Sentences with phrase «of the few students of»

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

All of the interviewed students who knew Minassian found the news of his arrest surprising, though a few described him to The Globe and Mail as having trouble speaking and physical tics.

The time spent in the work force before launching Swift helped Harris refinance his loans to a lower interest rate through SoFi, one of a few new marketplace lenders focusing on student - loan debt.

It was totally unsolicited and in a student neighborhood of Boston where very few other customers had heard of Redd Foxx.

Notably, many of her students are millennials who have worked for a few years and are back in school before returning to the workforce, Weiss explains.

The complete post is well worth reading in full if you're feeling a little at sea at your new school (or if you're hoping to offer some guidance to the college student in your life), but here are a few of his tips in brief in get you started.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

I was scheduled to meet with a few students, but many of them were running late.

A few students from McGill University, for example, garnered summer internship offers from major companies that were willing to pay upwards of $ 50,000.

But the very best of the lot share a few common qualities: They are all supremely well educated, highly talented researchers, exceptional teachers, and, perhaps most important of all, they inspire students and their students inspire them.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

EdX, one of the few non-profit MOOC providers, launched a pilot program at San Jose State University last fall for students in the Introduction to Circuits Analysis class.

That discretionary part of the budget has been squeezed over the past few years, while Republicans controlling Congress have largely ignored the ever - growing tide of automatic - pilot spending on benefit programs like food stamps, student loans, and Medicare.

And with fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

That was the scenario a few days ago at Hero City in San Mateo, where Adam Draper, founder of the Bitcoin - focused startup accelerator Boost, interviewed four members of his family before an audience of Boost participants and Draper University students.

The tool can be customized for a large number of students or only a few.

LinkedIn says it's quietly made the app available a few months ago and a total of 1,500 students across 300 colleges.

According to The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, only about 8 % of undergraduate students receive scholarships each year (they average $ 3,400) and fewer than 1 % receive athletic scholarships (which average $ 10,200).

A few years later, one of his students was teaching the exact same content but targeting a different group of people charging $ 100,000!

Taser, of course, is best known for the tiny stun guns carried by police and sometimes civilians, made particularly famous a few years ago when a student at the University of Florida screamed «Don't tase me, bro!»

In the United States, we graduate fewer students from high school, but nearly two - thirds of those we graduate go to college.

In another experiment, participants punished a hypothetical high school student after relatively few instances of bad behavior, but required markedly more instances of good behavior to grant the student an equivalent reward.

Few students from the bottom half of their class at Harvard pursued an education in science or math.

She's not pursuing a job in finance or consulting so was not bound to the recruiting schedule that can start as early as the first few weeks of an HBS student's first month on campus.

Startup cost would be $ 250,000 which includes the space, renovations (I own my own startup construction company as of last month), two busses, insurance, TABC fees, and a staff of roughly 25 people per bar (this would create good jobs for college students to pay for school as well as a few manager / event coordinator positions).

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Half of millennials are carrying student loan debt and the resulting financial pressures are so severe that fewer than two in five are saving for retirement, with many also delaying such key steps in life as buying a first home and getting married, according to a major new online survey of 1,016 millennials conducted in April 2015 by the nonprofit Investor Protection Institute.

Last week, a South China Morning Post article caught the attention of an informal seminar I hold every Sunday evening at my home, mostly for current and former Peking University students and a few outsiders.

One of the few ways to eliminate your student loans is through bankruptcy, but it is notoriously difficult.

Although most students have at least some form of student loan debt, few understand the basics of how these loans actually work.

Since many or most PhD students are funded off of grants from the government and tuition is one of the few «overhead» items Universities can charge to these grants, making tuition taxable removes a costless mechanism for Universities to funnel money that could go to more research into administrative overhead.

The federal government offers a few programs for rehabilitation, but this might not be the best route depending on what type of student loan debt you have.

Providing corporations access to Haskayne's most involved marketing students and offering time and monetary contributions to local charities are a few of the many ways AIM gets involved in the Calgary community.

With a long - standing cultural history and housing a few thousand students, there is a perfect mix of young and old.

«With fewer student loans to hold them back, students at these top private colleges graduate ahead of the financial curve.»

However, borrowers do have a few more protections in place in case of default on a federal student loan:

And while federal loans come with their own set of challenges and risks, all 1.37 million private loan borrowers are often subject to fewer protections and less flexible repayment plans than those offered under federal loan agreements.Less accommodating repayment options and more rigid terms can quickly lead to private student loan defaults, which is a dangerous financial place to be.

Students that have the required internships haven't received job offers from companies since 79 % of employers have hired 30 % or fewer interns into full - time positions.

Backed by some of Chile's wealthiest investors, Idea Factory has set up a few locations throughout Santiago to give inventors a place to work and to provide students and budding entrepreneurs with access to classes and influential leaders.

Also, few private student loan borrowers provide an option to extend repayment to more than 15 years, regardless of the total amount owed.

Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg called for that boycott after host Laura Ingraham mocked him on Twitter for not getting into a few of the colleges of his choice.

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I foward the link to a few of my students.

As gunshots rang out in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a teacher guided a few dozen students into a tiny classroom near the culinary area.

There are a number of student loan repayment assistance programs throughout the country that can help you pay off private student loans after a few years of qualifying work.

Federal Student Aid recommends that you choose one of the income - driven repayment plan options, because if you end up taking a job with a low salary (or just have a lower salary that typically comes early in a career), your repayments could be as low as a few dollars a month.

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A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.