Sentences with phrase «admit students in»

Jason E. Starr, Nassau County chapter director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said he hopes the office's efforts will force the district to admit students in accordance with the law.
Mr. Mikita has achieved numerous milestones for individuals with disabilities as the first admitted student in a wheelchair in the history of Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude; the first student in a wheelchair at Brigham Young University's Law School and the first recipient of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's National Personal Achievement Award for his advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities.
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.

Not exact matches

NYU President Sexton heads up the third most expensive university in the country (and, yes, my alma mater), but even he admits that this model is far from perfect and that there are too many universities charging students too much for too weak an education.
A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.
They met during an admitted students weekend at MIT in spring of 2009 and immediately took a liking to each other.
After finishing at UVA, Spencer was admitted into a master's program in the humanities at the University of Chicago in 2002, where he mingled with other students in his program including «Jews and Muslims, Africans and African - Americans, gay men and women,» according to the Point Magazine.
The Institute of International Education found that US universities admitted more than 1 million international students in the 2015 - 16 school year, nearly 329,000 of which were Chinese students.
The 270 admitted students — 90 from each of the three locales — begin the program together in late June at Chicago Hyde Park campus.
Prospective students who have been admitted to enter the Berkeley - Columbia Program in May 2012 will be offered three options: 1) enter any of Columbia Business School's EMBA programs, 2) enter the Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA Program at the Haas School, or 3) enter the new Berkeley MBA Program for Executives when it begins in 2013.
Students admitted to the Haskayne Co-op Program are required to pay a $ 50 admission fee to confirm their position in the program.
I met Richard Spencer in April 2002, at a three - day open house for students admitted to the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH).
Oh, so you admit that it isn't «illegal» to have students sing Christmas carols in public schools, as long as they are learning them for the musical concepts embedded in them?
Tom > «Oh, so you admit that it isn't «illegal» to have students sing Christmas carols in public schools, as long as they are learning them for the musical concepts embedded in them?
Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework - up to a year of it - in order to stay.
Oberlin College, named after minister Jean - Frederic Oberlin, was the first college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. Vashon.
Put it another way: if schools admit students and give them a reason to believe that they can survive in college, and the students make a reasonable effort, what right do faculty have to flunk large numbers?
Even more troubling, I've found that many white male pastors and seminary students have an even harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.»
The survival of institutions in the «80s will be linked to their ability to admit and retain students, both in the traditional 18 - to - 21 age bracket and in the «nontraditional» categories; i.e., anybody who missed out on a college education the first time around.
Perhaps their greatest contribution is admitting that religion no longer claims center stage in university life and must «compete» for student loyalty with sporting events, musical ensembles and lecture series.
More than four in 10 (43 percent) of eligible students admit they did not vote in the Presidential election of 1996.
I'm quite sure that the vast majority of students admitted to Harvard today merit admission, where «merit» is defined in this way.
Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.
That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.
Dr. John Kildahl, a practicing New York psychoanalyst and an adjunct seminary instructor, believes that we in the seminaries have been admitting too many theological students with high dependency needs and with consequently sustained and often serious psychological problems.
Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework — up to a year of it — in order to stay.
The campus pastor at North Park University in Chicago admitted officiating at the wedding of two men, one of whom was a former student and colleague of hers.
A young white podiatry student living in another Chicago project said: «The only difficulty in this project is some of the families that the management has admitted and then permitted to remain.
Why, one student wondered, would a tradition so eager to emphasize Mary's suffering with Christ be hesitant to admit that she suffered in labor as well?
This view becomes more ambiguous when increasingly large numbers of men and women students are admitted who are not «in orders» and require a different sort of spiritual formation.
Colored students were to be admitted as equals in all things.
In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 EIn spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 Ein spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).
Persons not in these industries, including children and students under the age of 15 will not be admitted.
When Minnesota won the conference title from Michigan in 1940 even the most hardened student political conspirator added an inch to his stature as he walked to the weekly party seminar, although he admitted the fact to no one, least of all to himself.
He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.
Based in Bremen, Georgia, the company can admit a maximum capacity of 93 students on a full - time basis.
Elk Grove Village Trustee and Youth Commissioner Chris Prochno admits she feels «really bad» about the furor caused by a survey the Youth Commission recently sent to high school and junior high students in the suburb.
I have to admit, as a former teacher, I used to cringe when I saw the amount of soda my students could put away in a day.
The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.
These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»
The Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast has allegedly refused to admit some students who were posted to the school by the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
In a similar fashion I recently showed a large group of journalism students the film Frost / Nixon and they all admitted to having formed a favourable impression of Nixon after watching it.
State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.
«If a head tells Free SHS Secretariat that «we can only admit 533» and it places 520 students, [but only] 517 enrolled, how then do we say that Free SHS has caused congestion in the school?»
Weiner resigned in disgrace last month after admitting to tweeting a photo of his boxer - clad crotch to a Seattle college student.
Children are admitted to Success's prekindergarten program through a lottery — the same way that students enter other grades — and students in the prekindergarten are then guaranteed a spot in kindergarten at Success.
The District Chief Executive for Asutifi North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Hon. Eric Addae has disclosed that approval has been given to the Ntotroso College of Nursing to admit its first batch of students in September this year to produce Diploma of nursing in various disciplines in the health sector following its approval and certification from the health authorities.
While state education officials maintain that the standards are necessary to prepare students for success in college and careers, they admit that the implementation was flawed.
According to Carl Diehl, approximately 10 000 US students studied in Germany from 1815 to 1914, 5500 from Yale and Harvard alone, including Charles Eliot who reformed the Harvard education (I invite to read the Wikipedia article which quite frankly admits that US education during this point was... suboptimal).
This unfortunate development is widely believed to have been caused by congestion in our Senior High Schools due to the large numbers of students admitted after government rolled out the Free SHS scheme.
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