What incentive does a university have to control costs when it has a steady supply of students being lent federal funds?
From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.
I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.
You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.
It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.
My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
People think I just dropped out of university and went, 'Mum, Dad, get me a job in television.'
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.
My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!
I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.
To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.
I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
When we started in university we were wearing lampshades on our heads and playing wacky covers like 'I'm a Believer.'
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.
I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.
The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
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