If we compare our graduation rate to top-tier universities, it clearly needs some attention. He noted that the University of Virginia's graduation rate is 92 percent, while Tech's is 69 percent, and that the University of California-Berkeley has 10 Nobel Prize winners while Tech has none. He emphasized that the Institute must become more strategic if it is to sustain its momentum, and he identified excellence across all schools and colleges as an important goal. Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Technology is ubiquitous.
Computing is pervasive. Internet plus information equals unlimited access. Talent is dominant. The population is diversified. Entrepreneurs have the edge.