The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.
As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.
No state legislature ever built a great university.
My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.
When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.
I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.
Ohio State University puts out some very fine football players.
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.
One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
I went to Syracuse University.
It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
My mom is an avid musical theatergoer. My dad would always get a subscription to the Syracuse Stage. I was always exposed to theater. So I went to a theater conservatory at Boston University.
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at Shakespeare in the Park in N.Y.C. That show transferred, so I got to make my Broadway debut doing 'The Tempest' with Patrick Stewart.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.