Sentences with phrase «students graduated at»

Specifically, in 2012, white students graduated at a rate 26.5 percentage points higher than students of color.

Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students.

Follow up showed visited students graduated at high rates at one pilot site and transitional visits positively impacted student performance across sites.

(We don't know what the long - term effects of vouchers are, though a study of DC found voucher students graduated at higher rates.)

In 2015, Harmony Public Schools black, Latino and low - income students graduated at higher percentages than the state average.

One confusing but important finding is that that simply closing the racial achievement gap at each individual college would not be enough to ensure that black and white students graduate at the same rate overall.

When student supports are developed and coherent in a Linked Learning pathway, data has shown that students graduate at higher rates and are more likely to enroll in college compared to their counterparts in pathways that haven't established a strong system of student supports.

Earlier this year, America's Promise Alliance, founded by former Gen. Colin Powell to improve the lives of young people, released a report showing that low - income students graduate at much lower rates than the typical student.

Charter school students graduate at higher rates and benefit from other social factors as well.

Proponents often assert that voucher students graduate at higher rates than public school students.

* The old writeoff times were age based while the new ones are duration based but for a student graduating at the normal age the old times were much longer.

Furthermore, I attended the 2015 Convocation at Osgoode, the largest law school in Canada, because LLM students graduate at the same time as the JD students.

Not exact matches

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

As graduate student at the University of British Columbia, Tehrani knew he wanted to do something different.

Her 11 - month tenure as the co-founder of Asteria Propulsion, a company started from her work on micro-rocket engines as a graduate student at Duke, had been humbling.

At Harvey Mudd College, the Claremont, California - based institution where Klawe became president in 2006, a full half of students who graduate with degrees in computer science, engineering, and physics are women.

If you want to practice civil law, you need to study in Quebec (for instance, McGill law students graduate with a degree in each system), or at the University of Ottawa.

He operates at the level of a really well - trained graduate student — if not better.»

Make sure an introduction includes the statement «I'm a student at...» This especially works well when networking with graduates of your own school.

Tony Laing, senior graduate student services coordinator at the New School in New York City, says he has had the most success placing qualified interns at companies he has the most experience with.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

He is also currently a part - time graduate student in Business and Economic Reporting at New York University.

She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

Between fellow students, professors, staff, and colleagues you'll meet at professional conferences, graduate business programs are often schmoozing hotbeds.

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new people and attend social events.

Now 35, Karim launched a business called Youniversity Ventures in 2008 aimed at helping students and graduates develop business ideas with early PayPal investors Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabols.

A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.

For students who graduate, they have almost a job secured at the end of the line, either with us or with other companies.»

At Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobAt Bentley University, this summer marks the school's first Job Boot Camp for graduates, a four - day intensive workshop held a few weeks after graduation aimed at making sure students land jobat making sure students land jobs.

About 95 % of Stanford's Graduate School of Business's 809 students opt to take at least one entrepreneurship class.

About 95 % of Stanford's Graduate School of Business's 809 students opt to take at least one entrepreneurship class — whether it's Startup Garage, Product Launch, or Formation of New Ventures.

At Money magazine, however, reporter Kara Brandeisky found a case study: a 22 - year - old recent college graduate who paid off $ 23,374.84 in student loans — his entire debt — in 10 months.

At biotech start - ups based on cutting - edge technologies, it is often the case that graduate students are among the most knowledgeable people available.

So before I graduate, I'd like to think through these ideas with my fellow students and hopefully meet some business partners to put at least one idea into practice.»

University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

«He tended to wheel around the low dais at the front of the room while he delivered his pre-recorded lecture and a graduate student wrote equations on the blackboard,» said Colless.

At Student Maid, it's two and a half years (mostly because students graduate and move on).

Dave Valliere, founding director of the Entrepreneurship Research Institute at Ryerson University, even recommends that students put off founding a company after they graduate.

Professor Matthew Colless, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, had Hawking as a lecturer on gravitational physics and black holes.

Professor Peter Tuthill, at the School of Physics, Sydney University, had his own close own encounter with Stephen Hawking as a Australian graduate student studying in Cambridge.

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

Angela grew fascinated by this «extra something» in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at UPenn.

His company started life hosting parties for recent graduates of prestigious universities (hence «Social»)-- and offering to help them repay their student loans at lower rates («Finance»).

Dr. Ryan J. Orr is executive director at Stanford University's Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects and teaches classes on Global Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment to law, business, and engineering graduate students.

It took an estimated 20 minutes to complete, but for Shin, a graduate student at Yonsei University who has been quadriplegic since birth, it was a step toward greater independence.

Each semester I ask my students at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland to construct policy to solve this problem.

The couple: Galina Datskovsky, 29, and Mark Moerdler, 34, started dating when they were computer - science graduate students at New York City's Columbia University.