Sentences with phrase «by college students of»

Amazon has just announced move that could constitute a true Killer feature for stimulating massive adoption by college students of ebooks — and Kindle ebooks in particular.

Rather, the results provide support for robust efforts to regulate the for - profit sector, to improve degree attainment and promote income - contingent loan repayment options for all students, and to more fully address the particular challenges faced by college students of color.

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Eighteen of the 34 universities and colleges that told the U.S. Department of Education that giving transgender students access to single - sex restrooms and facilities that correspond with their gender identity would be inconsistent with their religious tenets are controlled by the Southern Baptist Convention, according to public records obtained by both the Human Rights Campaign and the AP.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

-- Liz Wessel, co-founder and CEO of WayUp, a job site and mobile app for college students and recent graduates used by millions of people since its launch in 2014

That, too, is a creation of Daniel Zhang, who latched on to a day celebrated ironically by romantically unattached Chinese college students and turned it into a behemoth e-shopping event.

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.

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practicCollege Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practiccollege admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

Some are more fun than others, but by the end of four years, any college student should be able to see the benefit of having all of them.

A study conducted by Hanover Research found that 87 % of surveyed college students said analytics on their performance had a positive influence on their learning.

The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

Under Silagadze's leadership and vision, Top Hat has become the market leader in student engagement software, and is used by millions of students at three - quarters of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America.

The study by Indiana University surveyed 278 college students, and is one of the first to get to the nitty gritty of what people expect when they sext.

The speech, given by Smith to students and faculty at the university's Terry College of Business, covered a lot of ground, but it frequently returned to security issues that kept the former CEO awake at night — foremost among them was the company's large database.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

She was a college student in Cairo in the late»90s when she first learned of some of the pioneering work on emotion - sensing computing being done by MIT professor Rosalind Picard.

Its website was populated with reviews of colleges written by students from 280 U.S. universities, but College Prowler wasn't having much success getting high school seniors to shell out the $ 39.95 annual fee for unlimited access to the content.

«Most of our employees wouldn't have an idea of how to fill out a grant,» says Selfridge, who points out that many employees hired by the restaurant chain would be first - generation college students.

Sophisticated filters allow students to search for reviews of, say, Boston College, and limit the results only to those written by, for instance, male Hispanic economics majors from the West Coast.

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

A 2014 report from the New American Foundation estimated that 40 % of loan debt was held by the 14 % of students seeking graduate degrees and the College Board found that graduate students borrow an average of nearly three times more per year than undergraduates.

The Student Loan Report broke down the average debt per college graduate for the Class of 2016 by state, which you can see in the map below.

Although women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1988, they have earned at least a third of law degrees since 1980, were fully a third of medical school students by 1990, and, since 2002, have outnumbered men in earning undergraduate business degrees since 2002.

For months, the online voting records of the UC could be altered by any student with a valid College email address.

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).

We are currently pursuing various ways to enhance the value of the Consumer Credit Panel further by linking to property deed records, employer payroll records, small business credit data, and student college records.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such 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.

The administration of President Donald Trump is closer to watering down Obama era rules that protected college students defrauded by universities from having to pay...

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.

Another example is Eric's portfolio company Handshake, which has onboarded millions of students onto its college recruiting platform by partnering with universities for distribution, rather than by directly targeting students.

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.

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

An online publication for freshmen, by freshmen, providing students a platform to read and share relatable content about their first year of college — while also giving them the opportunity to be involved in the process of running their own publication

We began by analyzing data from our survey to better understand the burden of student debt that college graduates face.

With College Ave, borrowers can reduce the total cost of their existing student loans, current monthly payment, or both by refinancing or consolidating existing federal, private, and Parent PLUS loans.

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 %).

Your average college student surely knows that the real trick is to use Wikipedia to find the sources that are actually allowed by college professors: they are helpfully linked at the bottom of every article.

The average Class of 2014 graduate with student - loan debt has to pay back some $ 33,000, according to an analysis of government data by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher at Edvisors, a group of web sites about planning and paying for college.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

The event, moderated by Charlie Rose, combined two of my favorite things: meeting with college students and talking with my close friend, Warren.

A robust 68 percent of job seekers who are millennials said an option to work remotely would greatly increase their interest in specific employers, according to a survey by AfterCollege, a career network for college students and recent grads.

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.

The zygote to Facebook's fully developed foetus was a service called FaceMash, a «hot or not» ripoff for Harvard students created by Zuckerberg during his second year of college.

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.

Students can help minimize the cost of college by managing their finances wisely.