On the pragmatic level what's very important, too, is that these centers have staffs. They, in fact, can make publicity. They can advertise programs. So what I would say is that we see really that these humanities institutes, in terms of their primary function, their primary function can really be to seed new knowledge in the liberal arts. This to me is very, very important, and ideally I would say I see these humanities centers and institutes, again, broadly located across the spectrum of universities and not just research universities in the United States as a nucleus for innovation, in fact, in the liberal arts.
Faculty go to committees all across the nation and at their home institutions.
And we worked out in a group the idea that, in fact, faculty members should really turn their heads around and begin to conceive of themselves as having a responsibility to the public that this was their fourth quadrant, so to speak, or their fourth portfolio, and to understand themselves as developing a way, in fact, to speak at libraries or at their home institutions as public scholars, not as public intellectuals, which is very different. We really wanted to define this instead as a public scholar. And, of course, Jamie, you spoke about this in terms of humanities councils across the state. This is exactly the sort of thing that humanities councils are encouraging as well and exactly what you were talking about in terms of scholars associated with every grant finding a way to communicate the results of that work and that research to a larger public. Now I'd like to make just a few specific remarks.