Sentence examples for first wave of university from inspiring English sources

At age 17, I started studying for a bachelor's degree at the University of Arkansas, entering one of the first wave of university "exercise science" programs that sprouted up all over the United States in the late 1970s and early '80s.

Already, a second wave of universities in eastern European countries have expressed interest in teaching this child rights syllabus.

She took early retirement in 1982, in the first wave of cuts to university funding by the Thatcher government.

Massive open online courses or MOOCs represent the first wave of disruptive change for universities and how they transmit knowledge.

He's part of the first wave of graduates to have left university after paying £9,000-a-year fees.

By the early 1970s the Indian state had crushed the first wave of agitation, led largely by university educated urbanites.

Ford, who grew up in Washington, was among the first wave of African-American players at the university and was initially suspicious of Bowden because of his Birmingham, Ala., roots and his accent as thick as gravy on grits.

Traditionally, in the first wave of divestment, small U.S. institutions and universities divest and in doing so begin to shift the tides of public opinion, according to the Oxford report.

Ms. Jackson, 58, a poet and playwright here whose collection "Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners" won the 1994 Carl Sandburg Award for poetry, said she sought to breathe life into the experiences of the first wave of black students into mostly white universities, a story that she said had not been told nearly enough.

The inflow and first wave of out-migration is related to universities.

It's the university application season - with the first wave of deadlines, including Oxford and Cambridge, coming this week.