Sentences with phrase «of black college students»

In California, according to the California Competes, only 47 percent of Latino students and only 38 percent of Black college students completed their college degrees.

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Black also hosted a series of informal «town hall» gatherings on college campuses, inviting college students and local high school kids to talk about how they see their futures.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

No degree of double - standard setting can make black students competitive or comfortable in academically exclusive colleges and universities.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

Oberlin College, named after minister Jean - Frederic Oberlin, was the first college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. College, named after minister Jean - Frederic Oberlin, was the first college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. college in the United States to admit students of all races and in 1844 graduated the first black student, George B. Vashon.

Favoritistic, kid - gloves treatment for black students and college athletes creates animosity in the ranks and harms individuals through the distorting image of a special - treatment style of existence.

«The Concerned Asian, Black, Latin @, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently - Abled students at Dartmouth College» storm President Phil Hanlon's office with a list of seventy counts of «racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,» of which, they claim, the college is College» storm President Phil Hanlon's office with a list of seventy counts of «racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,» of which, they claim, the college is college is guilty.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

At the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college students.

In addition to training students and having awarded an average of three black belts every year over the past 30 years, the Krupas are perhaps the most fulfilled by the impact they've had on their students: «To watch a young person who grew up here go off to college and now make their way in the world is so rewarding,» said Joyce.

Three black female college students say they were physically assaulted Saturday by a group of white men and women during a racially motivated attack aboard a city bus in Albany.

«The College Corps helps place students in jobs that are enhancing their education as well as keeping them in the Mohawk Valley... we take pride in this area and what it has to offer as we continue to recruit new employees,» said Lisa Kimmel of Black River Systems, one of the many high tech employers in the program.

Namely: The standards we have been using for years prepare only 37 % of state graduates for college, including only 21 % in New York City and only 13 % of black and 15 % of Hispanic students.

Canisius College in Buffalo has suspended students involved in an incident of a black baby doll found on campus earlier this week.

University of Vermont students and Black Lives Matter activists are demanding top administrators resign over the college's failure to meet student demands for diversity initiatives, including the installation of BLM flags on campus.

As a result, selective colleges and universities would have to admit six times as many students under an income - based policy to yield the same number of black and Hispanic youth as would result from an explicitly race - based policy.

Claude M. Steele's article, Thin Ice: «Stereotype Threat» and Black College Students, describes the phenomenon of «stereotype threat» and attributes the «stereotype threat» phenomenon to the perceived underachievement of African - American college stCollege Students, describes the phenomenon of «stereotype threat» and attributes the «stereotype threat» phenomenon to the perceived underachievement of African - American college sStudents, describes the phenomenon of «stereotype threat» and attributes the «stereotype threat» phenomenon to the perceived underachievement of African - American college stcollege studentsstudents.

«A year at Brown costs $ 34,000, and in addition there are very few students of color in computer science,» says James Wyche, associate provost at Brown University and head of a national project that partners the Ivy League schools and other elite universities with so - called historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

Some of the money will be used to grow a scholarship program for students training in cybersecurity and to support the nation's historically black colleges.

Korey Smith, a student at North Carolina's Johnson C. Smith University (one of the nation's 104 historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs), said that presenting his research on working memory and neural activity in rhesus macaques was just one reason to attend ERN.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

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.

I» am a young black college student pursuing the career of Information Technology.

Most of the users on Free Black Dating are young adults and college students.

(In French with subtitles) Spinning into Butter (R for profanity) Hate crime saga, set on the verdant campus of a college in Vermony, finds the school's dean (Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamining her feelings about prejudice when racial epithets threatening lynching are plastered to the dorm room door of a black student (Paul James).

The Great Debaters (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, brief sexuality, and the depiction of violence and disturbing images) Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Kimberly Elise in this fact - based drama, set in 1935, about a professor at a small black college who inspired students to form the school's first debate team and to challenge Harvard for the national championship.

That film — which nabbed Simien an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay — weaved together satire and social commentary in its tale of four interconnected black students on a journey of self - discovery at an Ivy League college.

«Black» parallels the outline of «Grey» - here, the millionaire, Christian, tries to coax the college student, Hannah (the appealing Kali Hawk), into signing a contract for kinky sex - but only as much as it permits Wayans to riff on pop ephemera.

As a college student, he and fellow hacker Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) had arranged for electronic «donations» of funds from bodies like the Republican Party to organizations like the Black Panthers.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

While this rate is four times the 8 percent average college completion rate of low - income black and Hispanic students and slightly higher than the figure (31 %) for all U.S. students, it is still considerably below KIPP's goal of seeing 75 percent of their graduates earn a four - year college degree — comparable to the rate at which top - income quartile students graduate.

• Debt and default among black or African - American college students is at crisis levels, and even a bachelor's degree is no guarantee of security: black BA graduates default at five times the rate of white BA graduates (21 versus 4 percent), and are more likely to default than white dropouts.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Teachers expect 58 percent of white high school students, but just 37 percent of black high school students, to obtain at least a four - year college degree.

97, ED.D.» 09, mentions recruitment trips to historically black colleges and universities, a «community - to - teacher» program that offers college graduates with a four - year degree a pathway to becoming teachers, getting successful high school students to consider careers in the classroom, and hiring teachers beginning in March instead of the summer like many other districts.

During the trial, Professor Walter Haney of Boston College presented statistics showing that, following the imposition of the test, the already high dropout rates for black and Hispanic students in the state shot up and has remained high, threatening the economic future of those students.

Study 1 involved black and white college students who took a difficult test using items from the verbal GRE under one of two conditions.

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 second episode of Walking the Talk, we explore obstacles on the road to college, and other issues affecting student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President Barackcollege, and other issues affecting student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President BarackCollege and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.

The 1980's are «developing into a period of stable or declining numbers and proportions of black students in colleges and universities,» said Joseph L. Marks, a research associate at sreb and author of the report, «The Enrollment of Black Students in Higher Education: Can Declines Be Prevented?&rblack students in colleges and universities,» said Joseph L. Marks, a research associate at sreb and author of the report, «The Enrollment of Black Students in Higher Education: Can Declines Be Preventedstudents in colleges and universities,» said Joseph L. Marks, a research associate at sreb and author of the report, «The Enrollment of Black Students in Higher Education: Can Declines Be Prevented?&rBlack Students in Higher Education: Can Declines Be PreventedStudents in Higher Education: Can Declines Be Prevented?»

Instead, eliminating affirmative action has decreased the ability of black students to attend public colleges across the board, with a pronounced effect in less selective institutions.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

My research shows that on average, 50 percent of the lower - income black students at elite colleges graduated from private high schools, which is remarkable.

And then, you have a college where black and Latino students are pretty severely underrepresented, and that's telling students that, well, most of the best of the best are white and Asian, not black and Latino.

Second, our estimates of teacher biases suggests that all teachers are overly optimistic about whether their students will complete college, but that white teachers are less optimistic about black students than are black teachers.