Students
The enrollment numbers have been increasing over the years. There are many reasons for this:
- Ease of admission
- Location, near Fort Drum:1220 Coffeen Street Watertown, New York 13601
- The cost of tution
- The flexibility of courses
- and many others
The number of students has come to 3,417, in the fall of 2011, that combines both full-time and part-time students. The student body is a combination of a variety of people; younger, older, different races, military men and women, and parents.
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Famous quotes containing the word students:
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)