“But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.” OrderEconomicStudentsFootballCollegeProgramPreparedMissionsAcademicBe PreparedMockeryFeesRigorGoing To CollegeEconomic Order Author:Buzz Bissinger
“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.” IfsStatesGovernmentPoliticalWealthSupportAmountMembersProgramWideSpendingScalesFinanceVarietyWelfareProductiveMassiveMechanismAcademicSchemesTaxationDeficitResortsPolitical PowerExpendituresWelfare StateLarge ScaleJargonDeficit Spending Author:Alan Greenspan
“We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.” WantHelpingHappensAmericaSpiritEconomyCollegeSucceedProgramInstitutionsUniversityAcademicNurtureLinkedVisionariesEntrepreneurialCampusNorth AmericaEntrepreneurial SpiritOttawaAlgonquins Author:Bob Chiarelli
“Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolMotherTurnsAnswersSupportCuttingSpecialSpeechProgramPressesDevotionAcademicVeteranConferencesFundingGovernment ProgramsFailure In LifePress ConferencesDeceasedStumpsDraconian Author:Gail Collins
“Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights programs. The main issue is state-directed international terrorism. Right at that time that big industry developed. That's when you start getting the academic departments on terrorism.” HumansKindStatesBigsIssuesRightsPlansIndustryProgramInternationalHuman RightsTerrorTerrorismAdministrationDepartmentAcademicCarterInternational Terrorism Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.” PeopleThinkingYearsEffortGroupsParticularProgramImpactIdeologyAcademicTanksAdvocacy Author:Jane Mayer
“Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.” PeopleMatterJobsFrontsSeriousTrainingProgramAcademicClientsTherapistsPsych Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.” KindChildrenDoneSchoolBitsWatchesOne ThingMissingProgramUnhappyMy ChildrenAcademicElites Author:Marva Collins
“In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.” WorldMadeRealBlackRealizingWhiteUnitedGroupsStudentsExerciseProgramOrganizationMeetingsSlaveReal WorldAcademicBlack And WhiteRivalsCarterJanuaryCampusRepercussionsUclaAfros Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.” PeopleYearsSchoolOpportunitySportsClassBandProgramConsistentGraduatesAcademicChorusGraduating Class Author:Josh Turner
“Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.” TodayGivenGoalStudyIdentityMembersProgramMinoritiesAcademicMentalitySelectShortcomingsGhettoLiberal Education Author:Tony Judt
“It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.” StudyEnvironmentInfluencePositionProgramEnvironmentalReputationAustraliaAcademicAsiaSingaporeBachelors Author:E. O. Wilson