Sentences with phrase «attended by graduate»

One idea from U of T seminars generally attended by graduate students and faculty which might be worth incorporating is the «two finger» gesture.

Not exact matches

Born in 1960, in Oliver, and raised on the Osoyoos reserve by his mother and father, Louie attended the local elementary school and later graduated from South Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver.

I attended the New York City program, which is co-sponsored by a city business - assistance service and is coming up on its 1,000 th graduate.

Reported by the school the student attended, indicates whether the student is (or was) full - time, three - quarter time, half - time, less than half - time, withdrawn, graduated, etc..

Dorothy Emmet was turned seriously to philosophy by reading Science and the Modern World in 1927, and won a graduate fellowship which enabled her to attend Whitehead's seminars at Harvard in 1929 - 1930.

Responding to a recent piece by Anne Hendershott on the decision of Cardinal Sean O'Malley not to attend the commencement at Boston College because Irish prime minister (and abortion - rights advocate) Enda Kenny was selected for an honorary degree and address to the graduates, a letter - writer....

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

These meetings are attended mostly by Millennials who are college graduates still struggling with intellectual doubts from college days.

After graduating, she pursued her career by attending the University of Southern California from which she earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene in 1982.

Certified nurse - midwives are registered nurses who have attended graduate courses in midwifery and been tested by the American College of Nurse - Midwives.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

My mental struggles and doubts were exacerbated by the pressures from my boss to attend graduate school in the life sciences.

Sharon also attended a professional development course organized by the University of Cambridge for female graduate students and postdocs and built a small support network.

«A job interview with a science graduate is usually a sad experience,» we were later told by one of the representatives of the companies who attended our first fair in May 2003.

The Research Councils» Graduate Schools Programme is open to any postgraduate student, but only students whose research is already funded by the Research Council can attend for free.

In his speech last night to Congress, President Barack Obama promised that his education policies would help more people attend college, ensuring that «by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.»

Authored by Charles Stewart, a third - year graduate student studying plant biology at Cornell, the article focuses on four very critical areas: research versus coursework, reading the literature, attending conferences, and networking with your peers.

And in June 2001 the programming committee capped the year with a successful full - day career symposium attended by 400 postdocs and graduate students.

The conference focused on the latest scientific developments and was attended by investigators, graduate students, and postdocs.

It was a full day of events, attended by 165 participants including faculty, lab members, postdocs, current and incoming graduate students, as well as administrative staff from the Division and the Center.

Those who attended were presented with personalized white lab coats by Kathleen Gould, Ph.D., associate dean for Biomedical Sciences and director of Graduate Student Support, as Roger Chalkley, D.Phil., senior associate dean in the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training (BRET) read their names.

Naturopathic physicians (ND's) attend four - year graduate schools that are nationally accredited by the Council for Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME).

Zoosk was launched in December 2007 by founders and friends Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh, who are originally from Iran, and met while attending graduate school in the U.S..

Wenders is also the only «member» of the 1970s German film movement to have attended film school (the then theatre director / playwright Rainer Werner Fassbinder was turned down by Munich's Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, from which Wenders and his long - time cinematographer, Robby Müller, and long - time editor, Peter Przygodda, graduated).

Assigned to a triple with two upperclassmen (Ben Rosenfeld and Philip Ettinger), the only other Jews living on campus not part of the Jewish fraternity, Marcus bristles as the expectation for all students to attend chapel services overseen by Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) in order to graduate.

School choice programs which allow parents to select the schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

When Teresa Weatherall Neal graduated from Creston High School in 1977, she went to work as a receptionist for the Grand Rapids superintendent by day and attended college at night.

An amendment to the No Child Left Behind Act authorizing the creation of single - sex public schools was sponsored by Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, but the measure passed in large part due to the support of Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, a Wellesley College graduate grateful for her opportunity to attend one of the country's premier women's colleges.

Low - income black and Hispanic students are by far the least likely U.S. students to graduate from high school and attend a four - year college.

Instead, all four were selected to be part of a small group of six Dillard graduates to attend the Ed School under a program sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education.

According to Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resegregation is contributing to a growing gap in quality between the schools being attended by white students and those serving a large proportion of minority students.

As research points out, small schools improve life outcomes by helping more students graduate, thus providing them with the opportunities to attend college, find meaningful employment, and become productive citizens.

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

And why imply that when Li and Scott - Clayton cite research showing that the earnings boost from a graduate degree is larger for blacks than whites, a finding they say can't be broken out by the type of school attended?

A rigorous study by David Deming of Harvard, for example, found that Head Start graduates were less likely to repeat grades or be diagnosed with a learning disability, and more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.»

While SEED - SCALE has been an influence for much of the work by the Taylor family, it has also been a «guiding process» behind the latest venture, University of the World (UOW), which aims to globalize higher education by opening opportunities to the world's most underutilized asset — the 100 million secondary school graduates not attending college.

Then, Smith attended an event sponsored by the Student - Alumni Mentoring Initiative (SAMI)-- a formal mentoring program offered by the Ed School's Alumni Relations Office that aims to connect alums and graduate students.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

We need to make it more possible for exceptional prospects to attend HGSE by alleviating the massive hurdle they face if they have to finance their own graduate education.»

But new research by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Luke Miratrix, along with colleagues Todd Grindal, Lindsay Page, and Avi Feller, broadens the perspective to consider the alternatives: What happens to the children who attend a center - based program (like Head Start), and what happens to children who don't?

Students of higher - VA teachers also attend higher - quality colleges, as measured by the average earnings of previous graduates of those colleges.

The 688 students attending orientation at Harvard Graduate School of Education last week were asked to go even further by practicing some of these cultural norms at the «Building Positive Multicultural Environments» session led by Lecturer Josephine Kim.

A recent report by the American Institute for Research (AIR) finds that students who attend deeper learning schools were more likely to graduate from high school on time and low - achieving students were more likely to seek postsecondary education.

I've done papers on deeper learning and a case analysis, a statistics assignment and a microeconomics exam, in between attending office hours to see professors, dinner at the Faculty Club for Australian students, having a birthday picnic on Columbus Day and going to Oktoberfest celebrations and a party organized by the Harvard Graduate Council.

A 2013 study by MDRC found that students attending new small schools in New York graduated at a rate nearly 10 percentage points higher than did citywide peers with comparable backgrounds and learning needs.

We might first look at Monroe Community College, the two - year postsecondary institution attended by high school graduates in the area who do not feel that they are ready for the university.

To proclaim that one test and one set of curriculum standards, the Common Core, can provide meaningful data about whether a child is college and career ready, that is, ready to attend one of the over 4,400 colleges and universities in the US or pursue one of the tens of thousands of careers that exist or those that don't but will by the time this year's preschool class, the class or 2029 or 2030 graduates high school, is educationally bankrupt.

And less than half of them graduate college - ready, as determined by the city's own Comptroller (whose kids, for the record, last year attended a private preschool — obviously, the man reads his own reports).

After a brief welcome by TCSA Executive Director David Dunn, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath kicked off the day with remarks and provided some information on his background which includes serving on the Dallas School Board for four years, attending a public magnet school in Garland and graduating from college in two years, starting a software company, and his work with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program.

She was raised by two hard - working Mexican immigrants in East Los Angeles, attended public schools in Los Angeles, and graduated from Harvard in 2008 with a degree in anthropology.