"I think it's a tragically difficult situation, " adds Perry Glasser, a college English professor who lives in Haverhill, Mass.
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Mr. Blakewell is a retiree in Florida and Wisconsin who teaches college English.
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An Iona College English major who got a master's in business administration from New York University at night, Greifeld spent much of his career selling computer systems for processing and clearing trades.
Now an English college is cannibalizing its library and cashing out, to pay for some building renovations.
Sixty-seven percent met or surpassed the college benchmarks in English and just more than half, 52%, met them in reading.
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For three years, he wrote with no success, while teaching mathematics and English at Washington College.
Askew and Helmes, both entertainment journalists, were English majors in college and fans of classic literature.
He studied chemistry and English at City College and had a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
He studied physics and English at the College of Charleston, but dropped out his junior year to sail to the Bahamas.
Previous to that, the only writing that I had done was for my own pleasure or when I was pursuing an English degree in college.
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Abelson graduated with degrees in chemistry and English from City College of New York, and earned a master's degree from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Among them was Nora Razon, who received tutoring in English at the first College Track center in East Palo Alto, Calif.
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Sure, this list changes from college to college but some math, some English, perhaps the very basics of another language and so on.
Mr. Burton (1577-1650) was an English vicar and a college librarian, and his thinking was informed by both religious orthodoxy and the more secular canon of classical literature.
Erin earlier studied English at Gustavus Adolphus College, in St.
Brooke Jaffe, a 21-year-old English major at Barnard College in New York, and Justin Lambert, a 20-year-old nursing major at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, are two cancer patients in remission who helped with the project.
And the genre has flourished, allowing fans to adapt beloved stories and tailor existing literature to fit their own preferences, said Francesca Coppa, an English professor at Muhlenberg College and founding board member of the Organization for Transformative Works.
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Abigail Dalton graduated from Wellesley College in 2008 with a degree in English and history.
Always a striver, Alemany completed college in three years, majoring in English literature with an eye on a legal career.
He signed up for English classes at a community college, where a teacher encouraged him to attend the University of California, Berkeley.
While in college, he got a degree in English and creative writing.
With little knowledge of English, he entered community college in San Joaquin, later graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a degree in medicine from Harvard Medical School.
He holds dual degrees in psychology and English from Saint Mary's College, a Ph.
In 1992 he took a year off from prestigious Moscow State University to study at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he perfected his English.
Finally, take the scenic route along the back of Merton College, where Tolkien was a professor of English language and literature between 1945 and 1959 after leaving Pembroke.
The Dictionary of American Regional English project is part of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Joan Houston Hall is chief editor.
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Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
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