Sentences with phrase «access to college as»

Assemblyman Karim Camara, who is chair of the minority caucus, said he thinks the governor sees immigrants» access to college as a significant issue.

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If you have access to this kind of capital, and to external validation, your college education may not matter as much as it would have to someone with less money, fewer connections and less - developed skills.

As of 2014, the average student graduating with debt had borrowed $ 28,950, up from $ 18,550 a decade earlier, according to The Institute for College Access and Success.

As an independent college, those studying at ICC were also unable to access student loans for their fees.

Though it's true that sports can open up opportunities for those who would not otherwise have had access to college, to expect athletics to act as the vehicle, which propels one into family, work, and material success, seems grievously misguided.

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By affirming educational values, EC works to reestablish educational authority, equity and access as college admission precepts.»

This system meant that even highly qualified SHS graduates willing and able to enroll as teacher trainees found themselves wickedly denied access because the colleges could not admit them as a result of the quota system.»

Thus, ensuring that all New York students — from traditional to undocumented alike — can access financial aid to attend college not only helps those individuals, but the state as well.

A Royal College of Surgeons report highlights poor access to operating theatres and scans as reducing patients» chances of survival.

The Education Trust — New York Applauds Tuition - Free Plan for Advancing a College - Going Culture for All New York Students, While Calling for Expanding Focus on Access, Affordability and Completion NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class...

The new programs are expected to increase college access and support degree completion by providing wraparound services for students such as child and elder care, transportation, health care services, family and / or employment counseling, legal aid, and more.

Flanked by Assemblymember Millman and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Simon stressed her deep roots in the district and decade of experience as district leader, her progressive credentials and her work on community issues both big and small — from public transportation to traffic calming in Downtown Brooklyn, access to affordable housing and education, and saving Long Island College Hospital, to name a few.

Early college access: Spend $ 9 million to expand the state's Early College High School program, which gives high school students early access to college credits in high - demand industries such as technology, sports management and fcollege access: Spend $ 9 million to expand the state's Early College High School program, which gives high school students early access to college credits in high - demand industries such as technology, sports management and fCollege High School program, which gives high school students early access to college credits in high - demand industries such as technology, sports management and fcollege credits in high - demand industries such as technology, sports management and finance.

The Rochester College Access Network — formed in 2013 as a program of Rochester Education Foundation — is a collaborative effort working to give students that opportunity here in the Flower City.

Callers especially honed in on education spending and policy, tax policy and the Dream Act, which would give people living in the country illegally who came here as children access to state college tuition - assistance programs.

Though Contreras wouldn't specifically say why Henninger High School was chosen as the location for President Obama to speak, she did say the Syracuse City School District's «Say Yes to Education» program would fit in perfectly with the president's speech on college access.

With one of the classrooms for Mohawk Valley Community College's newly instituted small Unoccupied Aerial Systems degree program as the backdrop this morning, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. updated the progress being made in his Vision 2020 initiative which intends to ready the region for growth in the areas of high - tech education and training; transportation and housing and access to opportunity.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

Acceleration, most commonly known as grade skipping, subject acceleration or early admission into kindergarten or college, gives students the chance to access opportunities earlier or progress more rapidly.

In an e-mail to Science, the person listed on the journal's website as editor - in - chief, Raghavendra Kulkarni, a professor of pharmacy at the BLDEA College of Pharmacy in Bijapur, India, stated that he has «not had access to [the] editorial process by Elsevier» since April, when the journal's owner «started working on [the] editorial process.»

Deep male voices and high - pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker's body size from the frequency of their voice, according to research published April 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Yi Xu from University College London (UK) and colleagues.

In this two - track, person - centered model, the READY Program will help youth with disabilities gain access to college or employment as they transition out of high school.

Providing physically inactive adults access to online social networking about walking as well as personalized feedback did not add more benefit than just providing emailed tips, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

People tend to marry later in life than previous generations, so when they decide to settle down, they may no longer have access to the social communities of their younger years, such as college, universities, night - clubs, raves and evenings on the town with school friends.

As a student or member of staff at West Lothian College you have access to the.

Under the plans every school and college in England will be incentivised to appoint a designated senior lead for mental health to co-ordinate existing school - based support as well as helping children to access specialist therapies and other NHS treatments if they need them.

Paloma comes to Maker Ed after serving as director of the Posse Foundation site in Washington, D.C., a national college access and leadership development organization recognized by President Obama and the Catalogue for Philanthropy.

As a result, the college is also better prepared for inspections by Ofsted while the senior management team benefit from real - time access to critical information around its development plan at the touch of a button.

«The Lumina Foundation has become a leader in the support of work on issues related to college access, and I hope I can help them as they consider ways to do even more.»

Many students, especially those from low - income families, are often discouraged due to limited access to the resources perceived as necessary for selective college admissions.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

For states, that means closing gaps in achievement and making sure English - language learners and special education and low - income students have the same access to education as middle - class and upper - class college - bound kids.

Access to rigorous coursework is unevenly distributed across American high schools, as shown by national audits of AP classes conducted by the College Board.

«I am deeply honored by this appointment to the Board of Higher Education and look forward with enthusiasm to work with Chairman Desmond, Commissioner Freeland, Secretary Reville and my new colleagues on the Board in support of our public universities and community colleges as they provide a greater proportion of our youth access to a world class higher education that supports an innovation and inclusive economy in Massachusetts,» said Reimers.

Mandy Savitz - Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.

Burton began at HCZ in the College Success Office, where he discovered that children, despite the school's efforts to enroll children as young as possible, were still starting underprepared and without having had the same access as other children in the city.

As preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruitmenAs preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruitmenas a barrier to teacher recruitment.

WHAT Dr. Bridget Terry Long, a renowned higher education researcher who specializes in the transition from high school to higher education and beyond, will deliver a public lecture titled «Supporting College Student Access and Success: Making Sure Hard Work Pays Off,» as part of the American Educational Research Association's Centennial Lecture Series.

Despite promising new developments, most panelists stressed a greater need to reimagine the profession of school counseling specifically focused toward college access / readiness beginning as young as kindergarten.

An economist with expertise in access to higher education and college student success, Long joined the Ed School as an assistant professor in 2000.

Some of these changes focused on innovative ways to use data to inform college access for students or the development of apps as a tool to increase student enrollment in college to ways to help streamline the process for filling out the FAFSA application — the federal application students complete to apply for financial aid.

I believe my ongoing efforts through teaching high school history as well as leading a nonprofit focused on college access reflect my deep commitment to the complexities of urban education and to helping students through obstacles and hardships.

NHRP was founded in 1983 by the College Board, a nonprofit that advocates for expanded access to higher education and administers college - level exams such as tCollege Board, a nonprofit that advocates for expanded access to higher education and administers college - level exams such as tcollege - level exams such as the SAT.

But as this year's Commencement approached, Russell and the cohort asked Student Affairs if there was a special way to honor Afolabi seeing as how 2014 would have been the year that he completed his degree researching college access and success, community colleges, financial aid, and student success programs.

[1] While the election results dashed those specific proposals, the idea continues to appeal to many policymakers as a way of addressing rising college prices, growing student debt burdens, and unequal access to higher education institutions.

State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti ruled on Feb. 13 that, based on the legislative history and intent of the education law, the unprecedented board action conflicted with the law, which requires school boards to give access to military recruiters «on the same basis» as any other employment or college recruiters.

And, as well as classroom learning, links with community organisations and universities meant that students could also gain access to vocational skills or, through state of the art IT, participate in college - level classes online.

Underpinning the college's IT operations is a sophisticated eduroam policy which secures the network and allows students and staff from the college as well as participating institutions to access the network through a single set of credentials.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.