Sentences with phrase «when few graduates»

Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were not required to accept children with physical, mental, and emotional handicaps; when there were relatively few students who did not speak or read English; and when few graduated from high school and went to college.

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The ring's design has not changed since the 1940s and its magic was evident in Calgary just a few months ago when Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister and graduate of the class of» 59, spoke at a fundraising dinner.

In fact, even a few years ago when I taught graduate - level economics (a whole other post), I don't remember it being in the curriculum, or even being asked about the topic.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

$ 29.95 I remember a lecture a few years back, heard when I was in graduate school, that provided one of those rare flashes that illumine an entire universe.

I am trying to luxuriate in my last few weeks here at the University of Chicago; I get extremely choked up when I think about graduating.

It reminds me of when I graduated in 1980 with an MBA and the few women in the program were cautioned not to have pictures of their children on their desk at the risk of people assuming we didn't take our careers seriously.

In a few years, when they come to graduate, they will be looking out on an altogether more inspiring sight.

General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018 Source: Kwabena Danso - dapaah Osei Assibey Antwi, Kumasi Mayor The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated amount of five thousand Ghana Cedis to Jackson Foundation, a philanthropist organization to help increase the number of professional teachers in the country The donation was made on behalf of the Assembly when students from Jackson Educational (JEC) under the Foundation, graduated as trained teachers to assist few in the system.

When a graduate student comes to IMCB, they are given the choice of a few labs that they can join.

It was mid-July 2004 when Christa Wheeler (pictured left) walked «with anticipation and a few butterflies» through the doors of the Cleveland, Ohio, MetroHealth Medical Center to begin her career as a Case Western Reserve University graduate student in biomedical engineering.

But aging - related jobs were few when she graduated in 1987, so she took a 2 - year research assistant position in the former Department of Medical Psychology at the University of Utrecht.

When faced by these challenges, graduate students can whine and complain, or they can take matters into their own hands, as a group of students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) did a few years ago by creating the Industry Roundtable (IR).

However, there are very few hard data available on what happens to people after they leave their postdoc and how these actual outcomes relate to their initial goals when they entered graduate school.

(A graduate student could probably still get a doctorate from CMU for designing a robot to do something as simple as climbing stairs without tripping or stacking plates and cutlery in a dishwasher, an assignment that might be evaluated by how few crystal goblets were broken when loading the machine.)

A few years ago at a bar in Reno, graduate student John Zablocki was talking about his research on the rediscovery of lost species — those presumed to have gone extinct only to turn up again alive and well — when a stranger chimed in.

The archive remained untouched until Rowdy Boeyink, a graduate student at Utrecht University, asked to see it and was shocked when a few letters written by the physicist Niels Bohr fell out of a magazine.

The perpetrators are more prone to commit domestic violence when forced to move into a group with few fertile females, said first author Matthew Zipple, a graduate student in professor Susan Albert's lab at Duke University.

That all changed when he started graduate school at Cambridge in 1962 and subsequently learned that he had only a few years to live.

OPT status can also be used by graduate students still working on their dissertation research when they're no longer taking classes or when they are enrolled for fewer than nine credit - hours per semester.

When she was applying for graduate programs, she was an active undergraduate researcher but had mediocre GRE scores and a 3.5 GPA, with a few Cs in her science classes.

Laura Weingartner, a graduate researcher in evolutionary ecology at Indiana University, agreed: «Few universities (specifically the faculty advisors) know how to train students for anything other than academia, which leaves many students hopeless when, inevitably, there are no jobs in academia for them.»

Fast forward to 2014: That's when the first class of medical students graduated from Houston, TX - based Baylor College of Medicine, with a concentration in a genetics track curriculum that Dr. Potocki co-founded with Shweta Dhar, M.D., just a few years ago.

When I first graduated from college, a few years before I founded my company, Live More Weigh Less, I was living in NYC with my boyfriend in a 300...

He's in graduate school, and neither of us really had the income to buy a whole lot when we moved in together in September, so we've been mixing a few new to us craigslist finds with his college pieces and making do.

A few years into adulthood after graduating Barden University, Beca (Anna Kendrick) quits her music producing job when the talent she's working with leaves a lot to be desired.

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Warren Professor and Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education added: «In a media saturated environment, there are very few stand - outs when it comes to programming that can benefit young children in a positive way.

And when we see less than half the kids are graduating without a waiver (and) the district is almost doubled the number of waivers issued in the last few years, less than half the kids are proficient on the state standardized exams... we need to do much better than we are doing.

At a time when few students went on to college, and most went to work after graduating, it made sense to offer three tracks: college bound, general, and vocational.

But when you look at overall outcomes for charter schools, they're graduating far fewer students,» Hinojosa said.

There are few high - level or Advanced Placement courses at CHAH — pre-calculus is the highest math — and many graduates need remedial help when entering college.

He admitted, though, that the situation is more challenging now, when only 55 percent of the people who attend college graduate in six years or fewer and only 25 percent of community college students graduate.

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

When I first graduated from college, I lived in New Orleans for a few years and I got very into cooking — mostly gourmet, very complicated, almost ritualistic recipes.

I have a few friends who did this when they graduated from college.

A recent study found that very few college students factor in cost when deciding where to attend school.College costs are skyrocketing, leaving more students graduating with a mountain of debt.

At the completion of this MPOWER Financing Review, we have concluded that it is a good option for international students who need to borrow money for college and have few options, but the high interest rates they charge and the need to start making payments immediately could cause some borrowers to struggle financially while in college and could make it harder for them to pay off their debt when they graduate.

When I first graduated (and that was a few years ago), we vaccinated with everything, every year.

When I first began veterinary school the thought for my future in veterinary medicine is that I would graduate, practice for a few years as a small animal practitioner and then buy the practice.

Bradford was in his mid-30s when he graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and a few years later got his big break when he was invited to participate in «Freestyle,» a 2001 group show at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

How can art schools defend their mission when so few of the graduates become artists?

If you read what I said carefully (and you may not have — eyes tend to glaze over when one reviews a year or so of graduate quantum theory applied to electronics in a few paragraphs, even though I left out perturbation theory, Feynman diagrams, and ever so much more: — RRB - you will note that I cheated — I run in a semi-empirical method.

After graduating from the Institute for Culinary Education, he landed a job running Ignazio's Pizza in DUMBO for a few years, but when his children came along, he wanted a career that would let him be more flexible.

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

When Douglas J. Sylvester, dean of the law school at Arizona State University, was visiting the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota a couple of years ago he mentioned the shifting job market for his students — far fewer offers and a new demand for graduates already able to draft documents and interact with clients.

The big - law - firm analog to the U.S. News law school rankings had arrived a few years earlier when the American Lawyer, a publication that Yale Law School graduate Steven Brill founded, put out its first - ever list of the nation's fifty largest law firms, the Am Law 50.

At 86, Yale sent fewer graduates into teaching jobs than did Harvard Law School with 101, but when considered in light of Yale's typical class size of 200 versus Harvard's of 550, Yale earned a per capita score of.43, much higher than second - place Harvard's.18.

I'm off on my own, doing exactly what these senior members did when they graduated a few decades ago.

A graduate of the Techstars New York accelerator a few years ago, when I first saw the company they were focused on providing actionable intelligence and monitoring services to police departments, but pivoted into a communications platform when the company saw a bigger opportunity to help departments there.

Here are a few ways, from one troubled grad to another, to conquer those thoughts and fears when searching for graduate employment...