Sentence examples for challenging college from inspiring English sources

Kudos to Bard College and its president, Leon Botstein, for challenging college admission testing and saying he is trying to "start a debate about the kind of dishonesty that prevails" in college admissions.

I had a lot of intellectual curiosity so I wanted to go to an academically challenging college.

Over the first two years, we will invest $10 million to implement a comprehensive approach to the problem that will support students while also challenging colleges to do better.

I recently returned from playing hooky for a few days to attend the Peace Corps 50th-anniversary celebrations in Washington along with 5,000 other returned volunteers — just a fraction of the nearly quarter-million who have served our country since J.F.K. challenged college students on a freezing campaign night in Michigan to devote their skills to helping people overseas.

After Colbert challenged college students to set up super PACs, a number of them did and bought the Stephen Colbert Super PAC Super Fun Kit online.

What seems elite may be a disaster waiting to happen for one student whereas a statistically challenged college may have what another student needs to succeed.

Julian Agyeman, professor of urban environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, also challenges colleges to "broaden and redefine sustainability and then measure what matters within that definition".

The sense was that financially challenged colleges, even some that were publicly "need blind" in their selections, were more "need aware" this year.

Mr. Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions at Harvard, led a commission of college admissions officials who drafted the study, which challenges colleges and universities to examine their use of the SAT and ACT and to consider whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages or whether they can make the tests optional for admissions.

The Lumina Foundation has challenged colleges with prizes to spark widespread innovation.

That risk, along with reportedly higher levels of depression and other emotional problems, will challenge colleges to provide enough counseling support and substance abuse education, he said.