Sentences with phrase «for schools college»

Investments in education, college readiness, and technology for schools College Track is the education nonprofit Powell Jobs co-founded in 1997 to support teens who hope to be the first college students in their families.

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TranQool has signed up about 100 brand ambassadors, at schools such as Ryerson University, OCAD and George Brown College, who blog for the company and spread the word on campus.

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

They will hope and implore that the conversation turns to holiday plans and travel, to new babies and weddings in the extended family, school musicals, college and career ambitions, and that «cooked to perfection» turkey, for heaven's sake — not the tax bill or tweet du jour.

Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.

Nonprofit City Year Chicago has recent college grads lining up for a $ 12,000 annual salary to work in economically challenged schools.

The app, which allows users to post anything they want for anyone within 2 miles of their location to see, was crazy popular at high schools and colleges around the country.

Issa finished high school two years early, and then went to his parents» home country of Lebanon for college.

Klawe started with the hypothesis that if Harvey Mudd created an environment that was supportive and engaging for everyone; if the school built confidence and community among underrepresented groups; and if it demystified the path to success, a diverse group of students would be attracted to the college and succeed there.

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

While many people believe that spring break is nothing more than an excuse for wild college debauchery, it is actually the ideal time to get away from work, school, and cold weather — no matter your age.

Stonecipher's aviation school, which has a waiting list for people anxious to get in, has partnered with the local community college and is the exclusive training program for the Professional Helicopter Pilot Program at Yavapai Ccollege and is the exclusive training program for the Professional Helicopter Pilot Program at Yavapai CollegeCollege.

He wrote stories and illustrated cartoons for newspapers through high school, his Army service, and college.

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

For example, my company, UChic, found that our high school and college - aged women consumers want life - changing experiences, but often lack the funding needed to pursue them.

While that's not enough to make me regret attending Harvard, it certainly puts one solid mark in the «pro» column for any high school senior debating her college decision.

The company sells software subscriptions to schools and businesses that help teach financial literacy (understanding mortgages and credit, for example), responsible college behavior (involving hazing and alcohol consumption), corporate compliance (like sexual harassment and diversity training), and other programs.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

Whether you stick with your business, take some time off school or bail out and start a new business, college is a time for learning and experimentation.

For our company, it is clear that our target market of high school and college - aged women value extraordinary life experiences, yet lacked the means to fund them.

After graduating from Vashon High School, I began college at Kalamazoo College where I studied abroad in Costa Rica for a whole tricollege at Kalamazoo College where I studied abroad in Costa Rica for a whole triCollege where I studied abroad in Costa Rica for a whole trimester.

The authors talk with a high - school phenom who was hounded for months and offered hundreds of thousands of dollars to sign with a college.

It seems that the traits that set one up for exceptional success in high school and college — «self - discipline, conscientiousness and the ability to comply with rules» — are not the same traits that lead individuals to start disruptive companies or make shocking breakthroughs.

Melbourne company Vocation has acquired Perth - based Australian College of Applied Education and 50 per cent ownership of the Australian School of Management for $ 2.125 m.

If the connection to Walmart caused some Etsy sellers to cry hypocrisy, the investment was nonetheless a triumph for Etsy and for Kalin, who barely graduated from high school and who essentially conned his way into a college education.

For many students, deciphering the college aid letter is key to picking the right school.

A 529 plan allows a parent to contribute up to $ 14,000 a year — $ 28,000 for a couple — for certain types of school, including college and elementary through high school costs.

Corinne skipped her last two years of high school in Ohio to go straight to college at age 15, enrolling at Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia.

Last year, only 44 percent of high - school graduates were prepared for college - level math and 36 percent were prepared for university - level science courses, according to the National Math and Science Initiative.

For example, Montesano said some of his clients will overlook colleges that are «top feeders» into the country's best law, business and medical schools as well as Ph.D. programs, just because they don't boast a well - known or Ivy League title.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

By the time he or she gets to high school, it is time for a heart - to - heart about college.

In the end I chose to study at Boston University, a private college that promised a ton of scholarship money to help me pay for school.

I'm also in graduate school for my MPA in emergency management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, so the schedule is definitely full and it takes a careful balance to have some time to relax and not get burned out.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

«Conversely, if the population is becoming younger, a greater percentage of the population may enroll in high school or college; yet this tells us nothing about employment opportunities for those who want to work.»

Then shortly before Folt's arrival came the unexpected: college athletics» governing body, the NCAA, announced that the school was under investigation for alleged academic favoritism of student - athletes.

While the curriculum is designed for high school and community college students — and select schools will start offering the curriculum this fall — you don't have to attend school to learn to code in Swift, Apple's programming language.

An educational distribution arm makes many of the titles available at a discount for schools and colleges.

For example, among 30 millionaires, 33.8 percent went to an elite school, 46.1 percent had a college education and 20.0 percent had no college or there was no data.

«The return on investment for the best full - time programs is very high and I predict that trend continuing for the foreseeable future,» says Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business.

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

«They've carved out a niche working with startups,» says Haytham Elhawary, director of the Zahn Center for Entrepreneurship at City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering in New York City.

Top congressional priorities include aid to disadvantaged schools, Pell Grants for low - income college students, medical research, Amtrak subsidies, and water and sewer projects.

What happens between high school and college to account for such a radical drop in the pipeline?

The median level of revenue generated from student - related charges for all private colleges is 75 percent; at the top 20 private schools, the median was just 15 percent.

It is beginning with primary education — which is now beginning to stress tools that encourage self - sufficiency and entrepreneurship as early as elementary school — and extending to college, which is tiptoeing into the world of preparing students for the eventualities of self - employment.

Since neither knows what he wants to do for a profession, my husband and I certainly wish the one going to the private school would join his brother at the junior college.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.