The phrase "arm students with" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of equipping students with knowledge, skills, or resources necessary for their success.
Example: "The program aims to arm students with the critical thinking skills they need to excel in their future careers."
Alternatives: "equip students with" or "provide students with".
It's nearly impossible anymore for colleges to arm students with the vocational hard skills they'll need to last more than a few years in almost any job after graduation.
We must arm students with well-defined academic and career paths and ensure that they are truly college- and/or work force-ready, not simply with diploma in hand.
The "crib notes" style information provided in this chapter does not replace more complete statistical, analytical, and geospatial coursework, but will arm students with a better understanding of how data can be collected, analyzed, interpreted, and applied to help solve complex environmental problems.
In 2011, as head of the Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, he worked with the Vista, Calif.-based Christian Anti-Defamation Commission on a campaign to "arm" students with the "truth about Islam and Muhammad" — mainly by leafleting high schools with literature depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a sex-crazed pedophile.
Reinhard noted that incorporating the histories often absent from the traditional, "grand narratives" can arm students with the skills and knowledge needed to make sense of their world, especially one fraught with long-festering issues such as African American history, LGBT rights and immigration reform.
The point of these courses is to arm students with the right skills before they actually need them, says Schütte. "Right now, none of them manage budgets or labs.
"We start with Duncan's book because it arms students with the analytical tools to critically assess the validity of common-sense explanations for human behaviors," Macy said.
The class arms students with professional development skills and creates a close-knit community, helping them better navigate Berkeley's large campus.
Today there is a lot of noise interfering with that signal and employers question whether a traditional undergraduate education arms students with the soft skills needed in the workplace problem solving, critical thinking, communications, and working in teams.
To help deal with that pressure, some high school counselors, especially at private schools, and independent consultants are arming students with strategies for managing the process's stress points — including the inevitable questions.
Without arming students with a technical skillset, HBS is at risk of evolving into a business school for future managers, rather than one for future leaders.
