Colleges Quotations | Page 2

Community colleges are a hot issue right now.

I have had a lot of tough decisions since coming to the University of Cincinnati, ... I wanted a bigger, more complex institution with a large medical program, a robust athletic program, all the complement of colleges and departments that come with a full-service, comprehensive research institution. And I got it.

I have colleges in programs that are somewhat similar to the GEAR UP program. But they are astounded when they look at the success that this program has had.

Our parents kind of looked at different magazines and talked to people they knew and kind of looked at colleges that were ranked high in the Midwest.

School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.

Especially in the Inland Empire, we're putting kids in harm's way. The colleges aren't doing it. The pros aren't doing it. These are 16- and 17-year-old boys. We've got to keep them safe.

It should be balanced without reducing K-12 classroom funding and without crippling our universities, community colleges and state agencies.

I think it was extraordinary times. Somehow in this 1964, 1965 era, somehow you got a group of people in that house from different colleges and different origins. It was a house where in scholastic things, in leadership and in sports, they all came in first. For that era, somehow it clicked.

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

The students and faculty of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are motivated survivors and self-achievers. We look forward to providing them with effective tools and supportive services that assist them in maximizing their health as they work to transform their communities.