which inclusion has been used more extensively, the number of students with disabilities who have graduated from high school has tripled; the number attending college has doubled.

High school graduate workers who reside in rural areas or small - to medium - size metro areas have suffered substantial job loss in the past few decades, especially in manufacturing.

If the program gets funded, it will begin admitting students in a couple of years — too late, unfortunately, for students like Gracie Hurley, who graduated this past spring and is determined not only to teach because she loves it, but also because she wants to change the mindset that going into teaching is a waste of an Ivy League degree, that it's not the noble career Ryan refers to.

We asked members of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB)-- a diverse group of teenagers who work with the Harvard Graduate School of Education project Making Caring Common — to help us understand how teens are making sense of the past 18 months and where they think we should go from here.

The program, which exhorts high - achieving young college graduates to commit to teaching for two years, has been criticized in the past by some experts who say the two - year enlistment does not work in the long - term interests of children.

Perhaps the most widely discussed critique of teacher preparation of the past decade, the hotly debated 2006 study by the National Center for Policy Analysis, Educating School Teachers, simply presumed that teacher recruitment ought to be geared toward new college graduates who would complete beefed - up versions of familiar training programs before being cleared to enter the same old jobs.

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

Seated among the HAA audience during Spence's speech was Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary at the Department of Education and a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, who told an anecdote of his 10th Harvard reunion when he encountered a classmate who had achieved success in the corporate world but was dismayed that Jennings, a fellow Ivy League graduate, had spent the past decade as a teacher.

And, in the meantime, we continue to graduate students who can not read or write past the tird grade level.

[19] Another reason states may limit their analysis to recent cohorts is that it is politically impractical to hold programs accountable for the effectiveness of teachers who graduated in the distant past, regardless of the statistical implications.

In drawing the fault lines between white parents and Asian parents in the district, the Times completely overlooks the local elections that were held this past November, where the candidate (a graduating high school student, actually) who was demanding higher standards and higher quality lost to the candidate urging a more holistic approach (exactly what the superintendent is now enacting).

Similar gains have been made for the 75 % of black students who have graduated, up 7.6 % in the past five years from 2010 - 11.

Over the course of this short, accessible book, developmentally disabled high school graduates Biddy and Quincy and their recently widowed landlady Elizabeth gradually transform from characters weighed down by their pasts — and by the labels society has assigned them — into people who can build friendships and careers and find happiness despite obstacles.

In the past, the Chinese government would assign jobs to university graduates, who had little say in the matter.

Most doctor loans I've seen are only for those docs who have graduated in the past 10 years.

FHA loans are particularly helpful for who want a home, but have little or no money saved for a down payment; including those just graduating college, newly married couples, and also those who have had credit problems in the past because of foreclosure or bankruptcy.

Student loan debt increased by # 12.6 billion, or 17 percent, to # 86.2 billion in the past year, and about 70 percent of students who graduated last year are expected to never finish repaying their loans.

Visual computing technologies company Nvidia offers employees who have graduated within the past three years the ability to apply for reimbursement of up to $ 6,000 per year to help pay down their student debt.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Headed by Louis Roots, an ECU graduate who had been working in the game dev industry overseas for the past couple of years, the studio has since produced an array of group games that have amused an entertained at local events.

My hope is that Capcom will learn from the work of its contemporaries who have crafted ways for making players graduate past the beginner stage, rather than taking the easy way out.

As part of a new programming collaboration 18th Street Arts Center andOtis Graduate Public Practice program co-present a discussion about dOCUMENTA (13), featuring local artists and curators who attended the international exhibition held this past summer in Kassel, Germany.

Otis Graduate Public Practice Studios at 18th Street Art Center As part of a new programming collaboration 18th Street Arts Center andOtis Graduate Public Practice program co-present a discussion about dOCUMENTA (13), featuring local artists and curators who attended the international exhibition held this past...

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KATSU is a new media artist who graduated from Parsons and works in Brooklyn, he has had a major impact in the graffiti and hacker communities in the past decade and has had his work featured in group shows at Fondation Cartier and Eyebeam and in media outlets from Wired to CNN.

Gracie Brahimy, who has been working in the arts since graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 2013, is currently the artist assistant to painter Katherine Bernhardt and has worked at both CANADA and Susan Inglett Gallery in the past.

«Ice cores are really cool because we have the best record of what the climate has been in the past,» says Taylor, a research professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., who did his first polar fieldwork as a graduate student in the early 1980s.