Sentences with phrase «small rural colleges»

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I grew up in a rural area in a town with a population smaller than my first college dormitory!

Yet his world is so stereotyped that we could choose one from an urban, suburban, small town, or rural church, anywhere from Maine to California and from college age to retirement, and find great similarities.

To conduct the study, Bahns and colleagues recruited 268 students from either K.U. (a large university of over 25,000 students) or one of four smaller rural Kansas colleges of about 500 to 1,000 students each.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

He noted that many small and rural colleges serving mostly nonminority students have similar information technology needs.

I grew up in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA and did my undergraduate work in chemistry at Messiah College, a small school (~ 2800 undergraduates only) in Grantham, Pennsylvania, USA.

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

He was a professor of rural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, until his retirement in 1965, and helped launch school - improvement projects in small, remote school districts.

At the Awards ceremony, Ashden's Founder Director Sarah Butler - Sloss said: «We are delighted to see such a broad range of school winners — from a small rural primary school with just 97 pupils to a large further education college with over 14,000 students.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

Because of the small size of many rural districts, launching innovative programs such as early - college initiatives in rural North Carolina or efforts to expand access to Advanced Placement courses in rural Tennessee is «impossible,» he added.

Mike Siebersma, Education Northwest This poster highlights early results from a small rural high school's systematic change process to improve students» college readiness by addressing critical reading skills.

We highlighted the challenges and successes of two small, rural high schools that are improving college and career readiness for all students by collaborating with partners such as community colleges and local businesses.

There the Wonderful Company has built a state - of - the - art K - 12 campus, with an innovative «early college» Agricultural Prep Pathway, and also is helping to implement the same Ag Prep pathway in high schools in six other surrounding small rural communities.

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Likewise, many colleges and universities also may not see the potential for an afterschool partnership with schools and community groups in small towns and rural areas.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

Through collaboration with Ball State University (chirp, chirp) we have been able to give our students a jump start to college, with our students earning approximately 330 credits, which I think is tremendous for a small rural school.

North Marion School District is a small K - 12 district located in a rural community south of Portland, Oregon with an exciting vision to prepare all its students to succeed in college and career.

Resilient Southern Illinois Partners include: Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools; Consortium for Educational Change; Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department; Harvard University Graduate School of Education — Education Redesign Lab; Illinois Education Association; John A. Logan College; Southern Illinois P - 20 Education Alliance; Shawnee Community College; SIU — Carbondale College of Education and Human Services; SIU School of Medicine Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development; SIU School of Medicine Children's Medical and Mental Health Resource Network; SIU School of Medicine Office of Population Science and Policy.

Juliet, Naked follows the intertwining stories of Duncan, a college professor in a small English town whose one passion is for the music of Tucker Crowe; Duncan's girlfriend Annie, who is beginning to realize how angry she is that she's just spent 15 years with a man who loves Tucker Crowe more than her; and Tucker Crowe himself, who has been in near - seclusion in rural Pennsylvania since shortly after the release of his greatest album, Juliet, in 1986.

After growing up in that small rural town, my dad, the youngest son, went away to college and then to art school.

After college, Devin gained additional experience by doing an internship in Arkansas in a small, rural mixed animal practice.