Sentences with phrase «goal of a college degree»

To set and achieve the goal of a college degree, young people need to be developmentally ready, as well as academically and financially prepared.

Not exact matches

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Over two - thirds expected to earn at least a four - year college degree, and 96 percent of respondents believed that if they work hard, they could achieve their goals.

While this rate is four times the 8 percent average college completion rate of low - income black and Hispanic students and slightly higher than the figure (31 %) for all U.S. students, it is still considerably below KIPP's goal of seeing 75 percent of their graduates earn a four - year college degree — comparable to the rate at which top - income quartile students graduate.

Finally, the open letter with public policy recommendations says, «At least two years of community college rather than a high school degree should be the minimum educational goal.»

Trueheart explains that the goal is to determine ways to help low - income students of color succeed in college and earn certificates or degrees of some kind, by directing private dollars to these institutions.

There exists an orthodoxy among education leaders, especially those involved in the no - excuses movement, that a four - year college degree is the ultimate goal for all children, regardless of background, circumstance, or geography.

Survey respondents were slightly whiter, wealthier, and more educated than the average GOAL recipient's family; 73 percent of survey respondents were white or Asian, 68 percent had a college degree, and 43 percent reported making more than $ 60,000 (14.2 percent reported making more than $ 96,000).

Although community colleges comprise the largest part of the nation's higher education system, with a growing enrollment of more than 6 million students, degree completion remains an unobtainable goal for the majority who enter these campuses.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The majority of these schools are in more affluent districts, where parents have college degrees and encourage their sons and their daughters to do well academically, or in less advantaged communities where the community itself has rallied behind educational goals.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

The ultimate goal of these charter school networks is to get students to go to college and earn degrees.

Puente provides training to teachers and counselors at community colleges and high schools in writing instruction, academic counseling, and mentoring, with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented students who earn bachelor's degrees and potentially return to their communities as mentors.

MCAN continues to advocate for the Governor's 21st Century Education Report, which urges Michigan to adopt an attainment goal - By 2025, 70 % or more of our 25 - year olds will have completed a college degree, occupational certificate, apprenticeship, or formal training.

Washington, D.C., June 7, 2011 — Given the urgent need to increase the success of underrepresented students in college, practitioners from college access programs and youth development organizations find mentoring to be a valuable strategy in providing students with the emotional and instrumental support they need to achieve the goal of receiving a college degree.

The grants are being offered by the Michigan College Access Network to help achieve its goal of increasing the percentage of Michigan residents with degrees or postsecondary certificates to 60 percent by the year 2025.

«As a first - generation college student myself, I'm inspired every day to keep working toward our goal of having 60 percent of Michigan residents with high - quality degrees or credentials by the year 2025.»

A: Our goal is to prepare 100 % of students not just to go to college but to be successful there and earn a Bachelor's degree.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

A decade ago, Mayor Thomas Menino set a goal of doubling the percentage of city high school graduates who earned college degrees.

GEO Academies, utilizes the TAP framework to promote teacher and student advancement because we believe that regardless of socioeconomic status of our students, they can all achieve at a high level, pursue a four year college degree, and achieve their dreams and goals, regardless of where they live, what color they are, and what their family education level is.

We recognize that financial hardships make the goal of a college or graduate degree especially challenging for undocumented students.

In 2015, College Futures Foundation refocused its efforts through a three - part strategy with the goal of increasing the rate of bachelor's degrees earned by California student populations who are low - income and have had historically low college successCollege Futures Foundation refocused its efforts through a three - part strategy with the goal of increasing the rate of bachelor's degrees earned by California student populations who are low - income and have had historically low college successcollege success rates.

The report cards, as presented by Tami Pyfer during this week's meeting of the Governor's Education Excellence Commission, would also expand to include higher education, charting the progress of Utah's colleges and universities toward the state goal of two - thirds of adults holding a degree or certificate by 2020.

«One of the nice things about Bright Futures is that it supports the hard work of students and helps make the goal of obtaining a college degree more obtainable,» he said.

Our goal is to increase support for these students to get 50 percent more of them to and through college to unlock the lifetime opportunity a degree enables.

Grand Valley State University's College of Education offers a number of programs to help prospective teachers achieve their career goals including degrees, teacher preparation programs, and graduate teacher certification.

The Achieving a College Education Program (ACE) is part of a nationally recognized program that targets students who may not consider going to college and attaining a baccalaureate degree to be an achievablCollege Education Program (ACE) is part of a nationally recognized program that targets students who may not consider going to college and attaining a baccalaureate degree to be an achievablcollege and attaining a baccalaureate degree to be an achievable goal.

«As Oregon works towards the goal of 80 percent of adults having a postsecondary degree by 2025, it is important to understand which groups of students are less likely to access postsecondary education and which groups are less likely to persist in college,» says Ashley Pierson, Education Northwest Senior Researcher and lead author of the study.

It is now more important than ever for prospective college students and their families to consider themselves «consumers» of higher education and analyze carefully their investments in college degrees and credentials by assessing their financial outlays against up - to - date occupational earnings data and managing student - loan debt in the context of other life goals, such as the prospects of home ownership, career breaks for child - rearing, or an early retirement.

Veterinary school requires that the student have completed a large number of college science and math courses, so most individuals seek a bachelor's degree that is related to their veterinary goals.

The lofty goal: to more than double the number of four - year college degrees attained in the city's most underserved neighborhoods by 2018 through mentoring and leadership training.

With the goal of studying art education, she enrolled in a teachers college in Milwaukee, but was eventually unable to get her degree because of her ethnicity.

You don't have to map out your entire career path — in fact, I recommend that you use these first few years after college to explore different fields and types of organizations to discover what's best for you before committing to any long - term career goals — but you need to narrow down your search to some degree.

Counseling a caseload of up to 450 undergraduate and graduate students at Mississippi State College, utilizing worksheets, discussions, and interview techniques to identify student goals and shape a customized path to timely degree completion.

College may be a goal for some, but if this path doesn't feel right for you, or if you aren't sure an expensive degree will bring reliable returns, or if you simply aren't ready and haven't decided on a specific area of study, you'll still need to take your career forward after high school.

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College presents many opportunities outside of your degree program to gain experiences that can support your future goals.

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