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My elder brother wants to build a girls’ college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don’t have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued – with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

I’ve done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.

We’re coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn’t get into very many colleges.

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an ‘intellectual.’ When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn’t afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

Community colleges, businesses, trade associations and others have begun to issue a range of their own credentials to certify when a worker has mastered a valuable expertise. Apprenticeships often fill this need perfectly.

Guaranteeing the success of our local colleges and universities is vital to the St. Louis’ region, our country, and our world.

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

I’ll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs… We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.

A couple colleges tried recruiting me without Marcus and I just shut it down right away. That was clear from the beginning. It was always a package deal.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

The ’80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn’t integrate their film and theater departments – so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn’t talk to the actors.

It’s always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it’s really important to me. I don’t believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

When you’re a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you’re an adult, employers, colleges, friends – people look for differences when you’re adult, and that’s what makes you shine and stand out.

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs… to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

I’ve been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can’t imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.

I’m a craftsman type of teacher. I don’t like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

It’s all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island’s colleges. But we should make an active choice.

We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do – that’s just a simple fact of it.

The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They’re setting up colleges. They’re setting up universities. They’re setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.

I’ve been at two different high schools, two different colleges, so I’ve learned some new playbooks, and that always helps me.

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

I give a speech at some colleges and corporations called ‘Performing Your Life: An Evening with Jeffrey Tambor.’ I get asked a lot of questions, and people say, ‘Your stories are wonderful. You should write a book.’

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I’ve worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

College athletes are workers, period. They are skilled and disciplined young people who deserve so much more than to be treated, in many cases, as sources of revenue without autonomy or ownership over their labor and value by the colleges and universities they attend.

It’s a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn’t go through banks.

Boys are more likely than girls to look at the cost-benefit tradeoff of going to college. The imbalance of far more women than men at colleges has been a factor in the various sex scandals that have made news in the last couple of years.

People look at me like I’m crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

It’s important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don’t work, and you can shave off the excess.

I’ve grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually – Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods… Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

We can make his work reach youngsters by organising literary events and competitions in schools and colleges. We can also use mainstream media to spread Kaloji’s work among the public. Also it’s important to honour litterateurs when they are alive; sadly Kaloji never got his due in his lifetime.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It’s difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka’s plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.