Admission Quote by Derek Bok Download Open image “Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” — Derek Bok ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admission Advantage Program
Increasing postsecondary enrollment and success, particularly among first-generation, low-income, and minority students, is good for students and our state's economy. — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As a first-generation college student, I know the hurdles that far too many people face in accessing quality, affordable higher education. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Mum was on benefits for a few years. Then I failed the 11-plus and I went to the secondary modern. And that was hard… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers. — Yuta Watanabe Copy Share Image
Before my mother died, I was supposed to go to the local university, where I'd applied early decision. It was the same school my… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income… — Ron Lewis Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,” — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the… — George Combe Copy Share Image
Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
