Sentences with phrase «male students in the college»

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Indeed, studies suggest that both male and female faculty and students at gender - mixed universities can often be unconsciously biased against women in STEM classes; yet, those biases aren't as much a concern at women's colleges.1

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

Division of males and females may be appropriate at a monastery, but not in a residence for college students.

In order to demonstrate «equality» with male students and so as not to seem prudish, college females drink more than they otherwise would.

In a city troubled by allegations of police misuse of force, a Chicago police officer shot and killed a male college student...

«Brief exposure to charismatic career women inspires female students to pursue same field: Easy, inexpensive experiment briefly sent inspiring role models into intro to econ classes and sharply increased college female interest in the male - dominated, well - paying field of economics.»

African - American men, both students and professors, filled my science classes at all - male, historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

In a 2008 survey of college students, 90 percent of males and 60 percent of females had been there, done that.

That was the bottom line of a new UT Dallas study that analyzed surveys of 19,000 male and female student - athletes at more than 1,100 colleges and universities in all three NCAA divisions to determine how various factors impacted their academic performance.

«Male and female students do, in fact, experience college differently from one another,» Daigle said.

Using historical data from horizontal wells in the Barnett Shale formation in North Texas, Tad Patzek, professor and chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering; Michael Marder, professor of physics in the College of Natural Sciences; and Frank Male, a graduate student in physics, used a simple physics theory to model the rate at which production from the wells declines over time, known as the «decline curve.»

«Based on previous work, we knew that during the summer the sand tiger population formed groups in the Delaware Bay, with male and female adults and juveniles all together in the same places, sometimes very close together,» said Danielle Haulsee, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment's School of Marine Science and Policy.

Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new study by a Michigan State University education scholar.

Chezare Warren interviewed 18 former students of Nabur High School, an all - male, college - prep in Chicago that rose to national prominence for helping all students in its inaugural graduating class earn admission to college (including the study participants).

The researchers studied 350 heterosexual college students — almost evenly split between males and females — who participated in one of 15 speed - dating events in 2005 or 2007.

Seventeen age -, IQ -, and parental socioeconomic status - matched typically developing adult males who served as controls in Experiment 1 were college students, graduate school students, hospital staff and their acquaintances (30.4 ± 5.6 years old; Table 1)(Hollingshead, 1957).

Schoenfeld, who was affiliated with Cuny - Lehman College in New York, experimented with 20 male students, all of which were doing weight training for several years and had good experience with weightlifting.

Assessing the effect of gender, LeSuer et al. (1997) found that a heavier 1RM load could be lifted by males compared to females (180 ± 40 vs. 73.3 ± 16.2 lb) in 67 untrained college students.

McCall et al. (1996) reported that the muscle cross-sectional area of the triceps was 24.75 cm2 in 12 male college students.

Mayhew et al. (2011) reported a very high correlation coefficient (ICC = 0.947) using a curvilinear equation in untrained male and female college students.

The assistant professor of Wooster College in Ohio Laura Sirot together with the graduate student Paul Joseph decided to research consequences of so called «Coolidge Effect», the known fact of decrease in the quality of sperm in male mammals...

Raoul O'Connell writes, stars in and directs this 30 - minute short film about a gay student who looks forward to the freedom of going to college New York, only to fall for his male roommate instead.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Another study, by Carol Dweck and colleagues, found that female college students had a lower sense of belonging in mathematics if they perceived that their college environment encouraged gender stereotypes about mathematics (for example, females are not as good at calculus as males) and the idea that mathematics ability is fixed (Good, Rattan & Dweck, 2012).

As a black Harvard College male student, born in New York City and predominately raised in a small town in the South, I grew up in a lower, middle class home.

A Madrasa Reform Project (MRP) has been launched and an amount of Rs. 225 million has been allocated in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSPD) 2002 - 2003 for this purpose.i With the aim of establishing and strengthening lines of communication between madrasas and the state, it was to educate 1.5 million students, both male and female, and will enable them to continue their studies in colleges and universities (Sareen, 2005).

He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland — College Park, where his dissertation research investigated how black male administrators navigate racism in higher education.

In the minute - long video, which can be viewed here, Monroe College male students explain how the...

«Monroe College is a national leader in educating urban and international students, and through this transformative program, we have shown that we can change the trajectory of at - risk students» lives and make a meaningful impact on their futures,» said Dr. Cecil Wright, dean of admissions and founder of Male Empowerment at Monroe College.

The College Board grants State AP Scholar to the one male and one female student in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia with scores of 3 or higher on the greatest number of AP Exams, and then the highest average score (at least 3.5) on all AP Exams taken.

North Carolina researchers analyzing another large data set found similar results in 2007.27 More recently, in a study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers and university economists found that low - income black male students in North Carolina who have just one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.

To download a free copy of Men of Color: Ensuring the Academic Success of Latino Males in Higher Education or to learn more about IHEP and its other programmatic efforts helping to increase college access and success for underserved student populations, visit the organization's Web site at www.ihep.org.

University of Pennsylvania professor and researcher Shaun Harper updated his «Black Male Student Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports» — the inaugural release occurred in 2012.

In this article, Nancy Hoffman and Michael Webb explore how early college can benefit students from at - risk backgrounds, particularly black and Latino males.

But the fact that only 10.4 % of the male CPC students attended college — compared with 6.6 % of males in the control group and 16.2 % of the girls who enrolled in a Child - Parent Center — offers a pointed reminder that, while this program has been a success, it is no panacea.

In a state - supported effort, the College collaborates with Florida's six historically black colleges and universities to provide 150 at - risk minority students, particularly young black males, with role - model mentors and other services.

We share how any mentoring program can leverage the popularity, experiential learning and bonding power of the game to recruit more male mentors and to teach students about leadership, college and career pathways in a hands - on, fun way.

In late April, three African American male college students received the Eddie Phillips Scholarship Award.

Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education, critical English Education with Black and Latino male high school students, culturally responsive pedagogy, and the narratives of African American college reentry women.

Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education (with a specific focus on the education of Black and Latino males), literacy practices of Black girls, and Black female college reentry students.

We find that enrollment in this academy increases the likelihood of high school graduation and college enrollment each by about 8 percentage points, with the attainment gains concentrated among male students.

I soon identified an unsettling pattern: In a school where 85 % of students were white males, most students of color were advised to apply to two - year colleges.

In 2007 - 2008, 40 % of participating students were male, over 90 % were students of color, and college credit courses had an average successful completion rate (C or better) of 85 %.

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(From a recent study: «Having at least one Black teacher in the third through fifth grade significantly reduces the likelihood that Black male students will drop out of high school and increases the likelihood that both Black male and female students will aspire to attend a four - year college.»)

Having at least one Black teacher in the third through fifth grade significantly reduces the likelihood that Black male students will drop out of high school and increases the likelihood that both Black male and female students will aspire to attend a four - year college.»)

Female graduates are now somewhat more likely than male graduates to have borrowed money to finance their college education, and women in the class of 2012 owe more of the total student debt than their counterparts in the class of 1993.

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Reinforcing what we are seeing in our survey, recent data from Pew Research and others have shown that young women are outpacing their male counterparts in completing college degree programs, leading to more who are dealing with student loan debt and a delayed start in the workplace,» said acting NFCC president and CEO Jeff Faulkner.

The Todd & Weld attorneys also persuaded a federal court judge in Massachusetts to deny Amherst College's request to dismiss a lawsuit they filed on behalf of their client, a male undergraduate student who claims he was expelled as the result of a biased investigation and hearing concerning a female student's accusations of sexual misconduct.