On the eve of his seventh and final year as president, the CWN sat down with President Hugo Sonnenschein to discuss his accomplishments, his decision to resign and the direction that the University is headed. Before I came here, I respected and admired it from afar. I knew that it represented the academic values that I cherished.
Every university president faces dilemmas and has to make tough decisions.
I think what you do is you understand in the beginning that the interests of a university are academic. There's no balancing. There are financial instruments that make what you're trying to do possible, that's where the finances come in. So financial is never balanced with academic. Academic is what the University is about.