We have a great financial aid department ... that makes sure that no student is prevented from attending college based on money issues.

What has transpired over the last several years ... is a reduction in our state appropriation as an overall percentage of our budget.

In projecting the needs of the institution, it became clear a tuition increase was needed to maintain service to an increasing number of students.

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.

When you go to college, your NBA value seems to go down. You can't get better when you go to college? That's absurd, ... The longer you stay in college, the more you grow and become a better player. Each year, I've improved, and I want to continue to get better.

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.