Famous Quotes & Sayings

The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

A lot of people will have that mentality of: Why Truman?, but I'll tell you what - we have a lot of good things at Truman. The people who go to school here are pretty fortunate. I'm fortunate to be here. We have the best academics in the conference. Our kids are getting jobs. We've just been named the No. 1 school in the conference for graduation rate. That's what you talk about.

A meeting of the Academic Council (AC) has been scheduled for Monday, while a meeting of the Governing Council (GC) has been scheduled for September 14. We decided to open up the Academic Department for two days - today and tomorrow - to facilitate the meeting of the AC.

A lot of us are concerned about the academic performance of baseball teams.

They gave a nice academic touch to our squad.

Francis Collins

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

Francis Collins

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

This is such a good competition because it places emphasis more on academics rather than looks. It really is a more level playing field because of that.

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

This is particularly important for academic researchers who are seeking to find out if discoveries in the laboratory actually have promise in people. Now we can learn tremendous amounts of information without exposing people to very high doses.

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

The University went into this knowing that our role was going to be to raise the standards of the current academic program.

Winona LaDuke

The University of Minnesota has basically said, 'Well, we aren't intending to do it. But we want the right to.' And that's the problem, is that open door. I understand academic freedom. I'm a big supporter of academic freedom. But I feel like there should be some academic responsibility.

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

The university has a budget and some of it goes to Academic Affairs. Every year within their budget they can hire 'X' number of teachers. The president has decided to add to that amount with the $1 million this year.

This goes back two or three years, (when we were) sorting out what we could do for the (Plan for Academic Enrichment) in advance of the campaign.

John Clarke

This award is presented by the state. They make their choices based on both athletic and academic excellence.

This is academics in action, purposeful learning. We need to teach kids to give and to help others.

This is an academic enterprise of a particular kind in the fine arts: taking a program and honing it to a very high degree.

For her, academics has always come first. She's going to be surrounded by players with the same focus.

Mark Zandi

They don't have Greenspan's practical edge to them, but they all have academic and government policy experience. I hesitate to say they won't live up to Greenspan, but that would be hoping for an awful lot.

They don't even talk about basketball. It's telling you straight out: Obviously, you have to make time for basketball. But academics come first. You have to take care of business in the classroom to even have a chance to play. If you don't succeed in the classroom, you aren't getting on the court.

Jim Calhoun

They are barred indefinitely from all team activities, and their academic and personal activities will be closely monitored on a daily basis by the members of our basketball staff. They will continue to have complete access to all of the academic support staff so they can focus their energies on their studies.

This milestone just means that I have been fortunate enough to work at a school that has a great academic reputation. That lets us attract some quality student athletes. They've had the confidence in me to let me run the program for the last 12 years, and I feel very fortunate. It also makes me think about the coach I played for here at AU, Don Holler. Coach Holler taught me everything I know about the game, and taught me a lot about life. He and his wife are very close to me.

Karen Walker

This measure would require a parent to decide when a child is 9 or 10 years old what his academic needs and athletic interests will be for the next seven to eight years.

Eric Kandel

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

There's a big difference in managing a rather large, academic medical center that has a level one trauma center, a new children's hospital coming on line soon, a lot of critical health care delivery needs -- and (then) managing the security of the campus.

You show me a great athletic program and you're probably going to have a great academic program as well, ... For some reason, they go hand in hand. There's no doubt there's a huge correlation.

This is a welcomed validation that the NCAA believes we are on the right path with our academic game plan.

Bob Muglia

This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

Eric Hyman

This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.

This is the first step toward academic reform, being able to measure what you're doing and be accountable for it.