Watching first year students crying who had seen it happening angered me but, over the course of the day my emotions changed.
Many first year students and internationals feel out of place.
Park and Zupan said first-year students are expressing more interest in fields beyond finance.
All the first-year students at the Airship Academy had been shipped out on two-week training tours to study navigation.
Next fall, the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business will provide a required course to teach first-year students how to view business issues in a global context.
At Wharton, women accounted for 40 percent of first-year enrollment, at Stanford University, women made up 39 percent of the entering business school class and at Harvard women accounted for 36 percent of first-year students.
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After all, it was an unusual assignment, especially because 16 first-year MBA students would do much of the fieldwork.
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In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.
After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.
The change was most marked for part-time students starting the first year of postgraduate courses, where some 14% fewer students enrolled in 2011-12 than the year before.
Mr. Holmes entered the program in June 2011 and was one of six first-year neuroscience doctoral students.
His education agenda includes a plan to make college affordable for more Americans by paying first-year tuition for students who work part time.
Andrew had recently been accepted to The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, making this the first year YES will enroll students at boarding schools.
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Obama's budget proposal for next fiscal year would hold down rates for subsidized loans to about 3% in the first year, with other students paying about 5%.
The school said it would open with a full first year of more than 50 students and there had been more than 180 expressions of interest in those places.
In fact, an impressive 94 percent of the first Freshmen Academy students graduated this year.
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For example, in his first year, he tried to teach students about buoyancy by floating a Lego man on a boat down a stream.
However the number of full-time postgraduate students starting their first year remained static at 207, 665, resulting in an overall fall in first-year postgraduates of 5%.
For the first time, from next year if students have the necessary qualifications for a university place, the state authorities are promising to provide a scholarship to all those who are eligible.
Extra first year work will not necessarily damage students' eventual A-level grades, she argues - on the basis that under the old system, those who had dropped from studying three subjects to two had not necessarily got better results.
In August the first 21 Russian students will start taking courses (they will spend their first year studying abroad).
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At Piedmont High School in the Oakland Hills, there are 14 students in this first-year Mandarin class, a mixture of Asian, white, African-American and Indian.
In Chad, first year classes number an average of 85 students.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
Yet Carleton's target of a first-year enrolment of 4, 800 students by 2000 is still in doubt, in part because higher fees and fewer government scholarships have cut the number of foreign students (as indeed they have across Canada, from 38, 000 to 32, 000 in four years).
Our first year in Houston, two-thirds of students came to KIPP with a "bilingual" label.
Figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) also indicate a fall of 2% to 216, 000 in the overall number of students enrolling for full time first year courses.
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During the first week after the intervention in freshman year, students were asked each day about the good and bad events that happened to them and how they felt they belonged at that time.
In one study involving African-American and white college freshmen in a predominantly white university, the intervention, delivered in the first year of college, changed the trajectory of minority students' achievement by steadily improving their grades all the way through senior year.
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