Sentences with phrase «third generation college»

Duta is the youngest of three and a third generation college graduate.

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When Jesse Laflamme returned home from college in 2000, his family's third - generation egg farm, Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs, was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

It's the sound of the next generation: in a study published in the Journal of Voice, more than two - thirds of female college students spoke with vocal fry.

Biophysicist Hyungsik Lim at Hunter College, City University of New York, uses third harmonic generation (THG) microscopy to image myelin — the «insulation» around nerve «wires» — in live cultures and tissues without adding any labels.

Dr. Jeffrey S. McCombs, speaker, educator, author and leading expert on Candida infection and treatment, is a third - generation graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic.

King Charles I School Birmingham City Ladies FC defender, Chelsea Weston, officially opened a refurbished third ‑ generation artificial grass pitch at King Charles I School, a secondary school and sixth form college in Kidderminster.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

Only 17 percent of American teachers are non-white, but in 2014, 22 percent of TFA's corps is black, 13 percent are Latino, and a third identify as first - generation college students.

Third, more support for minorities and first generation college students is needed in high school and college.

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The college campus is increasingly a focal point for shaping social norms, largely a result of rising college attendance; only five percent of the generation that came of age in the 1930s were college graduates, as opposed to roughly a third of millennials.

Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation.

At least two - thirds of the students for both programs must be low - income, have a high risk of academic failure, and be potential first - generation college students.

Over two - thirds of CAC advisers were either low - income or first - generation themselves when they applied to college (Hurd, 2016).

Dr. Howell, a third generation Hokie, received her BS in Biological Sciences from Virginia Tech followed by her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Virginia - Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2012.

Dr. Henrikson is a third generation veterinarian from Emporia and 1998 graduate of the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine.