Sentences with phrase «of graduate students said»

About 60 % of graduate students said that they felt overwhelmed, exhausted, hopeless, sad, or depressed nearly all the time.

According to a report from the University of California (UC), nearly half of graduate students said that a mental or emotional problem had interfered with their academic work in the past year.

In my time as president of RISD, more than 70 % of graduating students said they wanted to do something entrepreneurial after graduation.

Not exact matches

«Part of the juice feeding the job growth in Atlanta and in the Southeast in general are the incredibly strong education institutions which are graduating students which are highly attractive to employers,» Dase said.

Jamie Byron, co-founder of 30 Under 30 honoree Grove, says the personal fulfillment from starting his own company after graduating from MIT in 2013 has been worth any amount of student - loan debt.

Lauren Friese, founder of TalentEgg.ca, a job and career resource website for students and recent graduates that also works closely with employers, says graduating from university and college and entering the workforce has always has been a challenging transition.

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it on the job.

«It isn't a goal for Harvard Business School to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business school.

«He tended to wheel around the low dais at the front of the room while he delivered his pre-recorded lecture and a graduate student wrote equations on the blackboard,» said Colless.

Women made up only about 25 % of the students in department when she started, which dwindled to 15 % by the time she graduated in 2005, she says.

That, and students not necessarily limiting themselves to the national market: «When I graduated in the»70s, it was really rare to think about anything outside of Canada and even outside of Ontario, quite honestly,» he says.

Money may be an evil, he said during a recent visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business, but he urged students to «get the money, and don't lose your moral compass when you do.»

«During my career, I recognized that business school students were not graduating with the full complement of skills necessary to help their new organizations address real - world challenges,» says CCMF president and chief executive officer Marcel Desautels.

In a 2016 survey, graduate - level nursing students said they expected to leave their program with a median debt of $ 40,000 to $ 54,999, according to a report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).

If you have a student loan (and we're guessing you do — the researchers at ProjectOnStudentDebt.org say seven of 10 college students who graduated in 2013 owed money on a student loan, averaging nearly $ 30,000 in debt each) or would love to help others knock down those payments, you'll want to know about SponsorChange.

The president of one of Canada's leading banks, CIBC CEO Victor Dodig, said that we graduate students who are over-qualified but do not have the skills needed by industries.

Both graduate students and new faculty say that they decided to pursue the doctorate in religion or theology because they became keenly interested in a subject — Bible or ethics or anthropology of religion.

One might even say that when a student is capable of writing a good eucharistic prayer, he or she may be ready to graduate.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

At any rate, in a paper I wrote a couple of years later in graduate school, I argued both the pro and anti-abortion positions, and when another student» an antiabortion activist, I think» angrily demanded to know my opinion, I said, honestly, that I didn't know.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

«Feeling a sense of belonging can contribute to student success; we want students to be successful in and out of the classroom, and once they graduate and start their career we want them to be comfortable in what they do,» Executive Director of Culinary Services Guy Procopio says.

Ashley Dumas, a graduate student at the University of Alabama who directed the excavations at the original Tabasco ® factory said that the bottle found in the Comstock mining district of Virginia City is a Type 1a bottle, one of the earliest forms known.

Nicola Byrom, an Oxford graduate student who carried the Torch around the track after Sir Roger, said of the experience: «It was completely overwhelming.

Young Adult Literature Featuring Mental Illness and Suicide Bibliophile and literacy graduate student Tara Anderson of Durham says young adult literature can facilitate discussions about depression and suicide.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

«Women who expect it's going to be hard and are employed nevertheless have better mental health outcomes,» said the study's author, Katrina Leupp, a University of Washington sociology graduate student.

Here are some of the pros and cons of a single - gender school: Pros «From my experience in the schools and students I've encountered, an all - girls school gives the best all - around educational experience for most students,» says Alexis Browsh, who teaches at and graduated from a private girls» school outside of Philadelphia and owns the tutoring company Ready Tutors.

They said 39 percent of SUNY students at four - year colleges graduate in four years, and 9 percent of community college students do so in two years.

«Student loans are one of the greatest challenges that today's recent college graduates face when starting their careers — and we must do more to give them a full opportunity to succeed,» Cuomo said in a statement.

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«Student loan debt is a huge deterrent for young people to attend and ultimately graduate from college,» said Rick Dalton, CEO of the Essex - based College for Every Student.

The class of 540 students, which was supposed to be sworn in last January, will be combined with the 900 - member graduating class in July, said Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Today's students are, as he says: «highly anxious about taking on an average of # 44,000 worth of debt in an uncertain job market where nearly half of employed recent graduates are in non-graduate jobs.»

Syracuse's increase in graduating students can be attributed to the district's commitment to offering multiple pathways to graduation, said Linda Mulvey, the chief academic officer of the Syracuse City School District.

Dr Anim - Wright said this in Accra on Saturday when she addressed graduands of the University at the 14th graduation ceremony of which 409 students graduated in Bachelor of Arts in communication studies and Bachelor of Science in business administration.

Elia said the latest data shows that urban school districts are capable of graduating students, but might need more options from which kids can choose.

The VC said that a total of 9,018 students graduated from the University out of which there are 89 first class, 1,932 Second Class Upper Division, 3,727 Second Class Lower Division, 1309 Third Class, 117 Pass and Two Aegrotats.

The mayor said 67 percent of Richmond Hill students across all grade levels are now on track to graduate, up from 60 percent at this point last year.

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, also said Success» likely expansion could create more of a wedge between Success and the city's other charters, since the network will serve by far the most students and require the most public dollars, a sentiment echoed by some independent charter leaders.

But he says he wishes there were more in it to help recent graduates who owe tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, among other things.

«The debt is so high it's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Mr. Cuomo said of the student loans most college graduates face — a figure that totals more than $ 1 trillion nationally.

Speaking of the $ 30,000 or more in debt that many college students in New York accumulate by the time they graduate, Cuomo said, «It's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg.»

Fifty - nine percent of the students graduated with debt, the organization said.

THE BRONX — The city's graduation rate has hit an all - time high with 72.6 percent of students graduating in four years compared to 70.5 percent last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said Friday.

However, the health professionals which include Ghana Nurse - Midwife Trainees Association, the National Health Students Association of Ghana, unemployed nurses and other graduates of allied health institutions have said despite the disrespect from the minister, their two - week ultimatum to government to respond accordingly to their petition still holds.

«The Say Yes Buffalo partnership has provided our students with a reason to work hard and graduate from high school, with the promise of a college tuition scholarship,» said Buffalo Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash.