Institutions are touted as best which have the newest and greatest facilities, the most expensive and most enviable technology centers, and the biggest endowments to attract the best and the brightest.
Fund raising is said to occupy seventy-five percent of the time of American college presidents.
Now such measures may be worthy of note. I confess that I am quick to tout the latest stories of successful Dana graduates, and we have many. Yet, I find it more satisfying when success is also measured in service to humankind. I also wish that a college could be measured for how it inspires its graduates. For example, for me the thing I value most about my Dana experience is that I acquired a love of learning which has continued throughout my life.