Sentences with phrase «college access education»

The YWCA provides college access education to immigrant high school girls.

Not exact matches

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.

A parallel concern is the sense that the primary path to generational advancement — access to quality education — is increasingly a product of privilege given skyrocketing college costs.

If you have access to this kind of capital, and to external validation, your college education may not matter as much as it would have to someone with less money, fewer connections and less - developed skills.

Swaminathan says that many students in China lacked access to cutting - edge management education after graduating from college.

Given the desire of Jews to see their sons in the learned professions, and given their urbanization and hence their access to free college education, and given the assiduity of Jewish children, a clash was inevitable.

One of the greatest benefits of getting a college education is having access to amazing alums who've been in your shoes.

Under Mr. Fairbank's leadership, Capital One has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, supporting a number of area programs focused on community redevelopment and youth education, including DC Cares, the DC College Access Program and Junior Achievement.

The Institute for College Access and Success recommends eliminating higher education tax provisions as well, instead funneling the money into Pell Grants and incentive funds.

You can use the money for qualified higher - education expenses, including tuition at a college, university, trade school, or vocational school, as well as room and board, fees, books, supplies, equipment, computer hardware and software, and internet access and related services.

In a 2011 survey, 88 % of young people said that entrepreneurship education is vitally important, given the new economy — and yet 74 % of college students had no access to entrepreneurship resources on campus.

That way, B.J. reasons, Michelle can get access to the lucrative sponsorship deals while still getting her college education.

It became concurrent with widespread availability and access to education (especially college education) throughout the country for both men, and women.

The Education Trust — New York Applauds Tuition - Free Plan for Advancing a College - Going Culture for All New York Students, While Calling for Expanding Focus on Access, Affordability and Completion NEW YORK — As New York leaders work to finalize the state budget including Governor Cuomo's landmark tuition - free degree proposal for middle - class...

The metro mayor should use his or her influence and informal powers to better link businesses with colleges and universities to ensure that courses and vocational education match the needs and opportunities of the city region's businesses, and provide residents with higher skills and better access to opportunities in the future.

Government is also building and commissioning more Community Day Senior High schools, to increase access and to reduce imbalance in the provision of education across the country.This is the vision of the government; to transform Ghana into a leading education hub, for the West African Sub-region, and it was also building new universities, training colleges and vocational schools across the country.

Rights for the Undocumented: Zephyr Teachout supports providing access to state financial assistance for higher education to those immigrants wishing to pursue a college degree.and she supports providing drivers license to immigrants.

Beginning this summer, parents and guardians will be able to use an online DOHMN portal to access and print immunization records that are needed for Department of Education enrollment and verification, college admissions and camp enrollment.

Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

Herzek's positive statements on the proposal and access to higher education generally, and his statistic about the percentage of low - income students attending his college, appear verbatim in his endorsement from the governor's press release.

«We will not tolerate the previous generation passing on its debts to the next, nor will we pick up the bill to access a college and university education that was funded for them.»

The brochure tells how education «unlocked doors» for Blake and how improving local schools will provide access to college and good jobs for young people.

«Here's What College Education Costs Students Around The World», Business Insider, June 8, 2012, Accessed Jan. 20, 2017

This is the latest project to be completed in the Campus Center, a community education facility designed to make General Education Development (GED), college degree and certificate programs available to residents with limited access to higher eeducation facility designed to make General Education Development (GED), college degree and certificate programs available to residents with limited access to higher eEducation Development (GED), college degree and certificate programs available to residents with limited access to higher educationeducation.

The Excelsior Scholarship could help improve the perception of college affordability, which can itself be a barrier to access, and foster a college - going culture by giving parents and students hope that a postsecondary education is within reach.

Flanked by Assemblymember Millman and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Simon stressed her deep roots in the district and decade of experience as district leader, her progressive credentials and her work on community issues both big and small — from public transportation to traffic calming in Downtown Brooklyn, access to affordable housing and education, and saving Long Island College Hospital, to name a few.

Additional action is needed to address college access, affordability, and completion so that higher education becomes a true pathway to opportunity for all New Yorkers.

The Rochester College Access Network — formed in 2013 as a program of Rochester Education Foundation — is a collaborative effort working to give students that opportunity here in the Flower City.

Inmates at 17 correctional facilities in New York will soon have greater access to a college education, thanks to a $ 7.3 million initiative announced by Cuomo and Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr..

«This budget proposal represents the Assembly Majority's unwavering commitment to ensuring that our students have access to a high quality, affordable college education,» said Glick.

Callers especially honed in on education spending and policy, tax policy and the Dream Act, which would give people living in the country illegally who came here as children access to state college tuition - assistance programs.

The budget also includes $ 17 million for the Mayor's Equity & Excellence plan, to improve college access, and $ 9 million to ensure elementary schools comply with state physical education mandates.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

Though Contreras wouldn't specifically say why Henninger High School was chosen as the location for President Obama to speak, she did say the Syracuse City School District's «Say Yes to Education» program would fit in perfectly with the president's speech on college access.

With one of the classrooms for Mohawk Valley Community College's newly instituted small Unoccupied Aerial Systems degree program as the backdrop this morning, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. updated the progress being made in his Vision 2020 initiative which intends to ready the region for growth in the areas of high - tech education and training; transportation and housing and access to opportunity.

«Sen. Klein and his colleagues in the IDC have long supported the Dream Act because they believe every high school graduate should have access to an affordable college education,» she wrote in a statement.

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

And even knowing this, I will continue to fight for expanded access to higher education for low and middle - income students by: • Strengthening Pell Grants, student aid, student access, and minority serving institutions; • Reducing red tape for students and graduates; • Removing barriers for non-traditional students; and • Empowering consumers through «sunshine» and transparency in college costs & accreditation.

«[T] he three strongest determinants of access to graduate education [at these top schools are] college grades, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, and the reputation of a student's undergraduate institution,» she writes in her book.

Ensuring there are enough qualified workers and better participating of under - represented groups in STEM - related jobs will take providing better pre-college education, increased access to college education and STEM training, and improved tracking of science and engineering workers, experts told a AAAS audience.

2 B. C. Rodrigues, News release (30 March 2004) about report from Florida's Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padrón, A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low - income and minority access.

Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago will launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) program to help students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, gain access to college, employment and economic independence through a two - track, person - centered Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago will launch the Realizing Education and Advancement for Disabled Youth (READY) program to help students with disabilities in Chicago, Illinois, gain access to college, employment and economic independence through a two - track, person - centered access to college, employment and economic independence through a two - track, person - centered model.

The difference is that Lip is now an adult himself, and Youens is the only reason he has access to a college education, and so blowing up the relationship in a drunken rage has real consequences that go beyond a shift in the family dynamic.

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.

Her research focuses on access and choice in higher education, the outcomes for college students, and the behavior of postsecondary institutions.

College access advocates look at those numbers and want to double down on reform, seeking to improve the quality of remedial education, or to skip it entirely, encouraging unprepared students to enroll directly in credit - bearing courses, or to offer heavy doses of student support.

It is innovating within an antiquated federal regulatory structure that has historically prized access to higher education and tried to control quality based on a school's inputs — does it look like a traditional college?

The study by researchers at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., also warns that an impending shortage of college - educated workers could undermine the United States» place in the world unless the nation does a better job preparing young people for higher education and expanding access to it.

Given the growing importance and benefits of higher education to so many facets of society, one might believe that providing access to college for low - income students would be a top governmental concern.

Yazzie - Mintz, currently a senior program officer for early childhood education initiatives and co-director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs with the American Indian College Fund, has devoted her professional career to improving access to early education for Native children.