For me and my colleagues, the universe of the university was often overwhelming, the possibilities so endless it could feel like planets spinning out of control.
To talented students from less-than-wealthy backgrounds, a state university is often the only realistic college choice.
His relationship with the university is often compared to the one the Nike chief executive Phil Knight has with Oregon, his alma mater.
Homophobia and transphobia at university are often seen as a separate thing to lad culture, but lad culture is basically privileged people not considering anyone else.
Your first job after graduating from university is often the culmination of years of hard work and, for many graduates, it's the start of a happy career.
Attending university was often seen as a rite of passage, the barmitzvah of your education if you will, and was entered into as a routine thing to do – school, university, the inevitable gap year, then onwards to that career that graduates are assured will be waiting for them at the end of their studies.
The quality of a university is often evaluated by the level of experts on its Faculty.
Indeed, Goldman noted, hiring a proven senior researcher away from another university is often a better economic bet than launching even an apparently stellar novice.
And, as American students famously complained in 2009, the jobs they get when they leave university are often the same jobs they did, part-time, when they were at university.
The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing "corporate" models of governance.
