You will find on the site weekly articles written for seven newspapers in Southern Illinois that express ideas and views of the power of higher education, and its impact on society. Thank You for taking the time to visit.
I share with you this simple thought:
Governments cannot make universities by enactments of laws: Nor corporations by erections of edifices: The church cannot create them under the authority of heaven: The flattering eulogies of orators cannot adorn them with learning: Newspapers cannot puff them into being. Learned men-scholars- these are the only workmen who can build up universities. Provide charters and endowments- the necessary protection and capital – provide books and apparatus- the necessary tools: Then seek out sufficient scholars, and leave them to their work, as the intellectual engineers who alone are competent to do it.
–Henry P. Tappan (1805-1881) President, University of Michigan 1858, lecture, Christian Library Association 22 June, quoted in Richard Hofstadter and William Smith (eds.) American Higher Education: A Documentary History Volume II 1961, p. 519
I was very impressed with your article “Public Leadership vs. private morality.” Well said. At our university, our President had an extended discussion with her senior administrators about the importance of doing the right thing and reporting wrong things, and asked that the message be carried throughout the various administrative units.