Sentences with phrase «now as a college student»

Even now as a college student, she has been coming back to Benjamin Franklin High each week to organize students and community members.

You will not have to settle for something that will not offer you the price that you need right now as a college student.

With all of the off campus housing choices to choose from, you will be able to find the off campus housing choice near Johnson County Community College that is perfect for your needs right now as a college student.

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It is beginning with primary education — which is now beginning to stress tools that encourage self - sufficiency and entrepreneurship as early as elementary school — and extending to college, which is tiptoeing into the world of preparing students for the eventualities of self - employment.

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

«Having known Mike since he was a college student at Pepperdine University, back in 1997, I can tell you that he was as motivated to succeed then as he is now, 16 years later.

As I am now in the educational space helping college students figure out their career paths, I would love to see less debt and more colleges give need - based scholarships.

He is now in his senior year of college as a Music Technologies student but has more experience than many of his post-graduate counterparts.

The bill now provides that a college may «enforce religious practices» as long as it applies them to all students, gay and straight.

Dollars now follow students as scholarship and tuition support rather than support university ministries and church colleges.

These students bristle at structure and deadlines (such things are for lesser students); regular attendance (they have more pressing obligations); and real, rather than inflated, grades (they received straight As in college, so why should they be getting Es now?).

But while 63 percent of full - time faculty at four - year universities and colleges nationwide identify as «far left» or «liberal» and only 12 percent identify as «far right» or «conservative,» Liberty University bucks the trend in attracting primarily conservative students and faculty — no surprise, having been founded by the late Jerry Falwell, Sr., of the (now defunct) Moral Majority.

Jonas Jørgensen is a theologian from Denmark who studied at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India as an Ecumenical Student, and now works for the International Association for Mission Studies.

Although iTunes U originally started as a tool for college - aged students, there are now a number of programs for younger students.

I'd been to Sea World San Antonio once before as a college student with my boyfriend (now husband) and it was a great time.

Now that parents shelter their children every step of the way, we have «failure deprived» college students (as administrators at Stanford and Harvard call them) and entitled, anxious 20 - somethings who can't function in a world that's sometimes cold or cruel or indifferent.

* What happens to some students with the grades to now get into a SUNY college as they face stiffer competition for admission even to so - called «safety schools» by students who now might choose to go to a private college?

I myself am the child of undocumented parents and was born here and was able to get TAP and other assistance when I went to college and majored in PR and Latino students and now I work as an immigrantion counselor fighting for the dreamers.

As the College Board notes, there is now a record amount of financial aid available for struggling students and families.

She now serves as Guthman director of the Quantitative Analysis Institute at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, which promotes statistics programming on campus and provides statistics consulting for researchers and students at Wellesley.

The clearinghouse now houses more than 500 reports that summarize current findings on such topics as math instruction for young children, elementary school writing and helping students with the college application process.

William Wootters, one of Wheeler's many students and now a professor of physics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sees Wheeler as an almost oracular figure.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

These two programs have profound impacts on students who may otherwise have never set foot in a lab or thought of themselves as scientists, but who are now beginning to go to college and study science themselves.

I am following hiit for 30 mins thrice a week plus gym and a proper diet, now I am starting itermittent fasting (8.30pm - 12.30 pm is fasting and rest eating), and currently i go to gym in morning at 7 and hiit at 5 pm and as i am a student so i have college from 10 am to 4 pm, so my query is that should i do hiit in morning for it to be more effective because as you advised in a youtube video to do hiit during fasted state or should i keep continuing my current schedule?

I have two Master Degrees, but as I like to study, I am now a college student again, this time, taking Music.

He ruined the good moments but now when I watch him, I relate to him so much, especially as a college student.

From dining as an out - of - towner, a college student and now a resident Hyde Parker, I think I've tried at least half of the menu items.

Hi my name is Roger Iam 19 I am a student at MCC now known as State College of Florida.

I certainly don't think my own career as a high - school teacher, a student at a fine college, now a film reviewer could attract the kind of crowd that Donald Trump seems to dig up.

Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) is no longer a K.G.B. operative, but his wife Elizabeth (Keri Russell) is as deeply involved in undercover work as ever, and is now also mentoring their college - student daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) as a K.G.B. spy.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

«We view Officer Singh as a Castlemont staff member partly because of his efforts to really build relationships with folks here,» said Navarro, who happily shares the success stories of students who once had failing grades but are now A students talking about college.

Continuing Research Now, Louie is studying the college paths of Dominican - and Colombian - American students — two groups often stereotyped as «underachieving» — and comparing their experiences to those of Chinese - American students.

Out in the redesign will be SAT words that have long prompted anxious students to cram with flashcards, as the test will now focus on vocabulary words that are widely used in college and career.

Before entering high school, most Urban Prep students didn't know anybody who went to college, and now they see their mainly black, male teachers and staff as college graduate role models who reflect their image.

Under the bill, now before the full House, students in selected junior high and high schools across the state would be able to design a more flexible schedule, pursue internships, and enroll in college courses, but still attend school 180 days a year as required by state law.

The entire Common Core edifice — and the assessments, cut scores, and accountability arrangements built atop it — presupposes that «college - ready» has the same definition that it has long enjoyed: students prepared to succeed, upon arrival at the ivied gates, in credit - bearing college courses that they go right into without needing first to subject themselves to «remediation» (now sometimes euphemized as «developmental education»).

Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students, though depression, too, is on the rise.

Open Study College now work with accredited qualifications such as A Levels, AAT, CACHE and ICB, to deliver high quality, flexible learning with mobile ready courses, meaning that students can now learn on the go.

Initially a resource for undocumented students from across the state who did not have access to in - state tuition or financial assistance, now the program has grown to a full mentorship program for North Carolina Latinx high school students and their families as they prepare to enter college.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

Newer data from the National Center for Education Statistics now tracks individual students as they graduate from college and enter various sectors of the workforce (known as the Baccalaureate and Beyond surveys).

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After delivering over 50 local and national presentations on this work, our team of student investigators is now embarking on the second phase of research, an undertaking that has us surveying and interviewing hundreds of Kentucky high school seniors and undergraduates to define college readiness from a student perspective, with a special focus on how the ACT fares as a predictor of college success.

The community college presidents also say high school students, school districts and colleges will save money by substituting the tests, known as PARCC, for the Accuplacer, which now determines knowledge in math, reading and writing in preparation for college - level courses.

Diplomas Now is an innovative model that targets attendance as it helps the toughest middle and high schools in America's largest cities prepare students to graduate from high school ready for college or career.

The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.

Someone should remind our loquacious governor that he was instrumental in passing legislation that's eerily similar — i.e., inasmuch as CT students can't meet NCLB's Adequate Yearly Progress standards, CT will now raise those performance standards by embracing the Common Core, increasing graduation requirements, and eliminating developmental education for entering college freshmen who need extra help.