For Mr Yudof, anything less is a "formula for a third-class university".In this section The city laid bare An old dream in trouble Tom Daschle to the rescue Still breathing Chicanery, but a boon to Bush Westward ho! ReprintsOther land-grant universities are feeling the same cold wind.
If you do that, it can be like a first-class university".
Columbia University is a great example of a first-class university that recruits at military bases and understands the value and untapped potential of many veterans.
You just knew that each class was a hoop you must jump through on your way to a first-class university.
A compromise, with the special zone guarantees Mr. Stringer suggests, could give Columbia the room it needs to remain a first-class university and the neighborhood residents the assurances they need that their lives will not suffer.
Calling the trips no more than junkets, he added: "Any student who needs to have this experience to write about in their college essay is not going to get admitted to a first-class university".
Like so many other things within the UC system that took a long time to create, including its first-class university press, this strength in public engagement is fragile, and is at risk in a time of dwindling state support for higher education.
Europe has some first-class universities, scientific institutions and research organisations.
The first-class universities, policy initiatives and Silicon Alley, she said, are producing "a groundswell of technology in New York.
Better themes for politicians would be their plans to develop first-class universities, nourish the arts, promote urban design and stimulate new industries in anything from alternative energy to desalinating water.
After all, a lot of Americans go for years on end without ever setting foot in Indiana even though it is a fine state, full of lovely people and some first-class universities, not to mention the RV Hall of Fame, the world's largest ball of paint and the Dan Quayle museum.
