Sentence examples for segment of the student from inspiring English sources

"There's a segment of the student population who felt very strongly about it," said Josh Taylor, an NYU spokesman.

"Social studies will alienate a large segment of the student body, including its own concentrators, if it does not reverse its decision," Mr. Rashid said.

"In many ways it is an excellent initiative," says Joel Duff, Ontario chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students, "and for the first time in Canada, a segment of the student population is going have a guaranteed minimum standard in terms of accessibility".

The proposed federal ratings system also would eliminate an entire segment of the student population.

This cannot be the system we have designed…where a certain segment of the student population cannot be successful.

At Horace Mann high school in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body.

In Lower Manhattan, for example, Buddhists make up a large segment of the students in two schools, Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral School and Transfiguration School.

Concerns have been raised over attempts to "no platform" speakers with views deemed unacceptable to segments of the student body, as well as attempts to create safe spaces within universities where criticism is discouraged.

But openly and unrepentantly calling for low standards and implying that whole segments of the student population are not college material is indefensible.

In the for-profits' scenario, any change in policy that risks slowing enrollment growth at their colleges also risks eliminating the only alternative available to more vulnerable segments of the student population.

However, knowledge on some vital information including the existence of herbal or scientifically proven cures, spiritual causes of HIV/AIDS, the transmission of HIV through body contact, and the determination of persons infected with HIV/AIDs by visual observation is deficient among segments of the students and needs further attention.