Sentences with phrase «on college experience»

Many years later I did get my degree but I missed out on the college experience.

The vast majority of public high schools offer access to hands - on college experience with almost all (98 percent) offering career preparation.

Over the decades, tens of thousands of students of color have been effectively and happily educated on predominantly white college campuses across this wonderful country of ours, and most of those students look back fondly on their college experiences.

If students waited until senior year to have these conversations, «that wouldn't have much impact on their college experiences, so it would become a wasted opportunity.»

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Pursuing a degree will hopefully provide the accreditation he needs to teach college - level courses, plus the knowledge on entrepreneurship principles and experiences beyond what he's learned firsthand.

Before you ask them to write you a check, spend enough time with potential investors to show them — based on your experiences in college, sports or family life — that you have all these traits.

Merrill and Beck had some experience with the video game business — in college they had helped raise money for another startup game studio, persuading their fathers and others to invest, and earned observer seats on the board.

A University of Arizona study on college students» financial behaviors found that three things help there: Parental involvement, taking a personal finance class and having a part - time job and other hands - on money experience.

The deal to manage the NBA Store, which it signed in May, is new territory for Fanatics, although it does have some relevant experience in brick - and - mortar on a smaller scale, thanks to recent retail promotions at NASCAR tracks and at college and pro stadiums.

** Apply Now ** Are you an enthusiastic college - or graduate - student entrepreneur, eager to share your on - campus experiences?

«Nearly all employers agree that all college students should have experiences that teach them how to solve problems with people whose views are different from their own,» LinkedIn's report on in - demand skills notes.

Take six months off after college to see the world and take on experiences outside of your comfort zone.

Solis: The older generation is making decisions based on their experience and how they went through life — going to college, getting a job, getting married, buying a house and buying a car.

Granted, I had some common background (we're both Mormon, both lived in Brazil, both entrepreneurs), and since I was a college student at the time, I played that card (entrepreneurs are suckers when it comes to giving advice to students — I speak from experience on both sides).

Business Insider recently released it annual list of the best colleges in America, which focused on graduation rate, post-graduation salary, and overall student life experience.

A college degree is still a prerequisite for many jobs, but employers often do not trust it enough to hire workers just on the strength of that, without experience.

First - generation college students and underrepresented minorities benefit from Global EIR mentors providing an introduction to entrepreneurship with up - to - date experience to prepare them for a future career ever more focused on innovation and creativity.

Also, because we are college graduates (yeah, we graduated along the way), we have decent writing skills and would be able to interview people based on their experiences and show people real world examples of how to succeed and fail in recruiting.

Depending on your background and experience you can become a consultant in almost any field, such as marketing, college admissions, legal consulting and quality control, just to name a few.

i His writing and his work with Impact Investing draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, Waldorf teacher and co-founder of three social enterprises: 1) From 28 - 34 a farm based campus for young people who wanted a college experience without intellectual academics; 2) from 43 - 46 a biological healthcare company and 3) from 46 - present a workflow technology firm focused on personalizing healthcare.

I do hope to one day experience the adventure that is marriage, but had God fulfilled my college - age dreams of marriage and kids in my twenties, I probably would have missed out on many, if not all of those other adventures.

A little while back, my fiancé and I were discussing how in so many ways, because we didn't take what seemed the traditional path through college or the typical path to adulthood, we felt like we'd missed out on many experiences that we wish we'd had.

About 200 LGBT and straight alumni from California's evangelical Westmont College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.»

Part One, here called «Human Experience and Process Thought,» was given on the Alexander Brown Foundation as a series of lectures at Randolph - Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, U.S.A. in 1976; the material in Part Two, here called «God in Process: Christian Faith and Process Thought,» was a series of lectures given at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, England in 1966.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

I applied to study on the foundation course at Moorlands College, having had very little church experience.

However, the sexual temptations, relational conflicts and emotional breakdowns often experienced on a college campus are intensified by the new pressures of becoming an adult.

The best way to «sell» one's teenager on being a hospital volunteer or helping in a summer camp for the retarded is self - interest: «It will look good on your college application; it will teach you something you can use later on» If the young manage to catch a glimpse of selflessness in the process, fine; but we didn't direct them to value that part of the experience, nor did we expect that they would think of it in terms of «service» to others.

It has been my experience that by the time people get to college, they simply request that their profs not plan exams or other important things on major religious holidays.

Much of the work centers on Miller's experiences with friends and fellow students while auditing courses at Reed College, a liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.College, a liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.college in Portland, Oregon.»

If she follows trends found in every major study of higher education since the 1950s, Paula's experience of college will have a secularizing impact on her faith, mediating the intellectual relativism and cultural eclecticism that is so much a part of her postmodern world.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a product of the southern black experience: son of a Baptist preacher, graduate of Morehouse College, holder of a Ph.D. degree in systematic theology, black preacher, prophet in word and deed — Martin Luther King, Jr., came on too strong for a nation that had from its very inception used so much of its energy in declaring black people invisible, irrelevant, null and void.

It is simply a conclusion based on unhappy experiences with college teachers of theology.

When I spoke at Wheaton College during a public conversation on Christian and Muslim perspectives on religious diversity, I was impressed again and again by the students who stood up during the Q&A session and shared experiences they'd had meeting deeply religious peers of other traditions.

This talk on education makes me feel less crazy about my school experience - straight A student who was fidgety and hated every minute of school, until college.

On college campuses students flock to courses in religious studies, keep local Zen masters busy, and startle their teachers with tales of conversion and mystical experiences.

Well, if you are in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend — which, by the way, I can recommend on the basis of my ample experience in that fine city — check out a lecture by Dr. Alister Chapman, Westmont College professor: «John Stott and the Renewal of the Church.»

Certainly, both of us saw and experienced some of the immoral and destructive things that happened when, in past days, young women from Randolph Macon Woman's College, Sweet Briar, or Mary Washington College visited the university for football games or parties on «big weekends.»

Remember, I started eating healthy from ground zero while working two jobs in college, so if anybody understands that it's not easy to eat healthy on - the - go or with little to no experience, it's me.

Being first - time food and college entrepreneurs, their industry experience, and hands - on approach has truly helped in getting us off the ground when countless other manufacturers turned us away.

With over 25 years of experience in the industrial automation repair industry, Jeff Conner is the Dallas Service Manager for Control Concepts and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Electronics Technologies Department at Texas State Technical College.

I had yet another wonderful experience being not only a judge for the high school culinary state championships at Kendall College on Monday, I was also lucky enough to be a taste judge too!

«The hospitality management summer program was a tremendous opportunity for rising high school seniors to experience college life and gain hands on appreciation for what the hospitality industry can offer as a career opportunity,» said Dean Deborah Merrill - Sands of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Ecocollege life and gain hands on appreciation for what the hospitality industry can offer as a career opportunity,» said Dean Deborah Merrill - Sands of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and EcoCollege of Business and Economics.

Students spent one week on the UNH campus, participating in and experiencing the excitement of what college life has to offer.

«We are really excited about the collaboration with the college,» said Tera «Dixie» Luty, Beer Manager for Roscoe Beer Co. «It was a truly different experience explaining the product to the students and giving them a real project to work on, especially compared to explaining the product and the company to resellers.

I never had the success on the basketball court that Gary experienced, but I have been successful in life since college.

His athletic playing and coaching experience includes: Coached BAVC boys and girls club teams including 18s (boys and girls), 16s (boys and girls), 15s (girls), and 13s (girls) Current De La Salle Junior Varsity Coach Former Clayton Valley High Girls Varsity Head and Assistant Coach Former Las Lomas High Varsity Assistant Coach Former St. Francis CYO and Walnut Creek Youth Basketball Coach Former AA Rated Sand & Grass Doubles Division I Football and Basketball Player (University of Maine) All - State High School Football Player (Maine) Rich brings a broad perspective on youth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athlete.

a man with no college coaching experience who gets paid millions of dollars to talk on TV once a week, loves it, and has repeatedly shot down college interest.

They begin sooner and produce monetary rewards that mock anybody old - fashioned enough to insist on the college «experience.»