Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are sorry to be losing Michael but he wants to transfer to another school at this time. We wish him nothing but the best of luck in his future academic and basketball endeavors.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

The program is all about attracting and retaining top quality teachers who will ensure the academic success of our students.

There are probably more schools with a combination of really good athletics and academics than any state in the country.

Stephen Mangan

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Flea

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

Alan Bennett

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

Joe Paterno

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.

This was a matter of curtailing academic freedom, free association and open debate.

There are hardly any schools giving four-year bachelor's degrees in automotive, and that creates a dilemma because you are asking for a person with technical experience and academic experience at a level that the majority of the people you are trying to employ don't have.

When you hear people taking three hours, it raises a lot of questions. And I think the academic staff and everybody doesn't want to raise the issue and have somebody call them. Or have the NCAA call them again asking what is going on.

We've got to fix that. Some of that is being taken care of by managing the facility and reprioritization. It's a multi-use facility. We share that with the university's academic mission.

We've got three pillars that we're going to try and build this program around. The first is academic integrity. The second is social responsibility. We want good citizens. Third is competitive excellence. When I evaluate our program on those three pillars, I think we're making good progress.

The reason why I chose these projects is because it combines a lot of academic skills.

There has been an evolution in his thinking. . . . He is much more aware of the subtleties of making this work in the American political process. He is not an egghead academic who doesn't get it. He knows how to learn and operate in the real world.

There has been a frustration that some of the economic impact studies have been less than complete. It's worth us just challenging academics as a whole and commissioning our own study to see what the facts are.

We thought it was a good opportunity to have well known academic theologians speak on a variety of topics.

Why build a mega-high school when smaller configurations seem to foster a better academic environment?

This year's winners show a devotion to their schools, a proven record of academic success and strong faith values. Like those scholarship recipients who have gone before them, this group is outstanding in every way.

Those with an academic approach bring really quite a keen mind to the party but not necessarily an awareness of the reality of the markets and economic activity.

We can't lose an inordinate number of people to academic and character issues.

When our recruits visit Swarthmore, we have them stay with current team members. We want them to get a taste not only of what the team is like, but also show them the academic and social life on campus.