Sentences with phrase «higher education graduate»

Shaun Harper, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has studied higher education graduate programs around the country — the programs that train students to manage admissions, student life, strategic planning, and even diversity initiatives at colleges.

Employers in Australia are generally satisfied with the skills and knowledge of higher education graduates, with those in professional occupations scoring higher overall.

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As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

It's with this goal in mind that he founded The Flatiron School alongside Adam Enbar, a graduate of Harvard Business School, who two years set out to rethink traditional higher education.

Reports estimated that 390,000 jobs for labourers without higher education were eliminated in 2009, but 60,000 jobs for new graduates were created.

Higher education isn't cheap, and if graduates can't afford their payments, loans can become a major financial hardship.

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.

Of course, China isn't known for being particularly compromising when it comes to solving its higher - ed pickles: In 2011, the country's Ministry of Education notoriously announced that it would be canceling all majors that didn't produce employable graduates — largely programs that didn't accommodate the country's export - and manufacturing - based economy.

My oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and it is staggering how much the cost of higher education has escalated since I finished school a decade ago — to say nothing of the job market my daughter expects to see when she graduates.

Unsurprisingly, they found a strong correlation between education and wealth: Wealthy cities tended to have at least one well - respected research university, along with a higher percentage of residents with bachelor's and graduate degrees.

Results showed non-MBA graduate students ranked 12 % higher than MBA graduates when it came to working with people who have more practical experience but less formal education.

Overall, higher education still translates into better wages — those with a bachelor's degree, on average, earn more than 30 per cent more than high school graduates.

Historically, getting a higher education (i.e., university, graduate school, etc.) could actually be an impediment to starting a business.

Rather, they were concerned for the higher education industry itself, for graduates who couldn't find jobs, and for corporations who couldn't find what they were looking for.

I am 72 and retired, female and divorced, with graduate degrees and 45 years an academic in higher education.

Borrowing to complete an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree program is often the only means to pay for the cost of higher education, as the price tag continues to increase at public and private institutions alike.

This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education.

He regularly speaks to students, graduates, and advocates about the latest developments in higher education financing.

Of course, this would be a rather unfortunate irony: higher education is supposed to enhance a nation's growth, but with such an enormous debt burden, graduates might not be able to spend and invest enough to allow that growth to occur.

The libertarian threat to higher education in the name of productivity is seen in the «public policy» think tanks influencing Republican governors to «disrupt» higher education by holding it to the standard of measurable competencies, sometimes beginning and ending with salaries offered to graduates.

I'm no education expert, but I've jumped through enough higher - education hoops to know the practical advantages and disadvantages of graduate school that are often left out of university welcome brochures.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

I think that much of the critics» distress about changes in church - related higher education rests ultimately on their epistemological concerns: Christian higher education, the scholarship it produces and the students it graduates should be substantively different from its secular counterpart.

I am very ashamed of the education system in America that allows people to graduate from high school without knowing about the world around them.

I learned later that the only invitation he received from a department of religion in an institution of higher education for more than a single lecture was for a summer course in the Claremont Graduate School.

Bankers would be expected to be college graduates, but they normally learned the business of banking by experience in banks rather than by special courses in an institution of higher education.

Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

The population of Madien NC is 3,282 81 % are listed as «white» race and their education stats are: Less than 9th grade 10 % 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 19 % High school graduate 34 % Some college, no degree 21 % Associate's degree 6 % Bachelor's degree 8 % Graduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is edgraduate 34 % Some college, no degree 21 % Associate's degree 6 % Bachelor's degree 8 % Graduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is edGraduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is education.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

If they graduate from high school today, that's like barely out of grade school education compared to previous generations.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

Generally speaking, new college graduates will make substantially higher salaries in industry than in K - 12 education, be it public, private, or parochial.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

After she graduates from MSU this year, however, she plans to teach physical education at Everett High School in Lansing, and she is grimly determined to have the best girls» gymnastics team in the U.S. «Boy oh boy!

The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schedule.

High school graduates are half as likely to go into poverty, so when we talk about hunger as an education issue it's really about investing in kids now — investing in this country's future.

Being married to a Waldorf graduate (her high - school sweetheart), Waldorf education has always been a priority for their family — which became more of an interest and focus as their son has grown.

This past June, our youngest, Conor, graduated from Hartsbrook High School, and so reflecting on this journey through Waldorf education comes naturally.

Single parents who are older than recent high school graduates might worry that they will be the only ones their age in college, but returning to higher education is not uncommon today.

She didn't question the fact that the increased emphasis on writing and thinking — all stressful activities — at my alma mater, Hillsdale High in San Mateo, Calif., is a good thing, after I noted many of the changes were made by Stanford education school graduates.

I value the education I got stage managing plays at a high school that's never been considered for a «top schools» list as highly as the one received at the name - brand graduate school I eventually stumbled into.

America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year.

For the first time, researchers in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University have provided the strongest evidence to date that grade retention in the elementary grades hurts students» chances of graduating high school.

Education: Doc graduated from Fort Worth Poly High School in 1954 and went on to Texas Christian University where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education in 1958.

One of the goals of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is to provide all students with personalized, high - quality experiential learning opportunities, both regionally and globally with multiple pathways and delivery formats that will enable all graduates to pursue meaningful lives and successful careers.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

A graduate of the Toronto Waldorf School, Marisha earned her Honours BSc (Physics) from Trent University (Ontario), her BEd from the University of Western Ontario, and her MA (Education Leadership) as a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University; she received her Waldorf High School Teaching Certificate (Mathematics) from the Center for Anthroposophy.

We included control variables consistent with relevant studies: maternal age (18 — 24, 25 — 35, ≥ 35 years)[6, 11], marital status (married and unmarried)[6, 29], maternal education (high school graduate or less, some college education, and college graduate or higher)[19].

He was a 1973 graduate of John Hersey High School, where he participated in the marching band and then graduated from DePaul University in 1978 with a degree in Music Education.