568 Quotes About Academic

Art, music -- all those things that we all know contribute to the full development of a young person and can actually accelerate gains in academic areas -- we can't just put those aside,

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.

Student bus ridership was up 30 percent last academic year. We hope to see that improve even more.

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

Often I think we can accomplish things in the summertime that can't be in the three other academic quarters. Students have more time in the summer, when there are fewer major requirements being taught. We could have intensive courses in critical languages at that point where students who wanted, in the course of a single quarter, to get the first or second year of a language accomplished, they would have to be willing to study, but the incentive to do so would be there.

It says a great deal about our student-athletes to have a solid representation on the Academic All-League Team. I am extremely pleased and proud of our team for their successes both in the pool and the classroom.

The culture is changing in college sports today, and the emphasis on students is coming back into play. That's the goal of academic reform. The goal is not to unnecessarily take scholarships away from teams.

I think our booth has helped parents because it allows them to ask what the exact subject matter of the program is - responsibility, academic success, study skills and the different offices and resources that are available to students. It is reassuring to them to know those things, especially since those are the types of things parents are most worried about when they send their kids away to college.

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is the engine that will transform medicine.