Sentences with phrase «minority at community colleges»

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Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at someCollege found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at somecollege at some point.

The Bridges Program at Chicago State University (CSU), the Chicago Linkage for Minorities in Biomedical Sciences (CLIMB), allows students from three Chicago - area community colleges to pursue baccalaureate degrees at CSU.

«There is a huge pool of talent to tap at the community colleges,» concludes Shiva Singh, program director for NIH's Bridges to the Future, an initiative aimed at increasing minority participation in bioscience.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New JerseAt the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jerseat one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

Giving back to your community is very important, but if mentoring is indeed a motivating factor for you, then, as a graduate of both an HBCU (Spelman College) and a PWI (Georgia Tech), I would argue that the minority students at PWIs need your help even more than those at HBCUs.

During his graduate years, Dr. Vigerust was an Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Student Award recipient, FASEB minority peer mentor, adjunct faculty in microbiology at a local community college; and, his work was recognized by AAI and ASCB.

To fund sessions of an academic - enrichment program that serves minority and disadvantaged middle school students: $ 225,700 to Aetna's «Saturday Academy» programs at seven sites — Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.; St. Joseph College, Hartford, Conn.; Middlesex Community Technical College, Middletown, Conn.; the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and the University...

Obama's fiscal 2013 budget plan calls for maintaining the maximum Pell Grants award, increasing the Perkins Loan Program, providing needed support for community colleges to meet the needs of local and regional job markets, and boosting teacher education programs at institutions that serve minorities.

The research focuses particularly on access and student success at community college, with a particular focus on the experiences low income and minority students.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.