I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
