Sentences with phrase «money than our university»

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According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

And how much more money does an MBA from Harvard, Stanford, or Wharton get you over a career than one from Texas A&M, Ohio State, or the University of Iowa?

Rather than earn revenue from subscriptions, the company would now try to make money by selling sales leads — data about readers who had agreed to share their information — to companies and universities.

According to a 2014 study by the Kauffman Foundation and Hebrew University, it turns out that when a female entrepreneur tries to raise money on Kickstarter, she is 7 percentage points more likely to be funded than a man.

More than anything else, what transformed the small colleges of the 1870s into the research universities of the 1920s and then into the multi-universities of the late twentieth century was money from industry and government for technical research and development.

In his will, Garcia left his entire estate — more than $ 85,000, a lot of money in 1948 — to the university for the construction of a dormitory for needy Hispanic youth.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said the university has spoken with the company that has authenticated more than 950 items with Jameis Winston's signature and is confident Winston did not receive money in exchange for autographing memorabilia.

«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Dawn Comstock, a leading concussion researcher, professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health, and member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, told SI.

Although, certain «elite» universities seem to strongly favour overseas students (mostly American), especially on postgraduate courses, no doubt because they are far more lucrative than home - based students (highly ironic, considering the recent funding outcry - more money from the taxpayer for the best tutors to tutor the wealthier overseas students).

However a more positive assessment was offered by Michael Parkinson, Professor of Urban Affairs at John Moores University: although he had been sceptical in the 1980s, by 1997 he had come to feel that ministers assigned to regions, the development of housing associations and cooperatives, and the channelling of government money through business - led agencies rather than through local government.

Mr. Johnson, the city's first openly gay male speaker, succeeded in the rough - and - tumble world of New York City politics despite completing less than a month of college, at George Washington University, and arriving in the city at the age of 19 without pedigree or money.

The policy in brief is giving students financial support upfront so that they can pay for their living costs while at university rather than giving them money to pay back a loan they can pay back over a number of years.

«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.

«A university degree gives you access to all sorts of things for the future and if you want to earn money, the chances of earning a lot more money than you would do if you didn't have a degree.»

A Quinnipiac University poll last month showed that 75 percent of Democrats in the state said they were inclined to re-elect him, and he has more than $ 30 million in campaign money.

American drivers are wasting more time and money in traffic jams than ever before, reports David Schrank of Texas A&M University, and commuters are adjusting to longer travel times rather than phasing in long - term solutions.

The university has a better credit rating than the state, which means it can borrow money at a lower interest rate.

A 3 - year - old graduate research university in Saudi Arabia is finding that it will take more than money to create a global research powerhouse.

And they point out that channeling money into universities, rather than the better equipped Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), could be a mistake.

The Netherlands, a country of similar population and wealth, pumps about 70 per cent more money than Australia into university research.

Paul Moller, a former engineering professor at the University of California at Davis, has spent all of his money and more than 40 years trying to build a flying car.

«It is more probable to handle money and then food than to touch a subway pole or a commonly used doorknob and then food,» notes Manolis Angelakis, an infectious diseases researcher at Aix — Marseille University, who has studied dirty money.

Based on public data about national spending from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, «the true quantity of money that has been invested... in R&D is even less than what appears in the budget bills,» says COSCE President Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

Researchers at Cornell University found that gifting an experience (like yoga classes) makes people happier than spending money on things (like yoga pants).

Show Some Leg Believe it or not, women in skirt suits were thought to earn more money and be more confident than those in pantsuits in a study conducted at the UK's University of Hertfordshire.

The school receives 47,000 euros a year in positive discrimination money to hire aides and special education teachers, who are paid slightly higher salaries than classroom teachers because of their required sixth year of university training and the demands of their jobs.

STANFORD — Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that show no learning gains in math for American 4th graders, the nation's public schools will likely have more money and a larger and better paid labor force than they had in 2009, according to education researchers James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng of Vanderbilt University.

In a brilliant — and soon - to - be published — article in the American Political Science Review, University of Chicago political scientists William Howell and Christopher Berry show conclusively that presidents hand out money to states loyal to their party more often than otherwise, all other things being equal.

Norcross told a Rider University audience of about 100 that some private schools educate students successfully for less money than failing public schools.

I also disagree that CT has all the expertise it needs in its teaching force because if that was the case CT has figured out the secret formula, then what you are saying is that our for - profit universities (yes even state universities are for - profit) care more about producing highly - effective teachers than their bottom line, and those teachers have so much knowledge and expertise that the only thing they need is for administration to give more money to education.

«If the kid is less than seven years away from university, the money has to be in something rock solid,» says Alison Griffiths, former host of the W Network's Dollars and Sense.

We're far less rational than we think when it comes to money, according to Richard Thaler at the University of Chicago, Daniel Kahneman at Princeton University and many other researchers in the field of behavioral finance.

A Rice University study found that when people think of saving money as a repetitive action rather than a task to reach a goal, they sock away 78 % more overall.

Skip the cookie aisle Shoppers spent almost twice as much of their discretionary spending money when they mindlessly went down every aisle of a grocery store, rather than only visiting the aisles with the food they needed, according to a study from the University of Pittsburgh and Baylor University.

Since there are less than 10 years to go before Jennifer's girls go off to university, our experts suggested the money should be invested conservatively and at the lowest possible cost.

Partners who fight about money weekly are 30 % more likely to end up divorced than those who disagree over money only a few times a month, according to Utah State University researchers.

College students are using and abusing credit cards more than ever, reports an updated study by the University of Arizona and National Endowment for Financial Education, with students surveyed in 2011 expressing more disinterest in money and credit management than they did in a 2009 survey.

«Guiding a student to attend a college they can afford and be responsible when it comes to borrowing money is a valuable life lesson for the student — perhaps even more valuable than attending a prestigious, expensive university.»

The greatest single revelation I received from taking Ramsey's Financial Peace University was that money was primarily an emotional issue, rather than a mathematical one.

As just one example, if you're a single parent, have three children and earn $ 60,000 a year (in this case more than the $ 50,000 average), the new OSAP calculator will reveal that you are eligible for more than $ 16,000 of non-repayable aid, making the average university tuition in a year free with money left over for books and fees.

After graduating university in 2013 and being able to save up more money than ever before, I made international travel one of the biggest priorities in my life.

Participants generally assumed that scientists who worked for government or universities were not driven by money, so probably had more worthy intentions and were more trustworthy than those working for private companies.»

For the University to come to any other conclusion than that he acted appropriately would be an admission that the University has been fleecing those who gave the money.

(You may never see a more perfect example of hypocrisy than the climate - change movement's ironclad belief that their vast funding is one hundred percent pure and noble — even when, as Curry notes, it comes from those eeeeeevil fossil fuel companies, who donate enormous sums of money to universities and environmental groups.)

But the LSUC's decision not to accredit TWU's law school has less of an impact on religious rights than it does on the university's ability to make money, the judges ruled.

Travel insurance premiums for an older traveler spending a lot of money on a open - water diving trip, for example, would be higher than the travel insurance premium for a young student going abroad to study at university.

A recent study performed by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School showed that people who spend money to save time are happier than those who don't, or who spend money on material items.

reddeeradvocate.com - Red Deer Advocate Edmonton university recovers bulk of money lost in phishing attack Red Deer Advocate EDMONTON — An Alberta university that was defrauded of $ 11.8 million in a so - called phishing attack says it has recovered more than 90 per cent of the funds.

According to studies performed by the University of Minnesota, children may be more effected by money than we think, even though they may not fully comprehend what money is.