Sentences with phrase «at community colleges include»

Those taking remedial courses at community colleges include both students right out of high school and adults already in the workforce.

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Speaking at the 20th graduation of Goldman Sachs's 10,000 Small Businesses program at LaGuardia Community College on Tuesday, the billionaire businessmen discussed a variety of issues, including regulation, talent acquisition, and cybersecurity.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

Budke, an NJCAA Hall of Famer who won four juco national championships in the 1990s at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas — including the»96 title, with Serna at point guard — had transformed OSU in five years into a Big 12 contender.

This mother of four works full - time while attending classes at Lakeland Community College, and takes care of a lot of folks around her — including her mother, and her three dogs, not to mention her students!

«We will abide by the decision, but it's interesting that the judge did not go along with public employees who tried to tell the court there is no financial crisis,» the governor told reporters (including NY1's Grace Rauh) after delivering the commencement speech at Bronx Community College.

Tuition would rise and security would be strengthened at Niagara County Community College under a tentative budget for the next academic year, which includes $ 250,000 for two armed peace officers and a contract with a local police agency to supply a regular police officer to patrol during the day.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

Cost estimates for tuition - free college vary depending on the model and whether it would include not only community college, but two years at all public institutions.

Other higher education institutions involved include: New York University; Mount Saint Mary College; state universities at Albany, Cobleskill and Plattsburgh; SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn; the University of Rochester and six community colleges in the upstate area.

Auditors said staffing, administrative expenses and operating costs at Nassau Community College were out of line with comparable area colleges, including Suffolk County Community College, Monroe Community College in Rochester and Westchester Community College.

Legislator Dixon also reminds residents that the Erie County Sheriff's Office maintains prescription collection boxes that are available throughout the county, including Erie County Community College's three campuses, ECMC, the Sheriff's Office at 10 Delaware, Buffalo and Medaille College.

It was what everyone at the New York Hilton, including Roylan Fernández of Bronx Community College and Carolina Martínez of City College, wanted this past weekend.

His professional experience includes being the Director of the Senior Adult Learning Center at Portland State University, serving as the Dean / Instructor at Mount Hood Community College from 1997 to 2000 and as a police officer for the Portland Police Bureau from 1980 to 1987.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

The items, some of which were labeled by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as «a horrendous thing to look at... dripping with fat,» include $ 4 million for Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno's alma mater, Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, and $ 6 million for a semiconductor training center at Hudson Valley Community College, also in Bruno's district.

It's not clear what type of evidence will be accepted, but it'll probably include household utility bills, mobile phone contracts, bank statements, library cards, enrollment certificates at a community college and registration with a GP.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. will join representatives of local community partners, including the Community Foundation, Mohawk Valley Community College, and the Literacy Coalition at a news conference to announce an exciting new program aimed at helping young people achieve the dream ofcommunity partners, including the Community Foundation, Mohawk Valley Community College, and the Literacy Coalition at a news conference to announce an exciting new program aimed at helping young people achieve the dream ofCommunity Foundation, Mohawk Valley Community College, and the Literacy Coalition at a news conference to announce an exciting new program aimed at helping young people achieve the dream ofCommunity College, and the Literacy Coalition at a news conference to announce an exciting new program aimed at helping young people achieve the dream of cCollege, and the Literacy Coalition at a news conference to announce an exciting new program aimed at helping young people achieve the dream of collegecollege.

The agreement also calls for Sloan Kettering to develop internships and educational programs for students enrolled at local universities, including Nassau Community College, Hofstra University, Molloy College and Adelphi University.

The area has received a stream of good news and major investments in recent months, including the launch of Norsk Titanium, a manufacturing facility expected to generate 250 new jobs by the end of this year, a $ 38 million state grant designed to boost enplanements at Plattsburgh International Airport, the opening of Clinton Community College's Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and the city's $ 10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant from the state.

The State University of New York's resident tuition is $ 6,470 at its four - year colleges and $ 4,350 at its two - year community colleges, but that doesn't include room, board, fees and books, which add about $ 15,000 per year.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

State University of New York campuses, including the University at Buffalo, Buffalo State College and Erie Community College, will no longer be allowed to ask student applicants whether they have been convicted of a felony crime.

The Summit on Latinos was a multi-coalition effort supported by NYC's Latino elected officials including Speaker of City Council Melissa Mark — Viverito; Council Members Ydanis Rodríguez, Carlos Menchaca, the city's top academic institutions the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, and community organizations such as the Hispanic Federation.

Students can use all three to cover full tuition at State University of New York or City University of New York college, including two - year community colleges, if their families earn less than $ 125,000.

The commission also includes: Dall Forsythe, a former state budget director; Jim Wetzler, a former state tax commissioner; Heather Briccetti, the president and C.E.O. of the New York State Business Council; Bill Rudin, a senior advisor at Brown & Weinraub; Jack Quinn, the former congressman and president of Erie Community College; and Denis M. Hughes, former president of NYS AFL - CIO.

Programme; state of the art ICT Centre for Federal Government Girls College, Onitsha; Free eye screening and treatment including provision of glasses for 5000 constituents; Annual charity programme for orphans, disabled persons, widows and less privileged; water borehole projects in many communities in her Constituency; and Primary Healthcare Centre at Umuerum in Ayamelum Local Council.

Other members of the newly established board include: Cindy Abbott - Letro (community volunteer), Erin Bahn (Kavinoky Cook LLP), Anthony Chase (Assistant Dean of Arts and Humanities at Buffalo State College), Karla Gadley (First Niagara Bank), Thomas Hayes (M&T Bank), Tod Kniazuk (Executive Director of Arts Services Initiative of WNY), Jennifer Persico (Mosey Persico LLP), Lisa Ludwig (actress and owner of Free Fall Productions), Jonathan Rivera (Key Bank), Sandy White (President, Mustard Seed Consulting Group), and Kevin Zanner (Hurwitz & Fine PC).

After a stint in the Marines, Radford, 45, became an activist and organizer on a number of fronts, including president of the student government at Erie Community College, a trainer with the Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence, and head of a youth detention center for at - risk kids and a homeless shelter for young women.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (secommunity leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (seCommunity Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Several notable projects Borough President Diaz is funding this year include $ 1 million towards the next phase of the renovation of the Grand Concourse, over $ 1 million towards renovations at both Lehman College and Bronx Community College, $ 500,000 towards a new building for the Pregones Theater, and $ 150,000 towards a dog run on Pelham Parkway.

At the Bronx Community College mayoral forum, other candidates — including fellow Democrat and city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — said Weiner is distracting people from the issues.

Future suggestions for the 2013 - 2014 included a new highway garage for county trucks, an agreement with Hi - Tor Animal Care regarding the location of their new facility, residency halls for out - of - county and foreign students at Rockland Community College, and continued monitoring and action on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

«Erie County and local governments will now begin to implement the initiatives included in this plan,» said Poloncarz, in a presentation Monday at Erie Community College North.

Niccole Villa Cerveny teaches geology at Mesa Community College in Arizona, including a research course for which students rate the susceptibility of ancient Hopi rock art to erosion.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

It includes recommendations to provide direct funding incentives in the PBF model for the success of one or more at - risk student groups, to introduce measures that wouldn't punish institutions for experimenting with new programs to increase student success, and to better understand the impact of PBF on community colleges before a larger proportion of state funds are tied to the model.

Authors from the paper, all of whom conducted research at the ASRC, hail from a number of CUNY colleges, including Macaulay Honors College, Hunter College and Bronx Community College.

Other possibilities include summer internships in industry, teaching at the local community college, or waiting tables.

A member of the Astronomy Department at Haverford College for 47 years, Partridge's accomplishments also included a productive research career, notable service to Haverford College, and significant contributions to the general astronomy community.

Jennifer has taught at most secondary levels including vocational, community college and university.

'» This festival session will include a panel featuring Johnson as well as Carrington Jackson, the Yoga in Action coordinator for Off the Mat Into the World, a nonprofit that bridges yoga and activism through trainings and opportunities for activism; Kerri Kelly, founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the wellness community into a powerful force for change; and Chelsea Jackson Roberts, who founded a community program for teen girls called Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp at Spelman College in Atlanta.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course fcollege that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course fCollege of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

His current research includes various projects on mental health, suicide, and education at community colleges.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's plan includes «elevating» the teaching profession, rebuilding schools, breaking the school - to - prison pipeline, the expansion of affordable preschool and child care, and making college more affordable by offering free tuition at community colleges and four - year public universities.

The discussion, which was moderated by Keppel Professor Robert Peterkin, included four panelists — Sandy Grande, associate professor of education at Connecticut College; Peter Kiang, professor of education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston; Ceasar McDowell, director of the Center for Reflective Community at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Thomas Hehir, HGSE professor of practice — who shared stories of catastrophe that they've witnessed in their lives ranging from the genocide of Native American Indians to the plight of disabled students.

Working with students and their parents, these diploma project advisers (DPAs) develop individual graduation plans that can include online courses, community college classes, and studies at alternative high schools.

Taking part in community initiatives, including delivering demonstrations at Banbury Food Fair, supporting charity dinners and serving a meal for hundreds of people at Reading Town Meal, allows students to contribute to the local economy whilst creating ties for when they leave any of these colleges and go into the workplace.