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

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 not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

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

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.