Zitat des Tages über Alumni:
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses - diversity of opinion and belief - has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way.
I do have a lot of alumni in Washington.
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
