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Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

I love this university, and although I might be retiring from the presidency, my work with Ohio State will continue.

Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.