Sentences with phrase «as a college graduation»

Are indicators such as college graduation, productive employment, democratic citizenship, social responsibility or positive parenting also plausible measures of success?

As a college graduation present, I received 1 B share from my mom.

She has Robi, a 3 year old Vizsla that she got as a college graduation present from her parents.

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I ended up going to college in California and got hired as an admissions officer at Marymount College after gradcollege in California and got hired as an admissions officer at Marymount College after gradCollege after graduation.

Carrie Bohlig started selling Amway products just before college graduation nearly 10 years ago as a backup plan to go with her liberal studies degree.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

as a catholic who went through catholic school from nursery to my college graduation i whole heartedly believe that God does not condemn people from using birth control pills for their health and well being as well as from preventing pregnancy because if pills and condoms werent used future abortions would happen and kill innocent lives and men and women could contract life threatening diseases that could kill them

Jamaal Curry: Our students go in a lot of directions after graduation, and I think the college / university should act as a springboard to help students get in that direction they want to go in.

Although my background includes graduation from West Point, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two years.

First, he said, some young people will be able to borrow the money they need for college and pay it back after graduation as a small percentage of their income over time.

To date, two of my childhood friends have become major market CFO's, another invented a new kind of roofing tape, and one was recognized at his college graduation as the highest paid initial graduate in the history of his engineering program.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Just a quick side story, at my college graduation Thomas and I had only been dating about 5 months and he got me a Marc Jacobs watch as a graduation gift.

Along with another student from Laney College, she is organizing a wellness fair to give students dealing with hardships such as financial difficulties, domestic violence, hunger or homelessness, resources to graduate and find a job following graduation.

As I looked around me, I wondered how many married couples, a good portion about to be empty - nesters, would still be married for their kid's college graduation.

I've come to think of getting married as more akin to college or high school graduation than a romantic gesture or the real - life fairtyale we're led to believe it will be.

I admire the way that KIPP has been so candid as an institution in the last couple of years about their disappointing college - graduation rates.

Additionally, she is attending night classes at San Diego City College Extension to receive her certificate / license as a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) with an expected graduation date of January 2016.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after hiGraduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after higraduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high college or a career after high school.

When I walked out of my house today to attend the 14th Graduation ceremony of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), I merely walked to graduate as a student of the institution.

But Doheny repeatedly stressed that he was raised in the district and noted Stefanik left the Albany area after graduation from Harvard College to work for Republicans in Washington, including a stint in the Bush administration and as a campaign aide to Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

She received her BA in Biology from Pomona College and worked there as a laboratory technician after graduation.

Licensure in British Columbia requires graduation from an accredited Naturopathic Medical School as well as successful completion of examinations from the College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC) and the North American Board of Naturopathic Examinations (NABNE).

Whether it's drifting apart from your high school crew, moving away from your college friends after graduation, or hitting a hard time with a bestie, there are bound to be some not - so - fun friendship moments as we all navigate this thing called life.

If it wasn't during the school year, on the other side of the country, and the same week as my daughter's college graduation — I would be there!

We moved not too long after our college graduation so summer was the first season Nick and I got to experience as residents of the Big Apple.

I received that bottle of Vueve as a graduation gift from college before I even understood the goodness of Vueve.

Right after my college graduation, I moved to New York for a job as the front desk girl at a gallery in mid-town Manhattan.

While some fashionistas refrain from rocking a white bag for fear of staining it or ruining the pure white look, I believe it's all about the kind you pick and the material, for me... my Henri Bendel white tote that I received as my graduation gift from college last year is my perfect go to bag for a stroll in the park, a day at the beach or even heading to the office.

This year I'm particularly aware of just how much can change in a year as I think back to last summer when I was totally unsure of my path after my college graduation that spring.

If you'll pick any of these looks I've cooked up from West Town Mall, it's as if your costume got accepted into college with a promised job the day after graduation.

After college graduation, one of my politically active friends moved to Denver to work as an environmental advocate.

Some people still marry their high school sweethearts, but most people today don't get married until later in life, such as in college or right after graduation.

He rails against his parents when they offer him a new car for graduation, the final straw in what he sees as their lifetime of aimless materialism, then donates the remainder of his college fund ($ 24,000) to OxFam America, burns his credit and Social Security cards, and heads west in his battered Datsun.

Following college graduation, Cranston's passion eventually drew him to Daytona Beach, FL, where the burgeoning actor appeared in such community - theater productions as Barefoot in the Park and Death of a Salesman.

The project, now complete after 12 years, is titled Boyhood and follows Ellar Coltrane as Mason, from age 6 to age 18, most of his youth, up until graduation and his departure to college.

The two cozy up while in New York attending their son's graduation from college, and they take this one night stand back home as Jake begins to miss all of the reasons he fell in love with her all over again, now stuck in a marriage with the gorgeous but demanding Agness (Bell, What Happens in Vegas).

The reformed federal financial aid system emerged as part of the Obama administration's push to get more young adults in college and move them along to graduation.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

With Yoni Ki Baat, we gave space to stories often seen as taboo within South Asian culture; Blasian Narratives brought a multi-racial perspective; and the Pan-Asian graduation allowed Asian students who are first - generation college students from low - income backgrounds a place to have their accomplishments acknowledged and affirmed.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

His research on the impact of Head Start on long - term outcomes such as high school graduation and college attendance was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

For significant savings, develop relationships with local colleges and universities and offer to purchase used college furniture during graduation week as students leave for the summer.

Their colleges also have a higher proportion of low - income students, as well as a substantially lower six - year graduation rate.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

There may also be benefits that we are not able to capture, such as impacts on SAT scores, graduation rates, and college attendance.

There might also be benefits that the researchers said they are not able to study, such as the impact on graduation rates and college attendance.

The last few years have brought long - overdue attention to the needs of high - achieving, low - income students, as well as new initiatives to ensure that they have opportunities to take rigorous coursework in high school and apply to selective colleges upon graduation.

Clifford Adelman, a senior associate with the department's office of research, said that students typically are required to take core courses for graduation and that the obscure courses that critics like Ms. Cheney cite as evidence that colleges ignore the basics may not even be offered, even though they are listed in course catalogues.