Sentences with phrase «of helping students who»

Now we turn to the benefits of helping students who find school difficult maintain a positive mindset as they persist in the sometimes hard work required for learning.

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In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

For example, when Prison Break's Wentworth Miller came out on Facebook talking about his struggle with depression, it created a fabulous opportunity for one of my students Jason Finucan, who speaks about destigmatizing mental illness in the workplace, to help take a celebrity story and parse it in such a way that a lay audience can understand and apply it in their daily lives.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.

Stephen Ost, founder of Ufree University of Arizona - student Ost created the mobile app Ufree, to help his peers answer what he sees their number one social dilemma: «Who is free to hang out right now?»

It tells the story of a college student who looks to the universe to help her find romance, before realizing that Mr. Right happened to be there all along.

One potential source of help, once the chaos subsided, came from a community organization called «US» (meaning «as opposed to them»), which was formed by members of a discussion group called the «Circle of Seven,» led by Malcolm X's cousin Hakim Jamal and one of Malcolm X's disciples, a UCLA Africana Studies doctoral student who was born Ron Everett but changed his name to Maulana Karenga.

Those students were Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who would go on to found Google, with the help of two $ 100,000 cheques from Cheriton and Bechtolsheim.

To explore the places where design thinking and lean startup intersect, we organized a conversation between two faculty members who help run the Stanford Graduate School of Business Startup Garage, where students design and test new ventures.

That cycle of trying, failing, and trying again helps prepare students to pitch bullet proof ideas to angel investors, says Startup Garage instructor Stefanos Zenios, who is also a professor of operations, information, and technology at Stanford.

We started thinking about how we could take this group of highly knowledgeable, experienced college - student tutors who had availability and match them up with students who needed help at any given time.

Now, it has a three full - time employees who provide assistance to student entrepreneurs and help grow the roster of Las Vegas - based entrepreneurs who serve as mentors to the students.

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

In 2011, he announced an $ 11.5 million investment to support the creation of a new university center, to help renovate Millikin's oldest residence hall and to double the number of students who participate in a scholars program.

However, it's a specific type of plan offered by the Department of Education that helps students who can't afford their monthly federal student loan payments under the Standard Repayment Plan.

The city will spend $ 200,000 on a program that helps high school students who dream of being entrepreneurs.

PEP will assist small businesses by providing them access to some of our region's top business students, who can help brainstorm fresh ideas and solutions to real challenges facing a business.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

Ever since I paid off my $ 38,000 worth of student loans last year, I have received many e-mails from parents who are interested in seeking help for their children.

Over 100 chapters of useful information to help Entrepreneurs; people who are starting a business; people running a business; students leaving college, or University, who want sound, good, practical advice, about their business.

Kalanick, a natural salesman who sold knives door - to - door as a high school student one summer, helped bring in investment from Michael Ovitz, cofounder of the talent agency CAA, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate.

What's more, almost 2 in 5 parents (19 percent) surveyed said they were unaware of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which can help eliminate debt for parents and students who hold government jobs or work for certain nonprofits.

The calls show the brave, but terrified voices of students who were trying to get help for wounded classmates.

The principal of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High thanked the therapy dogs who helped students on their first day back to class since the shooting;

Standing with a group of families who had traveled to the State Capitol from Parkland, an emotional Mr. Scott called the classmates of the slain students and their parents his inspiration, and praised them for helping persuade lawmakers to pass legislation, even if neither they nor he agreed with all of its provisions.

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.

These are ambitious students who could help you gain insight on the impact of your business on their demographic.

Haley Zink, a 21 - year - old community college student who helped to organize a «sibling march» in St. Louis, Missouri, had a message for those who think this movement is just a bunch of loud kids: «I want to it be clear to everyone that, no we are not.»

The Florida high school student, a survivor of the February 14 shooting in Parkland who recently helped organize the March For Our Lives, said four different campuses in the University of California school system have turned him down: UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.

The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra.

Thai medical students say prayers over the coffins of hundreds of cadavers, in a solemn ceremony to bid farewell to the corpses who helped them...

Valparaiso University's venerable president, O.P. Kretzmann, responded positively to our proposal that the university send annually a team of students for year - long service, so each of our churches hosted young volunteers who helped us expand our work with children and their families.

«All methods and techniques — and of course all human beings who propound them — are merely instruments to help the student attain a methodless technique - free teacherless state.

He not only provides detailed explanations of the text all the way through (which providing lots of footnotes for those who want to research in more depth), but he also provides theological asides that help the student of Scripture see how the book influences our life and thinking today.

Not much more than ten years ago a competent student of mine at the University of Chicago who had done good experimental work trying to help addicts wrote his B. D. essay on this subject.

I prepared an instrument for the assessors to use, supervised the work of four or five professional ministers who helped me perform the assessment, and recommended to the faculty and administration what course or courses each student would be required to take in speech communication in order to become «competent» pulpit performers.

Instead, the teacher is basically a researcher who needs the student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.

I and my family, including children, are all Atheists, all of my children are honor students, and model citizens of their country, by volunteering to help the homeless, cleaning parks and one even is taking care of her sickly grandmother who can't even feed herself.

This was taken as a signal by my former student and friend, Dele Giwa, who had suffered for his journalistic courage and integrity, to try yet again with a new weekly newsmagazine, Newswatch, with the help of fellow journalists Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed, and Dan Agbese.

We sat on the student interview committee that would help choose a new member of the philosophy faculty, and we were thrilled one day to find ourselves interviewing Professor Russell Hittinger, an eminent natural law theorist who had taught at Fordham, Princeton, and the Catholic University of America.

To the extent that we succeed in this, the student then becomes the kind of pastor who can help others find a religious faith which is viable for them.

The conclusion would be a severe condemnation of those of us, for example, who make our living as professors in First World universities seeking to help the privileged students who attend them.

I think we should clear up the notion that lots of people seem to have that Bill Nye somehow needs the publicity of this statement and that he's somehow not qualified to speak on this subject: Bill Nye is a noted astrophysicist who designed planes for Boeing, was a student and friend of Carl Sagan, and helped design parts of the Mars Rover.

It is proper, educationally, to speak of students who «do» theology or Bible study or moral analysis, utilizing the skills which we have helped them to develop.

The L.A. Times has just posted a lengthy expose outlining what several women say was pattern of inappropriate behavior by Franco, who also helped operate a film school called Studio 4, and would offer students the opportunity to star in some of Franco's own projects.

My idea of a hero is a student / individual who: «cents Helps a person with special needs «cents Takes time to talk to the new kid «cents Asks someone how they are doing «cents Stands up for those who aren't strong enough to do so themselves «cents Makes sure others know that they care about them «cents Is a leader who sets an example that treating others negatively is wrong «cents Isn't a follower when others are being treated unfairly

She helps out at school by tutoring other students in various subjects, and is viewed by her peers as a leader and a supportive person who is willing to help people out at the expense of her own studying.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

I hope you younger students, even you girls way back there in the sunshine yellow ties, remember that the little things you do for others really make a difference — not only for the people who you help, but for your own growth and sense of self - worth.