“Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.” YearsStatesTodayCollegeMomDadPercentYears AgoUniversityInflationGoing To College Author:Elizabeth Warren
“A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.” PeopleDoneChristianReligiousCitiesStudyNew YorkPercentClaimsUniversityJew Author:William Bennett
“There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.” WorldWellsStillsProblemTurnsClassEconomyAlivePercentUniversityDespiteBudgetsAgendasArticlesAcademicEntrepreneurial Author:Tom Peters
“The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.” IfsBodyWould BeStudentsPercentUniversityGradesAsianSelectedAmerican Universities Author:Paul Achleitner
“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.” MenStillsReasonThreeDifficultFourWifeRightsStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityDivorceIranOfferingSixtyWomens RightsViolationUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.” LeftPercentUniversityPainter Author:Rebecca Miller
“Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.” PeopleYoungNumbersStudyGrewInternetPercentUniversityDuesGamblingExposurePennsylvaniaUniversity Of Pennsylvania Author:Spencer Bachus
“Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.” MenStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityEducatedIranUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.” BelieveStudyPercentUniversityDeedsFighterHeroicSyriaBerlinHollandNetherlandsHeroic Deeds Author:Geert Wilders
“There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.” ReasonUsedFiveCollegeMajorsPercentFemaleOppositesMalesUniversityUsed To BeReason WhyThirtyVersusEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.” IfsWellsImportantDifferentEnoughStoriesBitsBlackWhitePoorCitiesCollegeDrugLuckyPercentDrinkingUniversityFakeGet AwayIllegalMisfortunesNew OrleansDorms Author:Tim Wise