Sentences with phrase «percent women students»

M.F.A. programs are now comprised of 60 percent women students.

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Each college is permitted to send 20 students, however 30 percent or more must be women.

The second blow was encountering a student body that was approximately 50 percent women and 50 percent black.

[6] African American students, men and women combined, amounted to less than 7.3 percent of the total student population.

First, a school can show that the number of opportunities is proportional to the number of women on campus (i.e. if the full - time undergraduate student body is 50 percent women, 50 percent of the athletic opportunities must be for women.)

Beard agrees that students should understand what basic foods are, but says that with more than 60 percent of American women in the work force and a proliferation of fast - food outlets, meals from scratch and tomatoes direct from the farm are not common.

The vast majority of the students at these schools are women, some 70 percent, and 41 percent are black or Hispanic.

Also on Sunday, Cuomo reiterated his proposals to award 30 percent of state contracts to firms owned by women or racial minorities and to have the state cover student loan payments for up to two years for SUNY and CUNY graduates who remain in - state.

While acknowledging that sexual assault was still a problem in the city, Brewer said the numbers indicated that more women were at least coming forward to report crimes, after McCray noted that 90 percent of female college students who experience sexual assault do not report it at all.

Three - hundred and eighty - nine non-Hispanic white women ages 18 to 30 who had used an indoor tanning device one or more times in the prior 12 months completed online questionnaires; 46.7 percent of the participants were current college or university students.

«Fifty percent of your students are women.

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

Women make up only 18 percent of undergraduate engineering majors, and 23 percent of engineering graduate students.

Only a few students (1.8 percent) reported that they had received messages that made them aware of the opportunities for women and minorities in STEM fields, or of the general need for more professionals in these fields.

Only 10 percent of the engineering work force in the United States is female, and just 20 percent of students enrolled in engineering degree programs are women.

A report of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education noted with alarm that in vocational programs girls comprise «only 4 % of heating, A / C and refrigeration students, 5 % of welding students, 6 % of electrical and plumber / pipefitter students,» while girls make up 98 percent of students enrolled in cosmetology and 87 percent of those studying child care.

Despite being 57 percent of the undergraduate student population, women make up only 19 percent of engineering students.

With young women making up close to 60 percent of college students, critics like Richard Whitmire, former USA Today editorial writer and author of Why Boys Fail, worry that today's schools — with their emphasis on order, sitting still, and passive learning — are much better suited to girls than to boys.

Recent data from a study we are doing here at Wellesley Centers for Women with a large, racially diverse sample of low - income students in a large urban school district found that 95 percent of students, both boys and girls, aspired to attend college when asked in 9th and 10th grade.

At a time when the majority of American college students are female — currently 57 percent of all students — higher education's conversation surrounding women's rights is largely dominated by modern feminist ideology.

Roughly 63 percent of female students identify as feminists, and while no similar statistic is available for female faculty or staff members, most likely an even... Continue reading «Campus Feminism: The Real War on Women»

Although there are still significantly more women than men enrolled — 72 percent compared to 28 percent — the racial and ethnic makeup of incoming candidates was more reflective of students than in the past.

Williams - Bolar would end up spending 10 days in jail for placing her two daughters in the relatively high - performing (and, more important to her, safe) Copley - Fairlawn school district (where few of the black students drop out) instead of keeping them in the woeful, more - dangerous Akron district (whose Balfanz rate for young black men and women, respectively, is 62 percent and 76 percent) in which her family resided.

With less and less women entering the Catholic Church to serve as a nun, the church states that the numbers have decreased 72.5 percent since the 1960s, it seems odd that the church would refuse to let a woman enter the order due to an outstanding student loan, but that is exactly what has happened in New York.

According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), data shows that college - educated makes who graduated in 2008 were able to pay off more than 40 percent of their student debt between 2009 and 2012, while women were barely able to cover 30 percent of their overall debt in the same timefWomen (AAUW), data shows that college - educated makes who graduated in 2008 were able to pay off more than 40 percent of their student debt between 2009 and 2012, while women were barely able to cover 30 percent of their overall debt in the same timefwomen were barely able to cover 30 percent of their overall debt in the same timeframe.

In fact, the average female student owed nearly 20 percent more than her male counterpart at the point of insolvency, and 60 percent of student loan debtors overall are women.

Displayed on the wall of no. 76 John Street, the Arts Office Gallery, in bright yellows, hot pinks and fashioned greens is the Guerrilla Girls» big question: «Seventy - one percent of Irish Art Students are women.

Thirty - six percent of all Cooper Union first - year students identify as women.

In fall 2011, 47 percent of applicants to ABA - approved law schools in the United States were women, according to the Law School Admission Council, and 46 percent of students admitted to those schools were women.

According to the National Association for Law Placement, a trade group that provides career counselling to lawyers and law students, only about 17 percent of the partners at major law firms nationwide [US] were women in 2005, a figure that has risen only slightly since 1995, when about 13 percent of partners were women.