Today, older college students stand out like a streaker on campus, but future changemaker educational models will find ways to tap into and connect the rich, real-world experiences of encore learners with the creativity and spirit of younger learners.
We are trying to create opportunities where students can stand on their own and create employment.
And the students would stand up and cheer after -- when the Haitian flag went by, or the Colombian flag went by.
"To be honest, being in the one-year program makes it very challenging, " she says, adding that the lack of summer internships and the short timeline make it tough for students to stand out to employers.
Poor students of whatever race stand a much lower chance of getting into selective schools, as I wrote in May.
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On Wednesday, March 24th, Secretary Duncan will meet with students and parents that stand to benefit from the American Opportunity Credit for college expenses at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA. Secretary Chu will visit Seaway Manufacturing Corporation, a manufacturer of energy efficient home improvement products that qualify for the Recovery Act tax credits, in Erie, PA on Friday, March 26th.
John Edwards offered an opportunity to see where the vice presidential candidates stand, most students either didn't notice, or didn't care.
The students are enthusiastic and this should stand them in better stead.
Schaefer said electronics and appliance stores stand to benefit as students replace smart phones and calculators, and as more schools allow or even encourage students to bring laptop computers to the classroom.
At most schools, teachers stand in front of their students and tell them that learning has no boundaries, yet there are four walls around their classroom.
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He is now 15 years old and attends a New York City public high school where two armed police officers stand guard at the entrance and students need to go through a metal detector every day as they enter the building.
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FIT's Ms. Payton-Jones instructs students not to chew gum on the job or stand with their arms crossed because it makes them seem unapproachable.
It is a fundamental precept of medicine -- one I hammer home with undergraduates (future patients) and medical students (future doctors): Patients with severe abnormalities stand to gain more from intervention than patients with mild ones.
But, rather than getting speakers to stand behind a lectern and address hundred of students at one time, they use a pre selected groups of 12 students as an Executive Committee to attend intimate workshops with them.
Everywhere I've gone, every stop I've made, there are people like this, men and women who have faced misfortune, but who stand ready to build a better future: students ready to learn, workers eager to work, scientists on the brink of discovery, entrepreneurs seeking the chance to open a small business.
Stand-alone ethics courses are a start, but they "compartmentalize" the issue for students, as if ethical questions aren't applicable to all business disciplines, says David Ikenberry, dean of University of Colorado's Leeds School.
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John Walda, the group's president, said the financial squeeze from fewer students is forcing such colleges to find ways to boost revenue, control costs and seek a way to stand out from the crowd.
National Union of Students President Ciarnan Helferty said the link-up with the SDLP was based purely on the party's stand on tuition fees.
He was prepared to stand up to the teaching unions - which sometimes heckled his speeches - and his policy of charging university students for tuition fees was not popular.
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