We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.

In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.