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Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more than 1,000 college students who presented design concepts for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.

The speech, given by Smith to students and faculty at the university's Terry College of Business, covered a lot of ground, but it frequently returned to security issues that kept the former CEO awake at night — foremost among them was the company's large database.

It was one lesson among many for the 32 students in a class titled «Genius of Warren Buffett,» offered for the first time this fall at UNO's College of Business Administration.

When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus observers had been witnessing for years.

$ 26 When the Higher Education Research Institute at U.C.L.A. recently released a study of religious and spiritual attitudes among today's college students, their findings confirmed what astute campus....

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.

I learned much of this at Bryan College from Dr. Kurt Wise, one of the leading young earth creationists in the country and a favorite professor among Bryan students.

Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating alternative pathways to graduation for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a career - related skill, advocating for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at someCollege found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at somecollege at some point.

Increase the number of articulation / automatic transfer programs between community colleges and 4 - year colleges, and foster more effective communications among students and faculty at these schools.

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.

While minority males struggle at the student level of S&E (and college period), no real progress has been made for either sex among S&E faculty, although minority males slightly outnumber minority females.

A descriptive study of safety strategies among female college students,» coauthored by Muftic and Ph.D. student Sara Simmons, is available at http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/publications/

It is commonly argued that students should attend the most academically selective college possible, since, among other reasons, highly selective institutions graduate students at higher rates.

Using data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sStudents Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sstudents over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college studentsstudents.

The study provides fresh and generalizable evidence that «there is probably a serious problem with mental health in academia,» writes Frederik Anseel, a professor at King's College London who co-authored a study published last year showing widespread risk of mental health issues among Ph.D. students in Belgium, in an email to Science Careers.

It can be difficult to find non-gamers among college students these days, but from among a pool of subjects participating in a much larger study in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke, the researchers found 125 participants who were either non-gamers or very intensive gamers.

The researchers surveyed two groups: 333 college students from an introductory psychology class at a Midwest college and 437 adults participating in Amazon's Mechanical Turk workforce database, an online database of individuals who often participate in social science research, among other tasks.

«Additionally, two - year colleges haven't traditionally offered the same resources as many four - year institutions because they are commuter campuses and most do not have residential facilities, which is understandable, but those students are also among the population at risk for sexual assault.»

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks CCNY # 2 among public colleges with the greatest success in ensuring the social mobility of our student body; at the same time the Center for world University Rankings places it in the top 1.2 % of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

Priority will be given to members of historically underrepresented groups, such as scientists at small colleges, minorities, non-traditional students, and veterans, among others.

Nathalie Fuentes, a third - year biomedical sciences PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, was selected from among hundreds of students nationwide to participate in a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) held Feb. 5 to 8 in Bethesda, Md..

These projects connect science education and research among American Indian college students and faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) with mainstream higher education institutions while helping to address Tribal community energy priorities.

New research finds there may be a mental cost associated with casual sex, at least among U.S. college students, and how it... (read more)

At YES Prep North Central, the college - bound culture, high - octane teaching practices, and strong relationships — among students, among teachers, and among teachers and students — all fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

Among independent low - income students at two - year colleges, the completion rate was 22 percent.

• 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.

Among the problems Hispanic students face at the start of high school and college are an unfamiliar environment, a decrease in community and family support, and schools that are unprepared to meet their needs, he said.

More - demanding grading standards at some institutions, for example, could lead to lower overall grades among those schools» students, irrespective of the students» general college preparedness.

Among the topics discussed at this first gathering were free speech on college campuses, online learning and MOOCs, changing demographics among students, challenges to humanities, and student learAmong the topics discussed at this first gathering were free speech on college campuses, online learning and MOOCs, changing demographics among students, challenges to humanities, and student learamong students, challenges to humanities, and student learning.

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

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

Michael Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), in which he proposes a new functional separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to promote education reform and student achievement.

Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces academic performance by between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.

Unlike teaching a required course to college students with a common denominator of age and educational preparedness, the challenge at a community college is to create a supportive and active learning environment for the discussion of ideas, writing assessment, and peer reviews among a community of strangers.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

The report by the nonprofit research organization urges, among other recommendations, that states align high school exit exams with entry - level college coursework, that educators at the high school and college levels collaborate more, and that high schools prepare students for the independence they will experience in college.

The basis of Mathews» curriculum implementation stemmed from her realisation that maths classes were usually centred on abstract thinking, but the basics of concrete numeracy processes needed further consolidation among students at Brisbane Bayside State College.

The guidelines were released in June, shortly before The Wall Street Journal published a front - page article detailing charges by students, parents, and teachers that numerous students at Taylor Allderdice High School had offered money for homework, stolen tests, or used open dictionaries in taking college - admission tests, among other allegations.

The program's impact on college completion is generally positive but statistically insignificant; however, we find sizable increases in bachelor's degree completion among students who otherwise were at the highest risk for dropping out of college.

The research question for educators at St Philip's Christian College in Newcastle is: What is the effectiveness of problem - based learning (PBL) in the development of... critical thinking, collaboration, and communication among Stage Four students across two schools?

However, schools and colleges could do more to ensure that this trend continues and encourage entrepreneurial ambitions among students at an earlier age.Introducing business and finance - focused subjects into the curriculum will help prepare future entrepreneurs — and help resolve chronic educational issues.

Among the founding faculty was Chezare Warren, now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, a young math teacher who jumped at the chance to help design a curriculum for these students — many of whom had never thought college to be an option for them — that would consider their unique stories and focus on understanding the factors that would lead...

For example, we knew that, at CUNY, approximately ten thousand students were transferring among our colleges each fall alone, [19] and we knew that many of their credits were not transferring as they were supposed to transfer (as general education or major credits), or they were not transferring at all (students were not receiving any credit for many courses taken prior to their transferring).

The racial diversity among graduate students at for - profit colleges is striking.

«Decades of research and our own grant making provide clear evidence that supports the growing consensus among policymakers and parents alike that teachers matter most when it comes to student achievement,» said Vicki L. Phillips, Director of Education, College - Ready, at the foundation.

For this reason, we also examine two U.S. subgroups conventionally thought to have better preparation for school — white students and students from families where at least one parent is reported to have received a college degree — and compare the percentages of high - achieving students among them to the (total) populations abroad.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.