He puts faculty and staff, and sometimes students and alumni on every committee. Each one is important to us. Of course the faculty and staff work with us to make this view a shared experience. Evidence of this is easy to find. For example, the door to the President' s Office is made of glass, not wood.
People drop in to say hello as often as they come by with problems.
He chides administrators who leave their office doors closed . Such a plan keeps him tied up on weekends, too. Nearly every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, passersby see the lights on in the President's Office. Naturally he knows security personnel by their first names. To this president, everything.