Sentences with phrase «students find support»

At College Prep we realize that all students learn in their own unique ways, and at the Learning Center students find support with subject specialists and peers through one - on - one consultations, workshops, and peer tutoring.

Not exact matches

Sustainability - minded students will find an array of courses and support systems offered through the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

A survey by the student newspaper, The Harbus, found that Obama had the support of 65 % of the students versus 32 % for Romney.

Parisa Soraya of University of Michigan launched Find Your Ditto to create a peer - support mobile platform for those with chronic illnesses and recently competed at SXSW Student Startup Madness.

Harvard researchers Phil Stone and Tal Ben - Shahar have found that students with strong social support, both at school and at home, tended to be happier and better at dealing with stress.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

A recent poll conducted on behalf of RBCsup ® / sup finds that students who receive less than one - quarter of their funding from parents feel more confident in their financial decision making and are more likely to make and stick to a budget compared to their peers who receive more financial support from their parents.

His earlier donations founded the Desautels Centre and supported student scholarships.

Founded in 1973 as the Student Loan Marketing Association with the nickname, «Sallie Mae,» it started off as a government - sponsored enterprise designed to support the government's student loan pStudent Loan Marketing Association with the nickname, «Sallie Mae,» it started off as a government - sponsored enterprise designed to support the government's student loan pstudent loan program.

The NRB found ample evidence supporting the claims that some seminaries in the 1960s through the early 1980s were «pink palaces» or powerfully influenced by «lavender mafias,» including sleeping around by both students and faculty.

While the authors report having «found little evidence that the strong tendencies toward religious freedom and religious pluralism led to any lack of religious vitality» in the campuses they visited, their account suggests otherwise: faculty and administrators are afraid to offend students by supporting religious «rules and regulations» or by teaching Christian doctrine.

Indeed, a major incentive to archaeological discovery lay precisely in the desire of students of the Bible to find in the records of this ancient culture some support for their faith in the Bible.

Kernan was a graduate student in 1951 when William F. Buckley, Jr.'s God and Man at Yale created a sensation by (in Kernan's words) arguing «provocatively and brilliantly that the administration and faculty of Yale, despite Yale's having been founded on religion and being still supported by free enterprise, were systematically teaching atheism and socialism in the classroom.»

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

A private, non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.

Let me be clear that I think the Orfalea Foundation (founded by Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinkos) is to be commended for supporting improved school food, and kudos to Carpinteria for getting that outside funding for its students.

Unfortunately, researchers have found that the more in need of support a student is, the less supportive they find their teacher to be.

When I teach students in the relatively new discipline of infant mental health, which brings together researchers at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the essay «The Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.

She has had a long and rewarding career in independent schools and finds her work with organizations supporting education, students, parents, community and Board work to be continually inspiring.

Shauvon Simmons - Wright, the alliance's N.C. relationship manager, who helps support students» efforts, said she first made contact with school districts to find out which schools had a need for resources based on the socio - economic status of students.

I research and educated myself on natural birth, and found myself a student midwife to help support me.

It's not just effort, but strategy... so support the student in finding another strategy.

In this section, you'll find a number of resources designed to support the health and wellness of your students and that help you create healthy classrooms and schools.

Having made an apparently copper - bottomed campaign pledge to appeal to the student vote, many LibDem MPs have found out the hard way that headline - grabbing promises in the heat of an election campaign can come back to bite you hard if they are impossible to credibly support in office.

A Siena College poll released this morning found there was broad support for most of Cuomo's major agenda in the new year, including an extension of the state's surcharge on millions, reduced tuition costs for SUNY students whose families earn $ 125,000 a year and less and a $ 2 billion clean water infrastructure fund.

The bills will also continue a statewide conversation to prevent sexual assault and will ultimately allow students to find safety and support to heal, said Randi Bregman, executive director of Vera House.

«As a larger issue we want to make sure that students are most importantly talking about it and know about, and understand that the issue is not something that doesn't happen at Skidmore, and secondly we want to show that this is a community that support survivors and doesn't support the readmission of people who have been found responsible.»

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

«These additional funds will certainly aid that mission, and we look forward to finding more ways to work with the County to further support our students.»

But the poll also found overwhelming support for many of Bloomberg's latest initiatives, including his proposals to make it easier to fire bad apples while offering a $ 20,000 bump in salary for the best teachers and a $ 25,000 bonus to help educators pay off student loans.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

A new poll finds Standardized Tests have support among parents as a useful way to track student progress and school quality.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

I also found that his support made it very easy to tell other committee advisers and students of my interests.

They wrote op - eds; founded Pro-Test for Science, an organization of students and faculty that encourages support for research that uses animals; and initiated a dialogue with peaceful animal rights advocates.

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

He did not offer any support as a graduate student adviser, so I set out to find a new mentor.

In other 1995 results, Campbell and his colleagues found that almost half of life - sciences faculty members in the United States received gifts from industry, including biomaterials, equipment, discretionary funds, and student support.

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

So, there are no official guidelines concerning a situation where, for example, a student finds it difficult to get on with one of his or her supervisors, or the main supervisor does not have the time or interest to properly support and follow the student's progress.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

I've found out about university offices such as the Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention office and the Graduate Student Grants and Services office that offer support to all graduate students and put out information that I can use to find funds to finance my education from outside the department.

Last year, a separate group found that holding a heavy clipboard makes us perceive social - justice issues as more important: In a theoretical scenario, volunteers holding a heavy clipboard were more likely to support a student grievance with a university committee than were those holding a light clipboard.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

Above all I have simply found it satisfying and enjoyable to see how, as an individual student, I can support other people?s endeavours and thereby help make things a little bit better.

Williams interviewed for a job at Spelman, and during his interview with Provost Sharon Washington, he realized he had found the right institution when Washington supported his desire to purchase Sony AIBO robots and use them to teach object - oriented programming to Spelman's students.

The only support they found was sympathy from French students in other groups.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»