Sentences with phrase «of alumni said»
When asked about their performance after high school, 91 percent of alumni said their academic performance was good or excellent.
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«Edmark had all the ingredients for a brand: it was making some of the best children's software on the market,» says McNeely, the former chairman of a top Seattle ad agency and an alumnus of giant Ogilvy & Mather.
He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.
University - run entrepreneurship centers can help you find like - minded people with whom you can discuss your visions, as well as business advisers and alumni who can offer guidance to make them a reality, says Starr Marcello, director and chief operating officer of the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The U.S. is falling behind when it comes to competing in the global economy, say two - thirds of Harvard Business School alumni.
Nooyi, who is also No. 2 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list, has donated more to the school than any other alumni in terms of lifetime giving, the school said.
Wharton said that the new MBA program is the result of interviews with «thousands of Wharton's stakeholders,» including students, alumni, business leaders, recruiters, faculty, and staff.
«It was really only in the last year to 18 months that it was clear that all the pieces came together and we could actually finish what we couldn't before,» says Walker, who will lead Upside along with several other Priceline (pcln) alumni, including former CTO Scott Case and Tim Brier, the former president of Priceline Europe.
Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.
According to a survey of alumni released by Bernstein in January, 54 % rated senior management as fair or poor, and 70 % said that at least 20 % of their friends were actively trying to leave P&G.
«In Austin, a city where people enjoy their libations, the mayor has resisted [Uber] more than almost any other city,» said Bill Gurley, an Uber investor and University of Texas alumnus, during a keynote interview.
One ex-employee (read: Xoogler) says that the alumni support is one of the best perks of the job.
The announcement from Wake Forest cites a survey from the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) in which 95 percent of 2013 alumni from flexible MBA programs said their programs prepared them for leadership positions within their companies.
«With more than 20,000 Haskayne graduates making a difference in 80 countries around the globe, Helen is one of a very select group of distinguished alumni who have received the MAX Award,» says Haskayne Interim Dean Jim Dewald.
«We're serious, and we are the future,» said Giovanna Yeun, a 20 - year - old alumnus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
But one broker source said that a chunk of Cushman's large operation of midmarket brokers, many of them Massey Knakal alumni, may be tempted to move on in the next two years as the firm grows its big - ticket capital markets business.
«We're excited to see RBC support startup ecosystem players like OneEleven,» says Albert Lai, co-founder and CEO of OneEleven alumni company Big Viking Games.
«For those of you feeling alienated, it gets better,» says OneWheaton's founding statement, signed by about 700 GLBT and straight, alumni, echoing Dan Savage's national «It Gets Better» campaign for gay youth.
To come out at the college, OneWheaton's organizers say, is to risk losing a network of fellow - minded alumni.
I for one will be doing like one commentor there said and moving all applications from Penn State alumni to the very bottom of the list.
In a Harris Survey of alumni, 54 percent said the Club saved their lives.
On behalf of University Sport at Oxford, I would like to say how very grateful I am for the tremendous support from so many alumni.»
Valera said the alumni, many of them now college wrestlers, will come into the room and make the team better.
«You look at Texas and A&M, they're bigger universities, have bigger alumni bases, so I think Texas Tech always has had a chip on its shoulder in trying to be right in there on that level instead of having them a step above,» said Kingsbury.
«Heck, we saved this town $ 500,000 by building the new football field house ourselves, and all of the money was donated,» Curry says of the generosity on the part of Berwick alumni.
«The NFL alumni showed some of the most pronounced abnormalities in brain activity that I have ever seen,» said lead author Adam Hampshire, a neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»
«David Paterson is an alumnus of that school,» Hempstead Deputy Superintendent Julius Brown said recently.
«Aside from being a distinguished alumnus, his political success and ability to overcome hardship makes him an inspiration for all of our students,» School Board President Betty J. Cross said in a statement.
John Dau, a Class of 2011 alumnus of Syracuse University, author and education activist, said that education plays a vital role in the community, and added that without the Syracuse City School District, he would not be where he is today.
«I hereby call on other philanthropists, good spirited people, parents, alumni and other stakeholders to join us in taking the institution to its place of pride among other Nigerian universities,» she said.
Speaking about his appointment, Peter said, «It is a distinct honour to take on the Presidency of the Institute and take over from a fellow Bovis alumnus in Alan Crane.
Responding, Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said he noticed how proud the institute's alumni members were about what they got or achieved from it.
«Aaron Podolefsky provided outstanding leadership in his three years of service as president of SUNY Buffalo State and I join the students, faculty, staff and alumni of the campus as well as his colleagues across SUNY in wishing him the very best as he steps down to focus on his health,» Zimpher said.
«I came to Congress to be a strong, independent leader for central New York and have successfully fought hard to bring real results to our community,» Katko, a Syracuse University College of Law alumnus, said in an email.
Meanwhile, in a statement earlier signed by the Assistant National Publicity Secretary of the Alumni, Femi Akande, he said the association had exploited all avenues to ensure that the alleged funds were returned to the alumni account but it proved abortive.
Another thing that many of the programs do, said Christopher Babic, an alumnus of Pennsylvania State University's PSM program in biotechnology, is force many students who want the degree to take on debt.
Patrick Brandt, director of career development and training at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and another working group participant, says he uses the jobs his program's alumni are in to determine which careers his office's skill development programming should focus on.
«Acquired resistance is important because it is the basis of vaccination campaigns based on «herd immunity», where immunization of a subset of individuals protects all from a pathogen,» said Jason Rohr, an associate professor of integrative biology who led the research team with Taegan McMahon, a USF alumnus who is now an assistant professor of biology at the University of Tampa.
«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.
But McKenzie, who has studied the alumni of orphanages in the U.S. — and was an orphan himself, growing up in the Barium Springs Home for Children, an orphanage in North Carolina — says that the conclusion of the paper «doesn't surprise me as much as it might others.»
From McKenzie's research of U.S. orphanage alumni, he says, he found his subjects to have outpaced not only those who were adopted or went into foster care, but also their peers who grew up with their biological parents.
There are more than 580 alumni in the program, «and out of that number we know at over 80 % are now working in STEM fields,» said Laureen Summers, the program's coordinator.
«A hundred acres of corn may have a value of just $ 800,000, while the same number of acres planted in strawberries may be worth $ 7.5 million,» said Devasia Manuel, a recent Illinois alumnus.
«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
«The highest melt rates are all clustered at the start of a developing ice shelf channel,» said Scripps alumnus Oliver Marsh, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Canterbury and lead author of the study.
This predictive model could be used to figure out what these side effects are ahead of time,» said UC San Diego alumnus Aarash Bordbar, who did this research while a Ph.D. student in Palsson's Systems Biology Research Group.
«There is tremendous variability in how often reef animals reproduce and release eggs and larvae, yet they all find their way to coral reefs,» said Andrew Kough, UM Rosenstiel School alumnus and lead author of the study.
«It appears that TFA alumni candidates running for school boards paid attention to both national and local messages because of a growing recognition that local politics is far from dead,» said Jacobsen, associate professor of teacher education and lead investigator on the study.
«Importing water - intensive goods from one water - scarce region to another doesn't solve the problem of water scarcity — it just shifts the pressure to other regions,» says co-author Klaus Hubacek, a researcher at the University of Maryland and an alumnus of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program.