Sentences with phrase «large public colleges»

Will college admissions counselors have enough time, especially at large public colleges, to look meaningfully at dense digital portfolios of student work?

Not exact matches

Attending one of these top public colleges can leave you with debt below the national average and a large return on your investment.

Georgia ranks No. 1 in workforce development and has one of the largest university systems in the U.S., housing more than 50,000 annual graduates from 31 public colleges and universities.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

So «Prairie Home Companion» was launched on Minnesota Public Radio on July 6, 1974, moving from Macalester College to successively larger theaters, finally finding a permanent home in 1978 at the 630 - capacity World Theater in St. Paul.

The colleges — which are being investigated under the Title IX law — range from large public schools, Ivy League universities, private colleges and even some religious institutions.

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Before the start of the season we published our 2014 - 15 College Basketball Betting Against the Public report which explained how bettors could capitalize on contrarian value by taking large road underdogs following a loss.

Ten years after you've graduated from college, whether you left with a 4.0 GPA or a 3.4 will not matter, whether you graduated from a public, private, large, small, elite or non-name-brand college will not have made a difference.

The New York Public Interest Research Group reported recently that three of the state's largest insurers charge blue - collar workers significantly more than college - educated professionals with the same driving record.

Running in a more conservative district, she's even tiptoed toward the right, confident that her large primary lead — the most recent public poll was a Time Warner - Siena College poll that put Teachout leading Yandik 53 - 23 — won't hurt her in the primary.

«I wouldn't rule out rivalry, but what's also in play is that the governor sees how the public at large and those who vote in Democratic primaries are moving to the left on most of these issues,» said Kenneth Sherrill, professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College.

NCC is the largest, single - campus community college in New York's public university system.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

At 3 p.m., the Senate's task force on heroin and opioid addiction will hold a public forum, Fulton - Montgomery Community College in Room U104 of the Union Building (the Large Lounge), 2805 State Highway 67, Johnstown.

Erie Community College — one of the last public colleges or universities in the state to be approved for designation as a Start - Up NY campus — appears to be closing in on a deal that could bring a subsidiary of a large international money management firm to Amherst in exchange for generous tax breaks under the state program.

«With no clear front - runner and a large number of undecided voters, this contest is likely to attract a crowd of candidates,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Lisa S. Coico, the president of the City College of New York, the flagship of the largest urban public university in the country, abruptly resigned on Friday, a day after The New York Times contacted officials with questions about her administration's handling of more than $ 150,000 of her personal expenses.

Over 2,000 NYC Students Visit Computer Science Fair at The Armory The NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair is New York City's largest annual college and career inspiration event for public high school students studying computer science.

«We decided to investigate cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

Using the Education Department statistics, Mr. Chronister and Mr. Baldwin found that private liberal - arts colleges employed the largest proportion of full - timers on contract — 28.6 per cent, while public comprehensive institutions employed the smallest proportion — 14.8.

I was valedictorian of a large public high school in Florida, attended a top liberal arts college — Swarthmore — and majored in physics.

«It is challenging to lose weight, but if women commit to losing 10 percent of their body weight and sustain that over time, it can have a large impact on overall risk factors associated with heart disease and diabetes,» said Cynthia A. Thomson, Ph.D., R.D., co-author and Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Director of the University of Arizona Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention & Health Promotion in Tucson.

Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000 - square - foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK - 12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world - class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida's largest public library.

Ponze was assistant principal at a large, «dysfunctional» middle school in the city when she saw an ad for principal of a new all - girls public college - prep school and applied.

Many colleges, especially larger public institutions, do not have adequate advisement.

An amendment to the No Child Left Behind Act authorizing the creation of single - sex public schools was sponsored by Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, but the measure passed in large part due to the support of Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, a Wellesley College graduate grateful for her opportunity to attend one of the country's premier women's colleges.

«The most significant aspect of this award is that it highlights the significance of undergraduate public service at Harvard College to the larger body of Harvard alumni,» Duehay says.

Most of that growth has been at large public institutions, with for - profit colleges accounting for about one - third of online students nationwide.

Massachusetts ranks 41st in the nation, with number 1 representing the state with the largest public four - year colleges.

So it's disappointing that Weingarten did not use this opportunity to call for retirement security for all public school teachers, our largest group of college - educated, middle - class workers.

[ii] The question facing policymakers and the public is not whether eliminating tuition at public colleges for most families will have a positive effect, but whether it is the best use of a large new federal investment in higher education.

[viii] The increases would be very large — equivalent to 38 percent of current spending at community colleges and 56 percent at four - year public colleges.

While the public discussion around college usually focuses on the price paid by students, recent work by economists David Deming and Chris Walters suggests that declines in the amount colleges and universities spend may have a larger impact on student outcomes.

Classroom instruction for large groups of students (25 or more) across community colleges, state universities, and elite institutions differs little from what occurs in secondary public schools.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

But the available research suggests that if state lawmakers increased appropriations for public colleges and universities, it would be unlikely to have an effect as large as advocates assume.

Of course this analysis does not include the large number of low - income students at two - year colleges, the vast majority of which are public.

Mark A. Smylie, a doctoral student at the university's George Peabody College for Teachers and a research assistant at its Institute for Public Policy Studies, analyzed enrollment data from 1968 to 1980 from 49 of the country's largest school districts...

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Katie has been teaching English to ninth graders at a large public high school since her graduation from college six years ago.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the wholcollege, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the wholcollege students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the wholCollege Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

A 10 - member review board of national education experts, including former U. S. Secretary of Education John King, reviewed publicly available student performance and college - readiness data for 39 of the countrys largest public CMOs and found that DSST, Harmony and Success had the best overall academic performance, college readiness and progress closing achievement gaps.

As superintendent of the sixth largest school district in the nation and second largest in Florida, with nearly 270,000 students in 238 schools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow's world.

So what's wrong with the idea of making the four - year college - prep curriculum the default curriculum for all students, as some states have done, or making completion of the curriculum required for admission to a state's four - year public university system a condition of high school graduation, as several large districts in California have done?

Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, the largest charter network in LA Unified is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and based on performance, there is much to celebrate.

For example, a study of New York City's experiment to break up large high public schools into small ones found that the students were enrolling and staying in college longer.

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.

Two models illustrating the incorporation of GIS into teacher education are described; one from a large, public university, the other from a small, private, four - year college.

While public education spending is at historic levels and is already the largest portion of our state budget — about 55 percent overall (K - 12, community colleges, and IHL) and around 40 percent for K - 12 alone — legislative leaders have begun preparing to «fully fund» the Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula should Initiative 42 pass.