Sentences with phrase «by college students as»

The most bike - friendly small towns are typically college towns where bicycling is considered by college students as...

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Pabst Blue Ribbon is well - known as an inexpensive, blue - collar, Milwaukee lager favored by college students because of its cheapness and accessibility — that is, if you live in the United States.

By game time, all of that was forgotten, as was the shameful number of concussions to student athletes, the academic fraud, the rash of criminal behaviour and countless other scandals that continue to swirl around U.S. college football.

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

Singles Day was begun by Chinese college students in the 1990s as a version of Valentine's Day for people without romantic partners.

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

Since this is not permitted by our government lender, parents can opt to refinance, as some lenders (i.e., SoFI, CommonBond, etc.) permit the college student to refinance the parent PLUS loans in their name.

A few years ago, I wrote an opinion piece on «pathway colleges» â $» i.e. private companies that recruit students from other countries and then «bridge» them into Canadian universities by providing pre-university courses, including English as a Second Language.

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

Student Loan Hero's mission is to «educate and empower college graduates» by providing them with the most intelligent methods of managing, organizing, and repaying their student loans, ultimately helping to free them from debt as quickly as poStudent Loan Hero's mission is to «educate and empower college graduates» by providing them with the most intelligent methods of managing, organizing, and repaying their student loans, ultimately helping to free them from debt as quickly as postudent loans, ultimately helping to free them from debt as quickly as possible.

Using the conventional total debt - to - income ratio, where debt is measured as a share of income, college - educated student debtors are by far the most indebted.2 The median college - educated student debtor has total debt equal to about two years» worth of household income (205 %).

Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.

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.

In June, Beijing banned online loans to college after a public outcry over students falling victim to aggressive debt recovery tactics — including requiring nude photos as collateral — practiced by loan sharks.

Students can self - identify as gay, but college officials consider each student on a case - by - case basis if it comes into question.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

The evidence strongly suggests that today's theological students are steered toward seminary as a result of post-college involvement in congregational life rather than by persons or studies in the college milieu.

Moody's racial woes, as told by these students and faculty members, are about a historically conservative Bible college struggling to embrace equality and pluralism.

It is, of course, governed by democratic laws (including federal Civil Rights laws), just as are the private clubs like those remaining in Philadelphia, Augusta, etc., or those set up by college students — sororities, fraternities, or the sort of club in the SOCIAL NETWORK which provokes such envious emotions in Mark Zuckerberg.

Most strikingly, it faults colleges and universities for the kinds of students they enroll, shaped as they have been by the forces of the larger cultures from which they come, while paying no attention to the kinds they graduate.

Their witness could be called «catechesis with a punch» - the outstanding content of their teaching is hammered home by the enthusiasm and energy of the teachers who as college students are usually seen as «cool» in the eyes of their youthful audiences.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

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.

Passion is a worship collective that serves as the musical arm of the wildly popular Passion movement, a series of global conferences led by Atlanta's Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio that brings together 20 - somethings and college students, united with the mission of «worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation.»

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

In 2013, 30 percent of college students reported feeling «overwhelmed» by all they had to do, as opposed to 20 percent in 1989.

Her community and student mentoring work have been recognized by the YWCA, who inducted Ms. Bazán to the Academy of Women in 2010, and by Working Mother Media in New York as well as Bennett College for Women.

Many of the young people who are students in the ecumenically oriented Christian colleges are as influenced by the Evangelical Union as they are by the Student Christian Movement.

I would love to make this but I am a college student living by myself so I have a quick question: do you think I could cook this and freeze half of it for later and it would be just as good?

The international Kona chain Starducks began as a modest business roasting and selling Kona beans in 1971, by three college students Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl.

However, college students can get blackout drunk at fraternity houses just as easily as they can at an off - campus house or apartment or at a bar by using a fake ID or in their very own dorm room.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

She carried a deep sense of injustice from her days as an amateur player, when she was forced to get by on $ 100 a week as a playground instructor and college student at the same time that she was making the Wimbledon finals.

Namely, we work to educate families that the criteria used by most college bound students and their counselors, such as name and prestige, do not acknowledge the importance of understanding an individual student's needs and how they «fit» with the mission and identity of an individual college community.»

Once the students start high school they have ways of checking and verifying data and records without your presenting that to them but it's certainly always good to have a resume as a back up but know that those websites are very heavily watched by the college coaches.

Sisters Megan and Jill Carle's third cookbook for college students is a good one, but it's intended for an audience that actually possesses a kitchen, as opposed to a microwave by the laundry hamper.

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

Unlike other addictive substances, Adderall is perceived as safe and advantageous by college students, which is probably the most dangerous aspect of its allure.

Deeply appreciating the need for stronger supports for families who are impacted by cancer and the unique leadership development opportunity that Camp Kesem provides for college students, Becky is honored to serve Camp Kesem as a Board Member.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has quietly dropped plans to raise passing scores on Common Core Regents exams in English and math by the year 2022 — plans originally pushed as a linchpin in efforts for students» strengthened academic performance and preparation for college and careers.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

* What happens to some students with the grades to now get into a SUNY college as they face stiffer competition for admission even to so - called «safety schools» by students who now might choose to go to a private college?

ALBANY — As a result of several years of efforts by Agudath Israel of America and the unwavering support of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, it appears that rabbinical college students in New York State will, for the first time ever, be eligible to receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

Thanks to legislation approved by then - Governor George Pataki, children of undocumented immigrants can attend public colleges and pay the same tuition as other in - state students.

[308] The comments were condemned as racist and unacceptable by several Labour and Liberal Democratic politicians, [309][310] and a King's College London student society revoked a speaking invitation to him on the basis of it.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

Includes Next Generation NY Job Linkage Incentive Fund, and provides that for the 2013 - 14 community college fiscal year, programs that confer a credit - bearing certificate, an AAS or AOS shall demonstrate that they are preparing students for current and future job opportunities by partnering with employers (note: there is no wording directly linking aid to such partnerships, as there was in the original executive budget).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into the United States illegally as kids.