James E. Rogers
James E. Rogers
James E. "Jim" Rogerswas an American entrepreneur and former attorney. He served as interim chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the University of Arizona College of Law carried his name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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No state legislature ever built a great university.
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
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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.
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I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.
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Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
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You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
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Some think that the words spoken by John Kennedy at his inauguration have no application in Nevada. I do not believe that is true.
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When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.
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I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
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Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
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I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
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The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
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It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.