Sentences with phrase «college as a minority»

Funny, I have a friend that was accepted to college as a minority — receiving discounted tuition.

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We can use the tech sector as an example: when asked why women and minorities are underrepresented in tech startups, 49 % of male founders say that there aren't enough women in the pipeline with another 8 % of male founders blaming low recruitment into college STEM programs.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Today those percentages have grown to 16 percent (for staff) and 35 percent (for students), which compares favorably with the national average of 27 percent of all college students who identify themselves as ethnic minorities.

Like Trump, he had no interest in reconciling with his party critics or reaching out to groups that were skeptical of the GOP, such as minorities and college graduates.

They are now lobbying for the creation of a new position on the college's equal opportunities committee entitling them to the same protections as disabled people, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is using Gov. Andrew Cuomo's free college tuition plan as yet another example of how much more the governor might be able to accomplish if only his fellow Democrats controlled the upper house.

Assemblyman Karim Camara, who is chair of the minority caucus, said he thinks the governor sees immigrants» access to college as a significant issue.

As we enter the run - up to the 2018 midterm elections, Trumpism is weakening under its own self - inflicted wounds, the ambivalent legitimacy of Trump's election by a popular minority due to the eccentricities of the Electoral College, and a spreading realization that behind the economic populism of his campaign rhetoric is the most reactionary Republican economic and social policy agenda since the late nineteenth - century era of Social Darwinism and Jim Crow.

And, at the same time at a rally on Tuesday in New York City with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Cuomo touted his own record of success on issues he says are aimed at the middle class, such as reducing property taxes and providing free tuition at public colleges and universities.

As part of its URI application, Central New York asked for $ 50 million to create career pathways, attract new jobs, grow entrepreneurship among minorities — and incentivize «educational attainment,» the latter referring to a guarantee of college opportunities to Syracuse students.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino will welcome Westchester - based minority and women - owned businesses (MWBE) as they learn how to do business with Westchester County and construction company C.W. Brown / LeChase at the 2016 Leap Toward Success With Us event on Monday, February 29, at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry.

In 2003, she was hired by Rhodes College in Memphis as a William Randolph Hearst teaching fellow, a 1 - year program that supports minority candidates interested in teaching careers.

My current position as co-PI and deputy director of Bio-Link, the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Resource and Education Center for Biotechnology (see box below), gives me the opportunity to help train community college students in general — and underrepresented minorities in particular — interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Given these obstacles, it's not surprising that, although about half of all enrollees enter community college intending to transfer to a 4 - year institution, only about 25 % actually do — a gap that programs such as NIH's Bridges to the Baccalaureate and NSF's Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation aim to remedy.

Many minority students receive little exposure to the earth and space sciences in precollege or undergraduate curricula and have few opportunities to participate in research in these fields as college students.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

Xerox recruits at minority conferences, historically black colleges and universities, and Hispanic - serving institutions, as well as elite predominantly white institutions.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority instiminority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority instiMinority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority instiminority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

Yet the report notes that a longitudinal survey of freshmen finds «underrepresented minorities aspire to major in STEM in college at the same rate as their white and Asian - American peers, and have done so since the last 1980s.»

«We've known anecdotally for some time that African Americans are not as successful at getting R01s,» the type of NIH grant typically held by independent investigators, says Wayne Riley, president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and chair of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

Examples of potential ways to make colleges more inclusive include programs that train faculty, staff and students how to be allies for sexual - and gender - minority people; forming resource centers and student groups for these minorities; as well as creating and enforcing anti-discrimination policies that protect these groups.

Giving back to your community is very important, but if mentoring is indeed a motivating factor for you, then, as a graduate of both an HBCU (Spelman College) and a PWI (Georgia Tech), I would argue that the minority students at PWIs need your help even more than those at HBCUs.

Jacobitz also endorsed «bridge programs» that bring college - level science to high school students, such as the UCLA HHMI Pre-College Science Education Program that is designed to help minority students gain a necessary education to enter STEM fields.

As shown in Figure 2 - 7, underrepresented minorities as a whole comprised just 8 percent of academic doctoral scientists and engineers working in four - year colleges and universities in 200As shown in Figure 2 - 7, underrepresented minorities as a whole comprised just 8 percent of academic doctoral scientists and engineers working in four - year colleges and universities in 200as a whole comprised just 8 percent of academic doctoral scientists and engineers working in four - year colleges and universities in 2006.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

But House appropriators prevailed over their Senate counterparts in ordering NSF to launch a $ 15 million program for Hispanic college students, something that NSF says it's already doing as part of a broader outreach to underrepresented minorities.

Priority will be given to members of historically underrepresented groups, such as scientists at small colleges, minorities, non-traditional students, and veterans, among others.

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It isn't even as though the picture were entirely innocuous: its casual insensitivity to women and minorities (two white kids get scholarships to college, no black kids even talk about the possibility) is unwise to excuse as a cultural artifact.

Options that don't end in a bachelor's degree will fail to help disadvantaged students see themselves as college material, and predictably channel them into less promising options, forming an «educational caste system,» according to Kati Haycock, the president of the Education Trust, a Washington group that presses for better opportunities for low - income and minority students.

F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City — based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

Many of these schools are graduating at least 80 percent of their students and sending them off to college, even while facing significant challenges, such as serving high levels of low - income, minority, and special - needs students.

«This framework was designed specifically for Early College high schools — which serve low - income and minority students — as a way to quickly raise the students» proficiency and college readiness,» explains Donna Engelhart, a Trinidad Garza instructionalCollege high schools — which serve low - income and minority students — as a way to quickly raise the students» proficiency and college readiness,» explains Donna Engelhart, a Trinidad Garza instructionalcollege readiness,» explains Donna Engelhart, a Trinidad Garza instructional coach.

Minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We are concerned about the continuing decline in entries to A levels in modern foreign languages, and other «minority» subjects such as music and design and technology.

The state... fell short of reducing achievement gaps for minority students, improving reading and math scores as compared with the best - performing states, and increasing college enrollment.

Santiago argues that free college tuition can help minority students consider higher education as an option when presented as a more affordable choice.

As the minority K — 12 student population continues to grow into the majority in the United States, it stands to reason that the student population at colleges and universities will also soon become, says University of Pennsylvania Professor Marybeth Gasman, «majority minority.»

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

This might account for the fact that, at least as measured by graduation rates and college attendance, the end of busing didn't hurt minority students too much.

The idea is that introducing low - income, minority students to college coursework as early as ninth grade can help jumpstart their higher education while saving them money, and it is spreading across the nation.

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

The fact that just 23 percent of Black seventh - and eighth - graders in seven states took Algebra 1 (as of 2011 - 2012) is one example of how poor and minority kids lose out on college - preparatory education they deserve.

What Kline essentially proposes to do is allow states and districts to spend federal education subsidies as they see fit without being accountable for providing all children — including those from poor and minority backgrounds — with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.