Quotes About Alumni

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

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.

I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It's a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

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.

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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.

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 can only say that the Goldman alumni with whom I worked brought not only substantial financial expertise to their government duties, as one would expect, but also a strong dedication to the public interest.

I've been in all kinds of various arrangements of chain of command, and I was very comfortable - and everybody was - and I think the music shows that. I'm an honorary Foo Fighter, I guess. Or alumni or something. I'm proud to be one.

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.

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

The University of Maryland was an inspiration for me, and the relationships I made there have lasted a lifetime.

I am a trained actor and an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

dancing in various strangely old-fashioned places around LA., especially one place that is now gone, called the Black Forest, where a German band played, and tall USC alumni of German descent did gorgeous old waltzes.

It was some great times and some great moments... I'm proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn't for my time there, there's no way I'd be excelling at Fox and acting.

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders.

The British public schools have become, so to speak, the property of the British public, through alumni who have given themselves to England. But American private schools have remained for the most part "private." And, in the tradition of American private enterprise, which believes that a share of the profits should be plowed back into the corporation, American prep school alumni have given largely to the treasuries of their alma maters.

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.