We must strengthen our collective commitment to ensure that the human spirit prevails in all its diversity. We need to invest our time, our efforts, and our resources, to ensure that the creative spirit will remain free and forever a part of our essential existence. And then art can truly become the ethic of humanity. Our days must be guided by our creativity. We only need imagination.
Excellence means to raise oneself, to surpass, to rise, to project.
Excellence means an unyielding commitment to never being satisfied with what we have achieved, to be open to new possibilities, to always strive further. Excellence means to be recognized for our extraordinary skills, curiosity, innovation, and creativity. This university through its rigor, its discipline, its commitment embodies excellence. I have had the privilege of spending the last three months talking to different members of the university community. And together we have come to the conclusion that this is truly a unique institution, completely deserving to be recognized for its numerous and significant achievements.