Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V. P.

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

With the proliferation of original language playwrights now running or teaching in playwriting programs at prestigious universities, such as NYU Tisch, Brooklyn College, California Institute of the Arts, Yale, Brown, etc.

It is ranked number five in The Washington Post's Hidden Gem's college list, as the best school in Michigan and 52nd best college in the nation by Forbes ( above such prestigious institutions as Brown, the University of California, Berkeley, and Dartmouth College ), and is listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.

In return, he was offered membership of the prestigious Royal College of Physicians.

Graduating from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, Darin won a scholarship to attend Hunter College ; he dropped out in order to play small nightclubs around the city with a musical combo.

Merton College is also rumoured to be the college of the founding members of the alleged Haxley Society, a university-wide establishment and reportedly a chapter of Yale's similarly prestigious Gamma Gamma Phi fraternity.

In 2004, the Wilmington College women's basketball team won the NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship, the most prestigious national title won by a Wilmington sport team.

* Wofford College is a prestigious liberal arts college.

In 1910 Amanda Stoltzfus organized the Tuleta Agriculture High School, the first of its kind in Texas ; its faculty came from such prestigious institutions as Smith College and the University of Wisconsin.

A Scholarship at Trinity College is a prestigious undergraduate award ; a principal aim of the College ( as outlined in the Strategic Plan ) is the pursuit of excellence and one of the most tangible demonstrations of this is the institution of Scholarship.

Marcos attended college at the University of the Philippines, attending the prestigious College of Law.

King's College London School of Medicine is the medical school of King's College London, one of the United Hospitals, and one of the most prestigious medical schools in the UK.

The College of Aviation, with over 700 undergraduate students, offers one of the largest and most prestigious ( top 3 ) Flight Science programs in the nation.

The school newspaper of the University of Kansas is University Daily Kansan, which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition, often called " The Pulitzers of College Journalism " in 2007.

Hertford College Oxford, the present-day incarnation of Hart Hall, still honours him in the title of its most prestigious drinking club, the Sir Henry Pelham Gentlemen's Sporting Society.

The College is rated as " GOOD " by OFSTED and holds the prestigious Investors in People ( IiP ) Champion status and is also an IiP Gold award holder.

She earned a diploma to teach art, but took a chance on a contest and won a prestigious scholarship to the Chicago Musical College and graduated in 1926.

Royal Military College of Canada cadets compete in the prestigious Sandhurst Competition

He first rose to prominence during his career at Boston College, where he received the prestigious Heisman Trophy and the Davey O ' Brien National Quarterback Award in 1984.

The city is home to Dawson College, Quebec's largest CEGEP, and Marianopolis College ; Westmount High School with its sister elementary school Westmount Park School ; Place Alexis Nihon and office towers ; some of the most prestigious private schools in Quebec, including Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, Selwyn House School, Villa Sainte-Marcelline and The Study ; and Westmount Square residential towers and shopping complex, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and funded largely by Westmount resident Samuel Bronfman, the founder of the Seagram liquor empire.

According to the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, " The Chris Awards ( is ) one of the most prestigious documentary, educational, business and informational competitions in the U. S ; ( it is ) the oldest of its kind in North America and celebrating its 54th year.

Broke and working as a musician in New York City after returning from Paris in 1976, Jarmusch applied on a whim to the prestigious Graduate Film School of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts ( then under the direction of Hollywood director László Benedek ).

Since 1982 Kabir has been a voting member of the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who are responsible for presenting the Oscar awards.

The film went on to win the prestigious Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival ( 2002 ) and the Coup de Coeur at the International Sunnyside of the Doc Marseille ( 2002 ).

The choir has a list of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts ( 2003 ).

The film was nominated at the prestigious Montreux TV Festival in the Arts Programme category-and has since been seen throughout the world.

In 1999 Jewison's work was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when he was given the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.

For this novel, Styron received the prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

This prize for portraiture of a man or woman " distinguished in the Arts, Letters, Science or Politics " has grown to be Australia's most popular and prestigious art award.

Merle Haggard accepted the prestigious award for lifetime achievement and " outstanding contribution to American culture " from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2010.

His photographs are part of public collections at several prestigious art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The College of Arts and Sciences is noted for its graduates ’ high rates of acceptance into prestigious medical, dental, law and graduate schools.

This ran parallel to Home's increasing acceptance by various sections of the high brow art world, evidenced for example by the fact that in 2006 he produced an exhibition entitled " Hallucination Generation " at the prestigious Arnolfini in Bristol, won a major Arts Council / BBC commission " London Art Tripping " and he is currently editor of the Semina series for art book publisher Book Works in London ( 2007 – 2010 ); as well as currently being writer-in-residence at the Tate Modern in London ( 2007 / 08 ).

During the 1820s, Thornton was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.

He has been the recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowship awards, including the prestigious Creative Artist Fellowship by the Japan-U. S.

After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre in 1994, he appeared in several stage productions, serving a two-year apprenticeship with the prestigious Stratford Festival in Ontario.

In 1931 he was invited to the prestigious Academy of Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he studied with Leonid Kreutzer.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, best known for the annual Emmy Awards, remembers the contributions of Jenkins to the television industry by naming one of the academy ’ s most prestigious awards after him.

During the 1820s, Crawford was a member of the prestigious society Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( American Academy ) is one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research in the United States.

During the 1820s, Wilkes was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, which counted among its members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.

During the 1820s, Poinsett was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.