COMMUNITY COLLEGE ALUMNI
Before being elected “Mayor of Flavortown,” this celebrity chef attended both American River College and College of the Redwoods in California.
Who is Guy Fieri?
This first lady, who is definitely a doctor, taught English composition and remedial writing at Delaware Technical Community College from 1993 to 2008.
Who is Dr. Jill Biden?
Community college is now free in 17 U.S. states; this state was the first to offer free community college to anyone who would “volunteer.”
What is Tennessee?
This Boston-based company proudly proclaims “We were the first to bring nudging to higher education.”
What is Persistence Plus?
This rocker walked or hitchhiked to classes at Ocean City College in Toms River, New Jersey, for only one semester; he decided instead he was "Born to Run."
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
The first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, she studied broadcast journalism at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio.
Who is Halle Berry?
This institution is home to the the Kupferberg Holocaust Center, one of the largest Holocaust research archives in the U.S.
What is Queensborough Community College?
The Pell Grant is named for Claiborne Pell, who served as U.S. Senator from this New England state from 1961 to 1997.
What is Rhode Island?
Dr. Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge, won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, which is awarded annually in this European capital.
Where is Oslo?
This EGOT winner has two Academy Awards to her name: Best Actress for Funny Girl and Best Song for A Star is Born.
Who is Barbra Streisand?
Before writing The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club, she attended San Jose City College.
Who is Amy Tan?
In 2014, The Princeton Review ranked this institution at number 18 on its list of “happiest students.”
What is Ohio University?
This president established the first commission to analyze the U.S. system of higher education; their 1951 report described community college as “an institution to promote democracy, social mobility and economic development."
Who is Harry S Truman?
The world’s first “nudge unit,” the Behavioural Insights Team, was established in the UK in 2010 under this Prime Minister.
Who is David Cameron?
This fruity dessert is believed to have been invented by Dr. David Strickler, a Pennsylvania optometrist, in 1904.
What is a banana split?
Although he didn’t study electricity, this actor’s first big job after leaving Los Angeles City College was working for The Electric Company.
Who is Morgan Freeman?
The first Google Doodle served as an out-of-office message for founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they attended this Nevada festival in 1998.
What is Burning Man?
The Land Grant Act, which paved the way for the U.S. community college system, was named for this Republican Senator from Vermont.
Who is Justin Smith Morrill?
Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge, wrote a 2016 best-seller in which he described The World According To this popular film franchise.
What is Star Wars?
If you lived in the U.S. on this body of water, you could actually see Russia from your house.
What is the Bering Strait?
Before his career as an actor, wrestler, mayor, and governor, he was part of the student “Body” at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota.
Who is Jesse Ventura?
In a 2018 episode of The Simpsons, Homer becomes mayor of the village of Oriskany and graduates from this institution.
What is Mohawk Valley Community College?
The first U.S. community college was established in this city, fourth largest in Illinois and featured in the opening scene of 1980’s The Blues Brothers.
What is Joliet?
The word nudge is believed to originate from the 17th-century word nyggje, meaning to jostle or rub, in this Scandinavian language.
What is Norwegian?
This 1946 film noir classic starred Humphrey Bogart as Phillip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge.
What is The Big Sleep?