A university must not have dominant ways of thinking. No university can thrive unless each member is accepted as an autonomous individual and can speak and will be listened to without regard to labels and stereotypes. Fifth, a university's freedom must be the freedom to speak plainly, without concealment and to the point - that is, without endless hedgings and escape clauses. As Jordan wrote, Hutten was a man not of free thought only, but of free speech, and knew no concealment. Sixth, a university's freedom should include the freedom to take pleasure in the life of the mind.
Studies blossom and the minds move.
I am sometimes asked these days whether teaching will be one of my priorities as president. Of course, it will. As will be research. The question is well meant, but ill conceived. This search to know takes place in the classroom, in the library, in the laboratory, in the study.