James E. Rogers
James E. Rogers
James E. "Jim" Rogerswas an American entrepreneur and former attorney. He served as interim chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the University of Arizona College of Law carried his name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.
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I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
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To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
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Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
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The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
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No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.
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It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
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It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
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When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.
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You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
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Some think that the words spoken by John Kennedy at his inauguration have no application in Nevada. I do not believe that is true.
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No state legislature ever built a great university.