Colleges

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

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That may not sound like a huge amount of money but for some kids it may mean the money to buy all their books or pay for housing. Also, a lot of colleges and universities have become our collegiate partners and are offering scholarship recipients matching scholarships.

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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

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We were contacted by some reps and asked if we'd be interested in going around to colleges, meeting the fans and answering questions. It's great to be able to meet so many different fans of the movie. I knew the film was big, but I don't think I really understood how big it was until going out on tour to different parts of the country and being able to see the effect the movie has had on people. I've met fans from the age of three to 78 - it's awesome.

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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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I think it's great to have our tournament in such a first-class facility like that. I know all the coaches from four-year colleges like it better, too. Salina was good to us, but I think this is a great move.

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I think this is a good example of why many colleges and high schools have de-emphasized class rank. It's part of the education process that doesn't involve education.

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The amount of government funding has not been keeping up with costs of providing higher education, which is why colleges have to cut back on professors' salaries.

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Every game is an important one, ... And it's not just the seniors. For juniors, they need to be on the field to get noticed by colleges.

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It reminds me of going to the Nike-type camps in high school where everybody's trying to get picked up by colleges. The competition was tremendous and there's a lot of pressure on you.

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It's unacceptable that we don't have 70, 80 percent of our kids thinking, preparing themselves and succeeding going off to four-year colleges. That's where we need to be, ... They're called prep schools for a reason, because they prep you for the next stage.

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Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

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I don't know how many colleges would have a film collection of one particular studio.

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Colleges are going to see Plainfield's an accredited school and say, 'Kids going there are learning what they need to know.'

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It should be balanced without reducing K-12 classroom funding and without crippling our universities, community colleges and state agencies.

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If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

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Endowments are something private colleges rely on for enrollment and community support.

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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

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I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

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I had always imagined that ClichT was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

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They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.

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He's a diamond in the rough. A lot of colleges missed the boat on this one. I definitely believe he'll emerge at a 4-year institution a couple years from now.

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We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

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Oxford is -- Oxford not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

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