Undergraduates Quotes

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.