Sentences with phrase «fewer students graduate»

Plus, 5 percent fewer students graduate with debt now compared to last year.

Current data does not demonstrate that fewer students graduate from Renewal Schools than in 2014.

«Too few students graduate from high school.»

In October, he pitched a plan to Kline: The federal government could mandate specific circumstances in which states and districts would have to intervene in a school — for example, in high school «dropout factories» where few students graduate.

But keep in mind that about 2,200 fewer students graduated law school in 2017, so the actual number of jobs decreased.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

At Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobs.

The U.S., meanwhile, is graduating fewer STEM students.

And with fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

In the United States, we graduate fewer students from high school, but nearly two - thirds of those we graduate go to college.

Unfortunately, with few refinancing options, many student loan borrowers tell us they feel stuck in loans with high rates, well after they've graduated and landed a job.

«With fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

First, the good news: if you have federal student loans and have graduated in the past few years while interest rates were still low, your rates are fixed.

Merton had graduated a few years before (1938), but as a part - time English instructor and half - serious graduate student he continued to hang out with other former and current editors of....

Every student who graduates constitutes a triumph; so few Ecuadorians complete college - level education that the title Licenciado («One with a college degree») is still used in front of people's names with as much solemnity as others might use «Doctor.»

The Notre Dame graduate program has attracted a few Protestant students.

Many ambitious students complete graduate school and find themselves stuck in heaps of debt with few job prospects.

While few of us who were seminarians and graduate students in the late «50s and early 60s are still Barthians, many of us, were then, and whether we stayed with Barth or, more commonly, departed from him, the in - depth exposure to his Church Dogmatics left its mark.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

Students attracted to church music in the «90s will find the prospects of employment excellent — a simple case of more churches chasing fewer graduates and offering higher salaries.

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

A few thoughts come to mind, based on my own experiences in working with a wide range of Catholics and evangelicals, both because of my experience of being a student in a Catholic graduate school (Loyola University of Chicago) and working primarily with evangelical service groups (such as my current position with the Salvation Army).

Last week was the first week of my graduate program (human - centered design and engineering if you're curious) and it's definitely taken me a few days to adjust to being a student again.

Along with a graduate student, he studied 36 infants in swimming classes at warm pool — one of the few actual studies into diving babies.

As a result, fewer undergraduate nursing students experience caring for women who choose physiologic birth, which presents a challenge for nurse educators and implications for preparing students to provide appropriate care for all childbearing women after the students graduate.

Honestly that was far fewer new clothes than I would have needed to buy to pump / nurse if I had a less flexible job (I'm a graduate student) or one with a stricter dress code.

General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018 Source: Kwabena Danso - dapaah Osei Assibey Antwi, Kumasi Mayor The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated amount of five thousand Ghana Cedis to Jackson Foundation, a philanthropist organization to help increase the number of professional teachers in the country The donation was made on behalf of the Assembly when students from Jackson Educational (JEC) under the Foundation, graduated as trained teachers to assist few in the system.

It has been suggested that he will say two - year degrees could transform university for thousands of undergraduates, and allow students to pay fewer tuition fees, as well as leaving graduates with less debt.

Next year I think the Regents will be impacted so I am presuming a lot fewer students will graduate.

NIH should limit support for graduate students to 5 years (and another 5 years for postdocs), the report says, and NIH and institutions should use fewer trainees and rely more on permanent staff scientists.

When a graduate student comes to IMCB, they are given the choice of a few labs that they can join.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

Thus far, I've met a few upperclassmen, and the first - year party held by the older graduate students allowed me to meet a great many more.

We all know quite a few former graduate students who landed a new job too early on and are still struggling to get their dissertation done, or even had to abandon their project.

But the support I got from a few open - minded faculty members — namely, my adviser, assistant dean, and graduate committee — and a few grad students close to me encouraged me to follow my nose.

She says most students have job offers by the time they graduate and a few receive several offers.

Professors and departments may therefore take on fewer new graduate students, choosing instead to offer more short - term appointments, often to postdocs.

So this fall — whether you're a new graduate student, tackling the distinctive challenges that start in your second or third year, or even further along — take a few minutes to consider whether a few seemingly trivial matters are quietly chipping away at your motivation.

It was mid-July 2004 when Christa Wheeler (pictured left) walked «with anticipation and a few butterflies» through the doors of the Cleveland, Ohio, MetroHealth Medical Center to begin her career as a Case Western Reserve University graduate student in biomedical engineering.

Over the past few years, I've reviewed and critiqued numerous personal statements from students who were applying to graduate programs, internships, medical school, and other professional degree programs.

Fewer than half (375, or 44 %) of respondents representing 134 institutions (59 % of the total) reported having existing formal programs for graduate students to develop skills for non-academic careers.»

The two researchers persuaded a few graduate students and colleagues to help and in 1988 began the Supernova Cosmology Project.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

A few years ago, Simon Lock, a graduate student at Harvard University, stumbled upon a potential solution.

«What we've determined is that this protein's ability to alter editing of mRNAs is not specific to just a few genes, but instead, its ability to bind to mRNAs is required for proper RNA editing of most mRNAs,» said Michael C. Washburn, a graduate student in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Biology and first author on the paper with Boyko Kakaradov of the University of California, San Diego.

A few weeks ago, in writing a story about the Preparing Future Faculty program, I heard about changes in graduate student training and how those changes are affecting today's postdocs and new faculty.

However, there are quite a few signs that his work is far - reaching: His often - packed lectures usually include graduate students from many different disciplines, and seeing «art history scholars laughing along with biologists, English, and engineering majors is something I imagine rarely happens,» Cham says.

When faced by these challenges, graduate students can whine and complain, or they can take matters into their own hands, as a group of students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) did a few years ago by creating the Industry Roundtable (IR).

I have fewer impromptu discussions with my graduate students and I don't dine at high table in college very often.

(A graduate student could probably still get a doctorate from CMU for designing a robot to do something as simple as climbing stairs without tripping or stacking plates and cutlery in a dishwasher, an assignment that might be evaluated by how few crystal goblets were broken when loading the machine.)