He is urging staff and as many of the 25,000 students as possible to accompany him on a march from Pall Mall to Westminster to mark Colleges Week, a campaign organised by the Association of Colleges to raise the profile of further education (FE) and persuade the government to redress eight years of underfunding.
It has, over the years, established such strong links with the industry it always hoped to serve that the two are now practically indivisible: new students enter, aged 18, through the door marked "College" and exit, two years later, through the revolving door and straight into the music biz.
Now in its ninth year of compiling and sharing critical information on colleges across the country, College Results Online marks colleges with one of our "Bottom 5 Percent Indicators" when they have dismal graduation rates or don't enroll their fair share of low-income students.
He graduated from Mark Hopkins College in Brattleboro, Vt., now closed.
Among the other institutions in the state that have made their mark in college sports, especially basketball, are Western Kentucky University and Murray State University.
Three historically black universities in Mississippi, members of the Southwestern Athletic conference, also have made their mark on college football (not least with their outstanding marching bands).
When Tennessee beat Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, one of the broadcasters mentioned that the Vols had become the 10th team to reach the 600-victory mark in college football.
The work of Derwent Coleridge, principal of St. Mark's College, London, who admitted that he took his models not from the pedagogical seminaries of Germany but from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, exemplified the attempt to introduce a larger element of general education into teacher preparation.
Only six campuses with relatively small numbers of students taking the exams failed to meet the 80percentt mark: Boricua College (which had a 39percentt passing rate), Medgar Evers (62percentt), York (67percentt), Marymount Manhattan (66percentt), Mercy College's Bronx campus (77 percent) and Pratt Institute (77 percent).
He left his mark on college campuses around the country and designed embassies for the U.S. State Department in London and Oslo.
