Students at Chelsea withdrew their artwork at a recent degree show, covering it with posters about the campaign, in a sort of degree-show strike.
A recent nationwide study that followed community college freshmen over six years found that only 35 percent earned any sort of degree.
The interviewer asked whether "the anti-Nazi films of the nineteen-forties were motivated by the desire to fight the enemy, a sort of first degree that a reworking of a genre would risk breaking".
The 10-week courses are of a kind widely followed in a country where dog discipline is taken seriously and woods echo to the come-hither cry of "Platz!" The courses lead to a qualification called Hundefuhrerschein I, a sort of dog degree.
I'd graduated from art school with a sort of bogus degree and was bouncing from job to job when I responded to an ad on Craigslist.
Some offer certificates of completion or achievement for a small fee, and some companies are packaging several related courses in business or technology to create a sort of mini-degree with affordable tuition.
Dear Amy, We haven't met, but already we're connected, a sort of "six degrees of separation" because once you've been diagnosed with breast cancer you're immediately part of a group of people -- not just women -- who are coping and learning to live with breast cancer.
Balanced literary judgments alternate with a sort of character assassination by degrees.
Sure, the degree holds a sort of ceremonial value, and at some point down the line, it might get you selected for a job over someone equally qualified that does not have a degree.
Sure, the degree holds a sort of ceremonial value, and at some point down the line, it might get you selected for a job over someone equally qualified that does not have a degree, but that is really it (unless you want to be a neurosurgeon or an astrophysicist in which case, please continue. We need more of you and less of me).
