Sentences with phrase «undergraduate education»

The school is focused on providing an incredible undergraduate education in a tightly - knit community, and I believe that it will continue to do so.

Lecture halls of hundreds of students are as much a feature of undergraduate education as an achievement gap between different races and socioeconomic backgrounds (PDF, 1.2 MB).

He has revamped undergraduate education programs and added a new public outreach venture, a nonprofit science documentary company.

Among undergraduate education majors, some 67 percent borrowed federal student loans — 5 percentage points more than the overall population of bachelor's degree recipients (see Figure 2).

Known for small classes and a focus on undergraduate education, most such colleges also require — from their younger, newer faculty members, at least — substantial research activity.

And it will uphold a 150 + year tradition of free undergraduate education.

While there he also studied educational theory and practice as a part of his general undergraduate education.

It describes schools that that take a holistic approach to admissions decisions, that consistently excel in providing undergraduate education, and that have a truly national reputation.

With such an intensive undergraduate education, graduate - level training was only research — no coursework — and could be completed in 3 years.

A type of college that seeks to emphasize undergraduate education and to provide students with courses covering a wide range of topics.

There is a reason that it takes ~ 10 years of graduate and undergraduate education in a specific field before one is usually considered capable of contributing to that field.

Here we examine student aid, costs of undergraduate education, and enrollment over time.

The test scores of students seeking to enter graduate education programs are similarly low and, on average, undergraduate education majors score even lower than the graduate education applicant pool as a whole.

Is the school's focus primarily on undergraduate education, or does it put a lot of resources into and emphasis on research and graduate programs?

This will give you a general undergraduate education, and you can major in psychology or another related field.

In a separate phone interview, Sam Vernon, a 2009 graduate of Cooper's School of Art who is not among the occupiers, also expressed the need for undergraduate education at Cooper to remain free.

About 15.7 % of educators leave the field every year, while around 40 % of those with undergraduate education degrees never even enter the classroom.

The investigators noted a loss of URM trainees during undergraduate education.

She has enjoyed going back to her alma mater, the University of Central Missouri to teach undergraduate education students.

Member of the initial Working Group for the NSF - funded project, Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education.

This is the result of the shortcomings of the Italian undergraduate education system: 88 % of students take longer than the scheduled 4 or 5 years to achieve a laurea (on average they need 2 or 3 more years), and over 60 % of freshmen drop out (1998 figures).

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Funding Undergraduate Education SHPE was founded in Los Angeles by a group of Hispanic engineers who wanted to serve as role models for the Latino community.

That's why it's so disturbing that in 2010, the SAT scores of students intending to pursue undergraduate education degrees ranked 25th out of 29 majors generally associated with four - year degree programs.

The debate around how to finance undergraduate education at English universities has been reignited by a new report from the business, innovation and skills select committee questioning the sustainability of the current student finance system.

The four largest teaching schools in Colorado to offer undergraduate education programs are the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado Christian University, and Regis University.

Most recently, I served as a Teacher on Special Assignment for Winona (MN) State University teaching undergraduate education courses, before returning to my home district as a 7th grade Social Studies teacher.

While students who graduate from all - women colleges may later be exposed to gender biases, a rigorous undergraduate education unencumbered by common cultural stereotypes fosters lasting confidence.

Freeman and his co-authors based their findings on 225 studies of undergraduate education across all of the «STEM» areas: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Biology faculty members like Cullis are «far and away the most likely to involve undergraduates in their research,» said Lorelle L. Espinosa, a senior analyst with Abt Associates who spoke at a recent conference on improving biology undergraduate education.

She has taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and served as the Assistant Director of the Reinvention Center, a national center focused on enhancing undergraduate education at research universities.

A student in an undergraduate teacher preparation class at California State University - Northridge presents a reading lesson to the class.The school's undergraduate education classes were rated highly in several categories, but the program overall received a low score.

Yangon and Mandalay Universities were allowed to resume undergraduate education, which had been banned in the wake of student protests in the 1980s.

Wellesley, the premier women's college established in the 19th century to provide women with a liberal arts undergraduate education on par with the then all - male Ivy League schools, recently recommitted to advancing its tradition of graduating such STEM leaders, by raising $ 96.5 million of a planned $ 215 million new state - of - the - art science center through the issue of municipals bonds, underwritten by Morgan Stanley.

A 2001 Nobelist for creating a new form of matter known as a Bose - Einstein condensate, Wieman has since become a leader in the effort to reform U.S. undergraduate education.

As a result, we now have a useful, readable constitution for postmodern undergraduate education in America.

It concludes: «There is nothing in the available data that indicates that the introduction of variable fees in England has yet had any lasting impact on the level or pattern of demand for full - time undergraduate education.»

I think 2 years of undergraduate education suffices in California.

More than 250 current math and science teachers will be chosen from the Mid-Hudson, North Country, central New York and western New York regions to participate in the program, where they'll mentor undergraduate education students and early career teachers.

Also, although undergraduate education in Hungary is comparable to Western countries, when it came to graduate education, «I had to start from scratch and learn loads of things I was not aware of, in terms of experimental design, writing skills, new techniques, computational skills,» Pàl says.

In 1998, Lubchenco's appeal was quickly followed by the release of the Boyer Commission's «Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities» report that delivered a stark assessment of the nation's research institutions and more broadly higher education.

Instead, students need to learn and practice a range of safety skills, according to guidelines for undergraduate education issued last year by the American Chemical Society (ACS).

His curriculum vitae shows a solid undergraduate education and a Ph.D. from a top department.

Americans» views of higher education in STEM are more favorable by comparison, but there, too, fewer than half consider undergraduate education (35 %) or graduate education (38 %) in STEM fields as at least above average compared with other developed nations.

One of the members of the U.S. Education Department's task force on undergraduate education warned recently that colleges and universities must take a long - range view of faculty development because they will have to hire as many as 500,000 new faculty members in the next 25 years.