Sentences with phrase «white student at the college»

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That is why the loudest yelps about white privilege come from pale - skinned students at the most expensive liberal arts colleges.

Sit in the stands of Alfond Arena at Maine's Colby College long enough, and her presence simply reveals itself, as it did to the Colby student who walked in five minutes after the start of the White Mules» game against Northeastern on Feb. 18.

It's time for the Senate and the White House to do its job,» House Speaker John Boehner said at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by other House GOP leaders and college - age students.

Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced that the Westchester County Health Department will give free flu shots to college students and residents at two locations next month in Valhalla and White Plains.

Police say Justin Tavarez, who's a student at Skidmore College in upstate New York, took offense when he saw a white man dining with a black man and smashed a plate over the white man's head.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — For the fifth consecutive year, tuition for nearly 13,000 students at Westchester Community College (WCC) will not increase under a proposed budget that was submitted by County Executive Robert P.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced that the Westchester County Health Department will give free flu shots to college students and residents at two locations next month in Valhalla and White PlWHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced that the Westchester County Health Department will give free flu shots to college students and residents at two locations next month in Valhalla and White PlWhite Plains.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — More than 250 tech - savvy students from 36 high schools and colleges across the New York - metropolitan region today joined together to kick off the second annual #WestchesterSmart Mobile App Development Bowl at the Westchester County Center in White PlWHITE PLAINS, NY — More than 250 tech - savvy students from 36 high schools and colleges across the New York - metropolitan region today joined together to kick off the second annual #WestchesterSmart Mobile App Development Bowl at the Westchester County Center in White PlWhite Plains.

From 2008 to 2015, per - student funding from the state dropped 17 percent at CUNY senior colleges and 5 percent at community colleges when adjusted for inflation, according to the white paper.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at someCollege found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at somecollege at some point.

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At the age of 20, when most college sophomores are still picking their majors, Harvard student Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar proved that white dwarf stars would explode after reaching a mass 1.4 times that of our sun.

«My experience as a summer research fellow at the MDI Biological Laboratory has given me confidence that research is the right choice for me,» says Samantha White, 31, a student at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland who plans to pursue a career in biomedical research.

Hey I am a 5» 10» white college student at Elmhurst college.

His feature debut, «Dear White People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns familiar stereotypes on their heads as it follows an eclectic group of African American students navigating campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white colWhite People,» is a pointed satire about race relations in the age of Obama that turns familiar stereotypes on their heads as it follows an eclectic group of African American students navigating campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white colwhite college.

Irony and satire roam unchecked in film that follows four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular «African American'themed party thrown by white students.

Adapted from the 2014 film of the same name, this college - based comedy follows a group of students of colour at a predominantly white school, who attempt to fight the social injustice that dominates their campus.

Four different black students are followed as a controversial event on an Ivy League campus creates issues with the students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

• Debt and default among black or African - American college students is at crisis levels, and even a bachelor's degree is no guarantee of security: black BA graduates default at five times the rate of white BA graduates (21 versus 4 percent), and are more likely to default than white dropouts.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

Teachers expect 58 percent of white high school students, but just 37 percent of black high school students, to obtain at least a four - year college degree.

A White House report, Counseling and College Completion: The Road Ahead, summarized ideas and solutions that arose at the event, including ways to improve training and professional development for school counselors; scalable, data - driven innovations; and strategies for expanding the reach of school counselors so they can serve all students.

At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic studentAt the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic studentat graduating Hispanic students.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

Thomas, Kim, and White are all former master's students at HGSE who are now doctoral students — at Northwestern, Columbia, and Boston College, respectively.

It's a place where a student can go from being functionally illiterate to attending college and introducing Michelle Obama at the White House.

Just 56 percent of Hispanic college students enroll at four - year institutions compared to 72 percent of non-Hispanic white students.

Yet disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than do higher - income and white students.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

For this reason, we also examine two U.S. subgroups conventionally thought to have better preparation for school — white students and students from families where at least one parent is reported to have received a college degree — and compare the percentages of high - achieving students among them to the (total) populations abroad.

Students of color even graduate from college at lower rates than their white peers.

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.

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.

On the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) English Language Arts assessment, Learning Community's Latino students outperformed the state's white students by 7 percentage points and reached proficiency at two - and - a-half times the rate of their Latino peers statewide.

College attainment rates for young adults increased from slightly more than 40 percent to nearly 48 percent between 2007 and 2017, but significant gaps between white and minority students put the United States at only 10th in the world in the share of young adults who have finished cCollege attainment rates for young adults increased from slightly more than 40 percent to nearly 48 percent between 2007 and 2017, but significant gaps between white and minority students put the United States at only 10th in the world in the share of young adults who have finished collegecollege.

«We have raised academic expectations in Louisiana in order to prepare more students for success in college and the workplace, and it is encouraging to see our students and educators embracing these expectations and achieving at levels competitive with other states,» said State Superintendent John White.

July 20, 2015 — Students from The Opportunity Network will join First Lady Michelle Obama and leaders in college access and success to teach career skills to college - bound high school graduates at a Beating the Odds Summit at the White House on Thursday, July 23rd.

Inside Higher Ed reported Oct. 31, 2013 that the White House and Department of Education will be hosting a «datapalooza» in the Spring of 2014 that will «look at better ways to package and provide access to existing federal data on colleges and students, such as the government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, known as -LSB-...]

Two other key points from the Brookings analysis: 1) for - profit schools remain the primary driver of high student loan defaults, and 2) black college graduates default at five times the rate of white college graduates, due to persistent unemployment, higher use of for - profit colleges and lower parental income and assets.

In recognition of Charlotte Bacon and her dream of becoming a veterinarian, the Bacons were presented with a letter admitting Charlotte as an honorary student at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, and with the special white lab coat every incoming student receives at a ceremony at the start of each academic year, this one embroidered with Charlotte's name.

Students in their third year of professional education at the College of Veterinary Medicine will receive their White Coat in a ceremony held on Saturday, Jan. 28, on the CVM campus.

Rauschenberg reported that Cy Twombly (1928 — 2011) helped paint some of them, most likely during the 1952 summer session at Black Mountain College, where both artists were students.11 It is entirely plausible that the White Paintings in John Cage's Theater Piece # 112 at Black Mountain that summer — the series» first public appearance — were second iterations of the fall 1951 paintings.

During the first two years of the 50's, spending his academic years at the Art Students League in New York and summers at the Black Mountain College his ambition has increased so much that provide him a prestigious solo show at the betty Parsons Gallery in New York where he showed his series of White Paintings (1953).

VanDerBeek's association with Rauschenberg dated to their overlapping student days at Black Mountain College in Asheville, N.C. Theater Piece No. 1, a 1952 event there simultaneously combined poetry readings atop ladders by John Cage, M.C. Richards and Charles Olson; Rauschenberg's pre-minimalist White Paintings hanging from the ceiling while he played scratched records; a piano composition by composer David Tudor; and a spare dance performance by Merce Cunningham.

Students speak with artists Alonzo Davis, Maren Hassinger, and Ian White (at right) at the Williams College Museum of Art

Mick Womersley, who teaches human ecology at Unity College, has blogged on earlier White House efforts to cut energy waste and weighed in with a Dot Earth comment laying out his argument for a big solar deployment push and expressing pride in his students» initiative.

Trained students to perform field - oriented tasks utilizing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for environmental water testing program with New York State College at White Plains.

Participants were 434 college students (52.1 % female, 38.7 % European American / White, 32.5 % African American / Black, 28.8 % Latino American / Hispanic; M = 18.0 [SD = 0.4] years old fall of first year) who completed surveys at four semesters.