Community College Quotes - Page 2

• I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us more and more is whether you have good prospects or you don't. Do you live a neighborhood where the schools are good? If you don't, your kids may not read until the time they're in third grade. Do you at least have access to a community college that will give you job training skills so that if you don't go for four years you will at least come out with a decent job and a decent wage. Too many people don't have that opportunity.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Kids, School, College

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.

  Jill Biden

  Jobs, Moving, College

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

  Barack Obama

  College, Two, Years

  "Episode 611: Community". wwno.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  Alexis Denisof

  College, Class, House

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, College, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin

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• Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, College, Play

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• Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees - especially in STEM fields - benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

  Jill Biden

  Home, College, Community

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  College, Giving, Community

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• I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

  Moby

  Teaching, College, Community

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• Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Real, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

  Jill Biden

  College, Best Kept Secrets, America

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.

  John Baldessari

  Couple, Teaching, Thinking

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• Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  "Dem Congressman: Obama's Budget A 'Nervous Breakdown On Paper'". Real Clear Politics Video, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2012.

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.

  John Podhoretz

  College, Government, Office

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• In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

  Diane Black

  Mother, College, Nurse

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• In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.

  Denise Juneau

  Strong, Home, Kids

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• I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

  Dylan O'Brien

  School, College, Class

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Community, Students

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• The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Dream, College, Years

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• I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Grief, School

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  College, Years, Two

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college.

  Jill Biden

  Stupid, College, Community

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