“The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.” UseGovernmentUsedTermCostPaidUniversityUsed To BeBudgetsFederal GovernmentItemsShifting Author:Charles M. Vest
“When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.” RememberCoursesSawsTeacherStudentsPaidUniversityStoresAdsMinimumGroceriesMinimum WageGrocery StoresPart TimePrepsPrincetonPrinceton University Author:John Katzman
“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.” ShouldTryingYearsI CanGuyPaperDrawsPaidUniversityComicAdsCampusCartoonistFreshmanComic StripsFunny GuyFreshman Year Author:Dan Povenmire
“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.” PeopleWellsGovernmentJobsInterestingOrganizationPaidUniversityRetirementSevereIndictmentGovernment Service Author:Peter Drucker
“Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.” GrowthAttentionEconomicHigherPoliticianPaidUniversityEconomistEconomic GrowthHigher Education Author:Derek Bok
“I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.” WayPaidUniversityMy WayTexasUmpiresUniversity Of Texas Author:Jim Evans
“We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.” KindIdeasCommonCollegePaidUniversityMedicalCommon SenseRadicalRevolutionaryTuitionColleges And UniversitiesRadical Ideas Author:Bernie Sanders
“After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.” WellsEndsSelfDecidedPaidUniversityJournalistFlatsScotlandEmployedTrickyLecturerGlasgowArchaeologistsPaying Rent Author:Neil Oliver
“The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeCountryStatesCareEarthDifficultUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleCollegeBecomingBenefitsMajorsPaidUniversityMedicalOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareGuaranteesMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.” IfsKnowsStatesMightWantedCommunityLevelsCollegePaidUniversityGradesHarvardAttendanceCommunity College Author:Mitch Albom
“Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.” PeopleCountryGovernmentSchoolInterestChurchTeacherLandBuiltPaidUniversityEightGradesMissionaryEmployedCivil Society Author:Nelson Mandela
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton
“Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.” DifferentCoursesPaidUniversityScholarship Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.” IfsMindLongProblemHappensUsedParentStudentsCollegeConcernAccountsPaidBillsUniversityUsed To BeChiefsTaxpayersBank AccountsColleges And Universities Author:George Leef