Sentences with phrase «conversations about college»

The barriers confronting that majority need to be front and center in public conversations about college, he adds.

We don't push conversations about college and college savings with any regularity — or with the threat «you better get good grades for college!»

Drawing from the research of Senior Lecturer Mandy Savitz - Romer, the workshop begins with an overview of the data and the current practices and conversation about college readiness and attainment.

TalentED's new, video helps college access professionals start the conversation about college fit with their students.

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Strike up a conversation about his or her hobbies, siblings / parents, hometown, sports, college, etc..

We have had so many exciting and fun conversations about business ownership and talking about my college days when I owned a small business.

They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Ms. Castro was applying to college, and they e-mailed often, bonding over conversations about Ms. Castro's difficult childhood.

We got into a conversation about God because she knew I was going to go to Bible College and she asked why.

I remember countless conversations in the dorm rooms of my conservative Christian college about how to defer to a guy as the «spiritual leader» in a relationship, an ideal that far too often resulted in women deliberately diminishing their own gifts, ideas, and dreams in an effort to better play second fiddle.

We strive to fill the campus with mature and ethical community members who engage in respectful and spirited conversation about the best way to shape a college community.

If we can't have these conversations from the teaching platforms at Christian colleges, then what are we saying about our pursuit of truth and justice?

One of my most vivid college memories is of a conversation with a good friend about my (to her) bizarre aberration of virginity.

February 25: Eastern Nazarene College Chapel — Quincy, Massachusetts Friday, 10:25 a.m. — Wollaston Church of the Nazarene I'll be talking about the Bible as a conversation - starter, sharing some of the ups and downs of my biblical womanhood project.

February 23: Gordon College Chapel - Wenham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 10:25 a.m. - A.J. Gordon Memorial Chapel Again I'll be talking about the Bible as a conversation - starter, focusing on the importance of «study» as it applies to the spiritual disciplines, and of course sharing some of the ups and downs of my biblical womanhood project

Not quite spicy, not quite sweet, ginger has a truly distinctive flavor that plays the same role as your wacky college friend: It livens up every party it goes to, but can also make every conversation about itself.

And while it is easy to become cynical about the money involved in college football, and the way it has impacted the game as a whole, 27 Trust me, that conversation is coming.

Then, for 50 minutes, the young men talked, with Bailys loosely guiding the conversation around the theme of what it takes to go «outside of the box» in your thinking and decision - making — a topic that was broad enough to encompass both a discussion about what it might feel like to leave Illinois for college and a long debate about the experience that Rashid, one of the group members, had had the previous weekend, when he was jumped by two guys while he was walking from his grandmother's house to a convenience store to buy M&M's.

I don't recall how the conversation started, but somehow he convinced me that he and his wife were only staying together until their daughter went off to college — she was about 14, 15, at the time — and then after that, they planned to divorce.

This led to Laurel and I having a conversation about the cost of college and how one chooses a college.

Advocacy Even though your relationship is changing, checking in on your child while they're in college can start important conversations about their mental health.

While yes, the girls like spending occasionally on things (Violet just opted to spend some of her Brave New World Designs earnings on this fidget spinner), we have had lots of conversations about putting money into their college savings accounts and also talk about donating money (Brave New World Designs helps lots of charities so that has been very cool for them to see).

Even though your relationship is changing, checking in on your child while they're in college can start important conversations about their mental health.

(Airs 11/02/17 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with former Republican Congressman, Williams College professor, and author Chris Gibson about his new book Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream.

In relation to internal conversations surrounding the program, he wrote that the Chancellor's office «has been in continuous communication with college presidents and state officials, including at the Higher Education Services Corporation, about details of the Excelsior Scholarship program that will be addressed in the regulations to be issued later this month.»

(Airs 9/21/17 @ 1 p.m.) An encore airing of a July 2013 In Conversation interivew between WAMC's Alan Chartock and Williams College Professor, Scholar and Author Susan Dunn about her new book 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler — The Election Amid the Storm.

Rather than be honest about the relationship, they're cultivating conversations on Facebook with high school or college pals to create distance, and the trust dissipates.

Holland, Michigan About Blog Hope College Off Campus Study / Study Abroad mission is to integrate the perspectives of international students and scholars into the campus community, to provide off - campus study opportunities for all students, and to stimulate conversation surrounding cross-cultural and global issues, all of which contribute to the internationalization of the Hope College campus.

I'm a single mom of 3 kids my 2 oldest are in college Iowa State i youngest is 12 he is special needs with Autism so I am careful about who I date, I work as an optician with Walmart Vision Center I love my job and I enjoy meeting people and conversation.

Rather than being honest about the relationship, they're cultivating conversations on Facebook with high school or college pals to create distance, and the trust dissipates.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

Orlando Sentinel Conversations Episode 5: The Sentinel's Trevor Fraser talks with Julian Chambliss, a professor of urban history and pop culture at Rollins College, about the importance of the movie «Black Panther» to...

Remember sophomore year in college, when you would have six - hour conversations about whether it would be morally defensible to kill one innocent person if it would save the lives of lots of other innocent people?

College admissions is an important rite of passage in America — a time for parents to engage their kids in deep conversations about their hopes and dreams, their values, and what kind of adults they imagine they'll be.

Conversations about access to higher education often focus on affordability issues, but poor academic preparation is an equally significant barrier to success in college, says Long, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Join a cohort of college and university presidents from a wide range of institutions as you step back from the daily responsibilities of the presidency and engage in candid and critical conversations about your challenges, your concerns, and your own leadership performance.

Highlights this spring will include a discussion about how hip hop culture can offer teaching and learning tools in science with Assistant Columbia University Professor Christopher Emdin; a conversation with Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum; a presentation by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan on his research on closing America's achievement gap; and a talk with autism activist Temple Grandin.

At a conference on innovative teaching and learning, I attended a memorable panel conversation about the skills that students should develop by the time they start college or enter a career.

Highlights this fall include a conversation with Claude Steele, social psychologist, executive vice chancellor and provost for University of California, and author of Whistling Vivaldi, about how stereotypes can impact education; a discussion about the use of race in college admissions with Economic Policy Institute Research Associate Richard Rothstein and Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin; and a forum about education leadership.

In a conversation, Usable Knowledge asked Warikoo, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to talk about why students in the U.S. need to understand the historical roots of affirmative action and how colleges can become communities where students can talk about racial difference.

Highlights this spring will include a discussion about how hip hop culture can offer teaching and learning tools in science with Assistant Columbia University Professor Christopher Emdin; a conversation with Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum; a presentation by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan on his research on closing America's achievement gap; and...

Recent events in Ferguson have sparked a national conversation about civil rights, and many college and high school students are joining in.

The Supreme Court may have ruled in Fisher v. University of Texas to uphold affirmative action in college admissions — but that decision won't signal the end of campus conversations about race and diversity.

In this Askwith Forum, experts will engage in a conversation about the tangible and intangible benefits of college athletics, with the aim of broadening how we think about the role of sport and its impact on education and society.

On Tuesday, March 21, the Askwith Forums will host Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, the oldest historically black women's college in America, for a conversation about leading for racial equity in sCollege, the oldest historically black women's college in America, for a conversation about leading for racial equity in scollege in America, for a conversation about leading for racial equity in schools.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said he's concerned that the conversation about debt - free college, proposed most notably by Bernie Sanders, hasn't focused enough on graduation rates.

«Amidst debates about college access and affordability, we think the question of employer needs should sit at the core of higher education conversations.

However, by focusing on college and career readiness and including meaningful comparisons for schools, we hope that these new reports will inform conversations at the local level about where schools are doing well and where they can continue to improve.

Digital Learning Day is coming up on February 6, and there will no doubt be a lot of conversation and debate about whether online tools can help students prepare for career and college.

«This brief is intended to serve as a tangible resource for practitioners seeking to ensure that their efforts — are based in research and targeted in ways that will produce the most positive outcomes for students — particularly given limited program resources,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With the prevalence and positive impact of mentoring generating a large body of social science research, IHEP and NCAN believe it's important to make meaningfully contributions to the existing conversation about mentoring to help support students along the high school - to - college continuum, and ultimately improve student outcomes and completion rates.»

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