But, he added, better educated executives and filmmakers would waste less money, and support for the new center would ultimately boost the stature of film at other universities, notwithstanding what he described as an enduring bias against cinema as being "not qualified to sit in the pantheon" of great arts.
Still, I suspect I qualify, functionally and culturally, as part of Mr Murray's "new upper class", my middle-class background and third-tier university degrees notwithstanding.
However, few studies in mainland China have examined health-promoting behaviors among university students, notwithstanding the dramatic development of higher education over the past two decades.
Its esteem for dogs notwithstanding, the university hasn't given up on mechanizing them.
Its name notwithstanding, the university was primarily collegiate and vocational in nature with two hundred to five hundred students enrolled annually in preparatory, collegiate, law, and medical schools.
And as long as basketball players are the university's most prominent representatives, Coach K notwithstanding, basketball players will be an entity apart.
The university has done so notwithstanding violence, actual or threatened, from violent ultraleft off-campus groups.
Notwithstanding these benefits domestic university-company links remain weak overall, largely for cultural and historical reasons.
Notwithstanding the shortcomings of US universities, they offer hope and possibility.
Notwithstanding the ongoing evaluation of fees, first-year university tuition can be as high as R65 000 per year, and drop-out rates remain worrying.
One of the fundamental realities of university life is that--lip service from the administration notwithstanding--the primary criteria for career advancement are grants from traditional funding sources and published "basic" research.
