Ana Kasparian

Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it's more likely that they'll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They're also more likely to have parents who will donate large sums of money to the school. When the privileged students graduate, they're expected to join the alumni association and also donate cash.

American Educator

John Wooden

In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

American Coach

Kelvin Sampson

Little old University of Houston jumping up, swinging with the big boys, and that's something to take pride in. I'm happy for our fans, I'm happy for our alumni, but more importantly, I'm happy for our players.

Kenneth C. Griffin

The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.

American Businessman

Raza Murad

I am a trained actor and an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Indian Actor

Josh Rosen

To the UCLA students, alumni, and fans, I appreciate all of your unwavering support.

American Athlete

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

Indian Businessman

Jared Dudley

I'm the face of the B.C. alumni organization.

Ben Parr

I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

American Journalist

Gene Green

American Politician

Alumnus is traditionally male. The female equivalent is alumna, and plural is alumni for mixed or male-only groups and alumnae for females.

Gender Variants

Use alumnus only for someone who has graduated, not for current students.

Not Current Students

Alumnus refers to someone from a specific school, not someone who just attended school in general.

Specific Institutions

 increase emphasis on your neighbors as your support system also a wonderful byproduct of sort of really lousy thing which has been unemployment is a rise in volunteerism that's been noted in our country we also see the phenomenon some of you may have boomerang kids these are boomerang alumni where universities are actually reconnecting

The post-crisis consumer...

 as treasures to guard. Now, mastery and mindfulness will get you to flow, but there's a third condition that turns it into a peak experience. Mattering. Knowing that you make a difference to other people. Early in my career, I was studying fundraising callers who were trying to bring in alumni donations to a university,

Adam Grant: How to stop...

 youngsters failed and that's not right the good Lord and His infinite wisdom didn't create us all equal as far as intelligent concerned any more than we could for size appearance not everybody could earn an A or B and I didn't like that way of judging and and I did know how the alumni of various schools back

True success - John...

 And that's not right. The good Lord in his infinite wisdom didn't create us all equal as far as intelligence is concerned, any more than we're equal for size, appearance. Not everybody could earn an A or a B, and I didn't like that way of judging, and I did know how the alumni of various schools

The difference between...

 chris talks highly of the princeton administration during her tenure she's seen them make real commitments to her program like the fact that they merged the men's and women's lacrosse alumni groups so women can reap the benefits of donations made by male alums but there was one time when chris

She Shoots, She Scores:...

 So we launched a study, and what we found was eye-opening. We sent a survey to business school alumni working in all different organizations. We asked them to write a few sentences about one experience where they were treated rudely, disrespectfully or insensitively,

Why being respectful to...

 Blindness, the same thing. The key to discovering blindness is doing epidemiological surveys and finding out the causes of blindness, so you can mount the correct response. The Seva Foundation was started by a group of alumni

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 the world and particularly in Africa so these are the ideas which are coming out of our alumni and I honestly believe that with with the hundreds and thousands of alumni who will now come through Ames we will just change the

Empowering the next...

 Tacitly, I became passionate about mental health. Inspired by his plight, I helped found the mental health special interest alumni group at my college. And during my tenure as a resident tutor in graduate school,

There's no shame in...

 at a gala for alumni of Harvard Business School. Under a full-size replica of a whale, I sat with the titans of our time as they celebrated their peers and their good deeds. There was pride in a room