Sentences with phrase «generation students who»

Word Generation students who improved their vocabulary scores also tended to improve their MCAS scores.

What's more, these ratios are even higher in districts with more low - income, first - generation students who require additional assistance.

The state budget standoff jeopardizes college access & affordability for low - income, first - generation students who depend most heavily on state aid and publicly funded universities like Chicago State.

The First Two Network targets rural first generation students who major in a STEM related course of study.

Not exact matches

And while she celebrated her acceptance to Yale by ordering Papa John's, Williams, who will be a first generation college student this fall, ultimately chose Auburn University.

«The technology companies are appealing to this generation of students, who see these companies as a fun place to work.

The brawling is about big salaries, offices, with soft leather chairs and jarrah - top tables, that overlook the Swan River, interstate and overseas trips, and the power to promote the next generation of young Laborites who, more often than not, hail from student union ranks on Perth's four publicly - owned tertiary campuses.

Reshef says that in Syria alone, there are between 100,000 and 300,000 college aid students who have left off their studies as a result of displacement and the conflict, and this represents a terrible crisis for education, and the risk of creating an entire lost generation.

«Most of our employees wouldn't have an idea of how to fill out a grant,» says Selfridge, who points out that many employees hired by the restaurant chain would be first - generation college students.

We've got a generation of students who are much more interested in working for startups, and we've got lots of great companies that need to reinvent themselves from within.

He continued: «Over 800 high school students from across British Columbia attended WE FOR SHE last November, and this event with Mrs. Obama will ensure that her words are heard by some of the people who will be most inspired by them: young women and the next generation of leaders.»

That music can not be swept under the rug for your comfort without creating a generation of students who are ignorant of music history.

He was a fantastic literature critic, who gracefully guided generations of graduate students to a better understanding of Paradise Lost and a rich collection of other medieval works.

When Hahn was a college student at the University of North Carolina in the mid-1980s, he met Jimmy Long, who later wrote a book about ministering to Generation X. Long predicted that Hahn would be part of a new generational ministry.

Kaufman is one of a remarkable generation of theologians who were roughly contemporaries as students at Yale.

Because of the diversity of programs in seminaries and the number of students who are not oriented toward congregations, the seminary agenda is probably wider than it was a generation ago, when most students were bound for congregations.

Fox acquaints his readers with the Niebuhr who was a preacher, perhaps pre-eminently a preacher; the Niebuhr who was pastor as well as professor to generations of seminary students; the Niebuhr who was (as a Jewish friend of mine put it beautifully) «a holy man.»

And I want to bless this current generation of Calvin students who are doing difficult theology, in real time, in real life, right now.

However, I'm 36, and grew up in the last generation of High School students who had to get updates and spread gossip the old - fashioned way — by a locker, between classes.

There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.

And yet, those who work with students meet generation after generation of young adults at the same stage of psychological and intellectual development.

Even such extensive works as the Gifford Lectures have been found wanting by the present generation of theological students, who may be put off by the dogmatic flavor of them, preferring works less overtly theistic and christological.

Last year Yale Divinity School bid farewell to a teacher whose intellect and character shaped generations of students who sat for his lectures, sermons and seminars.

Everything in society is now viewed through that very instrumentalized lens and unlike a lot of other people who hold the kind of job that I do, it's totally understandable that that would be the orientation, because higher education has done a spectacularly poor job of delivering on its promises: It has racked up over $ 1.4 trillion in student loan debt, putting an immense burden upon the next generation, not only financially, but dampening their ability to innovate and create.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

Community defines us and enables us to foster a new generation of thoughtful, socially responsible students, who will one day make our world a better place to live.

This programme was conceived to enhance the emergence of a new generation of students who are physically fit, mentally sound and socially responsible and well - adjusted to the need of the society.

He expects the town will have to go through high school yearbooks to track down generations of the students who left and didn't return to see if they are suffering any ill effects.

The National Union of Students (NUS) President Aaron Porter, who wrote a piece for Channel 4 News asking Lord Browne if he would like to start his adult life with debts of # 40k last week, said: «If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher education.

«With Black History Month coming this February, it is appropriate to provide support to a new generation of students who will soon be making history thanks to what are sure to be their many outstanding future accomplishments,» Borough President Katz said.

Many factors may have contributed to NAMSS's success in bringing in more minorities to STEM, but from Vergun's perspective, the most important ones have been the intensive science training and mentoring that undergraduate participants receive, the mentoring the students themselves provide to younger generations, and the cultural knowledge that the students share with those who mentor them.

For many of us, especially those who are first - generation graduate students, that what we do at «school» is foreign to a lot of our friends and family.

«The proposed hydricity concept represents a potential breakthrough solution for continuous and efficient power generation,» said Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University's Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, who worked with chemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other researchers.

Vertex university scholarships, for example, include ongoing help for first - generation college students and others who might need extra mentoring.

Why are some students, especially those who are first generation college students or from low - income households, not applying for or consistently receiving financial aid?

«If they are first - generation students [who] overcame obstacles to get into universities, or are working to put themselves through school, those things stand out,» she says.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

The authors advocate that colleges and universities focus greater attention on developing student values and other personal qualities that will produce a new generation of citizens who are committed to creating a more just and equitable society.

However, contrary to an earlier generation of research, there are no significant differences in BA completion rates between those students who started at a community college and successfully transferred and their peers who began at four - year schools.

He educated generations of students and mentored many who have guided United States foreign policy for both Democratic and Republican presidents.

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«The extra copy of the Guy1 gene is only passed down to half of the progeny, leaving some females among the mosquitoes that did not inherit the gene in the next generation,» said Frank Criscione, who is the first author of the paper and worked on the project when he was a graduate student in the Tu laboratory.

«Despite his reputation for modesty, Dr. Nirenberg inspired generations of students and scholars who devoted their careers to studying the «code of life,» genetics and neurobiology,» said Francis S. Collins, director of the NIH.

Gladstone is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists — not just trainees within its own walls, but also young students who aspire to obtain careers in the exciting world of biomedical research.

I wanted to be able to pass that opportunity on to the next generation of students, particularly those who might not otherwise have access to a research environment.»

I'm an ambitious first - generation college student who focuses on her studies, but also wants more out of life.

Whether you're a student who is spending time at a university in London, or part of a Greek family that has been living in the UK for generations, you're welcome here at Eligible Greeks.

Huntsinger is helping to raise the profile of a generation of filmmakers, most recently Moonlight writer - director Barry Jenkins, who began attending Telluride as a student and was serving popcorn as a concession manager at the festival in 2008 when Huntsinger took an interest in his first movie, the $ 13,000 Medicine for Melancholy.

Afterschool (Unrated) Youtube generation drama about an internet - addicted, prep school student (Ezra Miller) who dispassionately videotapes the deaths of a couple of classmates instead of trying to save them after an accidental drug overdose.

Students who are the first generation of their families to attend college lag behind children of college - educated parents in earning bachelor's degrees, according to a federal study.