Sentences with phrase «as at times students»

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As a Ph.D. student at the time, I was no exception.»

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

Around the same time as his graduation from engineering at the University of British Columbia, he sold the company — a system that uses high - speed imaging to scan for defects in packaging — he'd founded as a student.

All Bridge students in a given country receive the same education at the same time — something personalized learning advocates generally shun as inefficient or, worse, ineffective.

Carpenter and Toftness found, as you'd expect, that most of the time students were lousy at guessing the answers to questions before watching the videos.

To find alternate suspects, Enrightand her team of law students are looking at similar crimes committed around the same time and in the same area as Hae Min Lee's murder.

«The business education I received at the University of Saskatchewan was invaluable in my own career path,» he said in a statement at the time of his donation to U of S. «I am confident it will be just as valuable for future Edwards» students at the University of Saskatchewan for many years to come.

By the time Lazaridis arrived in town as an electrical engineering and computer science student at the University of Waterloo in 1980, the region already had a long history of successful businesses and innovation.

Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to «learn at all times and at all costs.»

Many of the younger female students are pursuing degrees full - time, such as Jessica Dillon, 29, who worked for seven years after college, at Fannie Mae and Capital One Bank (COF).

If you've ever held an internship as a student, or even at a time when you made a career pivot, you probably either had a drab experience or a great one.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Restudent body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican ReStudent Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

As a student, you're in the right place at the right time.

Graduate students may borrow funds for their education through the Grad PLUS program, so long as they are enrolled at least half - time in an accredited college or university.

As a general rule, your chances of approval are lower unless your credit score is at least 660 and you have a history of making regular, on - time payments on your student loans.

This is because most private student loan lenders offer extended repayment plans and variable interest rates that seem lower at the onset of a loan refinance, saving borrowers money on their monthly payment as well as on the total cost of borrowing over time.

Buffet's study of investing goes back decades to his time as a student at Columbia when he studied with Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

It was incredibly useful for my big organization job at the time, particularly because of the students who all had big jobs to, I learnt as much from my peers as the professors.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

When you applied for student loans, you needed to meet specific requirements, such as being enrolled at least half time at an eligible school.

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

Since that time I have stood at the Ground Zero site as a student, as an NYPD chaplain, as a New York Muslim leader, but all the while as a New Yorker.

Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.

For others the beginnings were in college or soon after: «As a student at the University of Missouri, I took home with me at Christmastime a German Catholic, a Jew, and a Chinese student who had no place to go at that time of year.»

He recalled his time as a law student at Harvard.

, and drawing cartoons in notebooks, and teasing and gawking at girls, might be insulting to Mister Bossy, might be a sort of theft of his time and energy, might be a sort of theft of immeasurably valuable holy unrecoverable time from the other students in the class, might be greedy and low and a theft from our own best selves, little though we knew of those selves as yet.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Almost immediately after his arrival, Abdulrahman began a certification class as a CNA and less than two months later had enrolled full time as a Medical Assistant student at Everest College in Renton.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

The students thought that at least in more modern times any one entering Jerusalem as a king would use a more dignified means of transportation.

Understand first the meaning of a Sikh: A sikh means student of the true Guru, By the way, keeping long hair as a basic tenent of sikhism started at the time of Guru Nanak, term Sehaj Dhari sikh was adopted by those who wnated to evolve, just like you want to evolve it even further.

This hope was born in me one very hot day as I went for the first time with other students from Madras Christian College to help at a Leprosy Clinic.

In partial defense of this view, Parmenides» student, Zeno, showed that both science and common sense ran into paradoxes when they assumed (as they did at that time) that space and time are made up of elementary units, but still are continua.

Bishop Dr. Paulose Mar Paulose was a student of theology in Berkeley University in the United States at a time when Berkeley became well known as a campus of radical student protests.

As the only full - time staff member at Vertical Ministries, a non-denominational, student - led ministry that seeks to challenge college students to actively pursue an authentic and «vertical» relationship with God, Wallace relies on the support of volunteers to make everything come together week after week.

Eire's history has some of the same features that I noticed in his teaching during my time as his student at Yale.

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.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

«The South End» — controversial student publication at Wayne State University — denounces as hypocrites those would - be revolutionaries who spend their time taking dope instead of preparing for action.

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

At that time, of course, he knew nothing in particular of Lewis, but over the next three years as student» and more years after that as friend and....

@LeftCoastTex: No, what they're saying, Tex, is that, as the principal of the school, he did not know what each and every student (there can be upwards of 200 seminarians enrolled at any given time) was doing at all times of the day and night.

Ismail (whose brother spent time as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay) told the Yemen Post in 2008: «I was the matchmaker for his wife Amal al - Sadah, who was one of my students.»

But while 63 percent of full - time faculty at four - year universities and colleges nationwide identify as «far left» or «liberal» and only 12 percent identify as «far right» or «conservative,» Liberty University bucks the trend in attracting primarily conservative students and faculty — no surprise, having been founded by the late Jerry Falwell, Sr., of the (now defunct) Moral Majority.

One seminary teacher tells of being at his greatest effectiveness during the days that he shared with his students the blow - by - blow account of his dealings with real estate people as he sold his house to a member of a minority group and tried, at the same time, to act responsibly toward his neighbors.

The weakness of the philosophy as taught in the seminary at that time was revealed when it became clear that it wasn't providing answers to the questions students were raising «And a dialogue wasn't even encouraged.

At the same time, attempting to fill the ideological vacuum left by the decline of the old liberal - Protestant consensus is aggressive pluralistic secularism, growing out of the 1960s and flourishing as students of the 1960s become the tenured scholars of the 1980s and 1990s.

She was living in the area at the time as a recent graduate of Duke Divinity School and a college minister to students from Duke, UNC - Chapel Hill and UNC - Greensboro.