Sentences with phrase «many of the students»

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

In one of these studies, a group of students was instructed to think about an important final exam while another group was told to make a specific study plan with details of what they would do, where, and when.

On the student loan front, the CFPB sued Navient, the nation's largest servicer of student loans, in January for complicating the repayment process for borrowers.

Credit - card debt on top of student loans could send someone into debt for decades.

The Sudbury, Ont., university boasts an MBA student body that's 60 % women, putting it among just a handful of Canadian business schools where a majority of students are female.

The young salesman (he could have been one of my students) confidently explained that I «really should» buy the extended warranty, for «just $ 49.»

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

Not only do we focus on our own development, but we are thinking ahead to the fall when we have a new batch of students.

Jane showed the third of the three big blocks I see among the hundreds of students and clients who wished they could create projects to dive into like their heroes but found themselves inhibited instead.

At Harvey Mudd College, the Claremont, California - based institution where Klawe became president in 2006, a full half of students who graduate with degrees in computer science, engineering, and physics are women.

Instead of sharing her photography skills with any kind of student, Gregory and Flanagan steered another client toward a niche market she had a passion for - new or expectant parents who wanted to take brilliant photos of their children.

In 1996, says Klawe, female students made up 20 percent of the student body.

Klawe started with the hypothesis that if Harvey Mudd created an environment that was supportive and engaging for everyone; if the school built confidence and community among underrepresented groups; and if it demystified the path to success, a diverse group of students would be attracted to the college and succeed there.

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

Until 1971, the share of students who could be female was capped at 11 percent.

Filing and coffee runs won't attract the caliber of students you want to spend the summer months with.

The professor has no context of the student other than his or her asking for a favor.

When Stanford researchers recently peered into the brains of students to see how attitude affects achievement, they found something startling.

He's been able to pay off roughly half of his student - loan debt so far; like Stork and Sullivan, he's not out of the woods yet.

A business professor reveals the countless hours required to stage an online course for thousands of students from around the globe.

Even so, parents and students alike are optimistic: 64 percent of parents surveyed expect that their children will be able to find a job after graduation — though not necessarily one in their field — within six months, and 67 percent of students agreed.

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

Jamie Byron, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Grove, says the personal fulfillment from starting his own company after graduating from MIT in 2013 has been worth any amount of student - loan debt.

A group of students at Villanova University have found that hops, which are critical to the beer - making process, could grow well in Martian soil.

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

The cash will help D2L rebuild its platform as a data and analytics powerhouse, and take advantage of its biggest secret weapon: 15 years of student data.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

If Laing knows what kind of student would be successful working with a particular company it makes it easier for him to suggest qualified candidates.

Hispanic students make up about 20 percent of the student body, up from five percent.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

Researchers at the University of Arizona monitored a group of students and tracked their «loneliness levels» while posting Facebook status updates.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

Earlier this week, my 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College participated in a focus group that led one of my students to remark that she had always thought they were a waste of time until she saw one in action.

In addition, iOS has lagged behind Chrome and Windows in providing administrators with tools to easily set permissions and install software for hundreds and thousands of students.

Some startling news about the cost of education: The average college graduate in the Class of 2011 will graduate with a whopping $ 22,900 of student debt.

Tales of students striking it rich by becoming data scientists would probably result in a world of change.

The power of the launch and the set - up of the course created a powerful culture within the new group of students.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

Notably, many of her students are millennials who have worked for a few years and are back in school before returning to the workforce, Weiss explains.

CBS Evening News published cellphone - video footage of students huddled under their desks as shots could be heard in the background.

I am hardly an expert on this topic but many of my students used a program called Survey Monkey to distribute the survey.

To be nice, some of the students said that they might be willing to try it for free and even buy it if it worked better.

A new standalone Schulichcampus in Hyderabad, India, will acceptits first batch of students next fall.

Since 1938, researchers at Harvard University have been studying the choices and experiences of a group of 400 men, all of them students at Harvard.

Eight of the students have been released from the hospital.

She said networks formed because of students» lack of trust in Yale to protect them from assailants.