Sentences with phrase «black graduates»

The default rate of black graduates is significantly higher than the default rate for first generation, low - income graduates (13 percent, not shown in table).

The expansion of graduate loans may have had a differential effect on black graduates, who have less parental wealth to draw upon.

Barbour, who was the first black graduate of predominantly white Crozer Seminary, knew the white mind - set and spoke the white dialect.

The number of blacks graduating from high school and college increased during the 1980's, the Census Bureau reports, but a wide gap remains in the college - going rates of white and black students.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

Its activities include assisting undergraduates with the graduate admissions process, mentoring local high school students, connecting black graduate students with faculty of color, as well as several social activities, including bowling, barbeques, and an annual formal with alumni.

Ortiz is a doctoral student in health policy at the University of South Carolina and a historian for the National Black Graduate Student Association.

She was honored by the Samuel M. Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association with the Ruth J. Simmons Award for Leadership.

Approximately 38 percent of white students and only 20 percent of black graduates met the academic - curriculum requirements adopted in 1985 by the state's Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, the report says.

For example, Does the increase of Black graduates stem from improved achievement or increased population?

It tells the story of her life, from her early days in Dallas, Texas, living through segregation and the Jim Crow era, to her education (she was the oldest living black graduate of Case Western Reserve University), to her marriage and family life, to her values as a Good Samaritan, and up through her attendance at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration in January 2009.

Hendriques - Wells made her mark early on as the first black graduate of the Ontario School of Art (now OCAD University) in Toronto, Canada (1947 - 51).

On average, blacks graduate from college with $ 23,400 in college loans compared to whites, who graduate with an average debt load of $ 16,000.

As one of its activities, the caucus coordinates the annual Ceremony for Black Graduates.

A Gallup poll released last year of black graduates of HBCUs and other colleges also sparked conversation, noted Robert Palmer, a professor in the department of educational leadership and policy studies at Howard University.

Maybe I'll even find another black graduate student or two.

In addition, Black Graduate Caucus members reach out to prospective and first - year black graduate students in similar fields to provide advice and support.

The Black Graduate Caucus was a real life saver,» says Angela Fortner.

The Black Graduate Caucus, established over 25 years ago, provides academic, social, and cultural activities for Princeton's diverse pan-African community.

When Ellis Cose first conducted a study of black graduates of elite academic institutions back in 1994, he encountered a set of relatively - prospering folks who were nonetheless frustrated about the obstacles they encountered as they endeavored to ascend the corporate ladder.

Low - income and black graduates in both Louisiana and the rest of the U.S. are already at a disadvantage.

According to Judith Scott - Clayton, an associate professor of economics and education at the Teachers College at Columbia University, and Jing Li, a research associate in the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at the college, black graduates have almost $ 53,000 in student loans four years after graduation, close to double the amount white graduates hold.

Four years after graduation, black graduates are three times more likely to default on their student loans than whites.

He would be the first in a number of instances — the first black graduate of law school, the first black graduate to earn Phi Beta Kappa, the first president of the Des Moines NAACP (the first chapter to emerge west of the Mississippi River), and the first black attorney to argue before the Iowa State Supreme Court.