Sentence examples for becoming universities from inspiring English sources

Reformers hope that this alone will reduce the prison population by about 35%, and prevent jails becoming universities of crime for the merely wayward.Nobody is deluding themselves that these reforms will happen overnight.

MP for Tunbridge Wells in Kent since 2005, Clark, 48, began at the communities department as planning minister, then took on junior roles at the Treasury and Cabinet Office before becoming universities minister.

By the end of the 19th century, this commitment to character formation, to sustaining "curiosity and humility," as Delbanco writes, was in sharp tension with a commitment to professionalization. Colleges were becoming universities, which meant they were getting into the business of research.

In his first major speech since becoming universities minister, Mr Willetts suggested raising tuition fees would not be enough to solve the funding problems.

He became a full professor in 1963, and was appointed to the prestigious Seth Low professorship in 1967, becoming university professor in 1992.

Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton and the first woman to run the university, spent years deflecting administrative jobs -- exactly the sort of jobs that traditionally lead to becoming university president.

Western foreign correspondents — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent among them — are increasingly becoming university professors in China, in a nation that wants international expertise but also grapples with its own issues with free speech.

In this 2006 TED lecture, Sir Ken Robinson fires a shot over the bow of modern public education, suggesting that schooling is, basically, set up to guide students toward becoming university professors.

Dr. Hotzler, who earned his bachelor's degree and doctorate in physical metallurgy from Polytechnic Institute (now Polytechnic University), was vice president and dean of academic affairs at Queensborough Community College before becoming university dean.

I immediately took a liking to this elderly gentleman with a thick German accent who wore a jacket and tie, always with a tie clip, David said, even to rake leaves or shovel snow, and whose Old World tact and bonhomie made him so beloved of his former students that many had emulated their mentor, becoming university professors themselves.

Before becoming university president, Wethington had administered the community-college system.