I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.

I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.