In this, my own first year as president of The American University of Paris, I have learned that becoming a leader is something like fixing an airplane while you are flying it. It is the hardest work I have ever done. But I have also learned that there is nothing on this earth that I would rather be doing...

In the next five years, [...] I fully expect AUP to be a recognized and renowned “world university” with an international faculty and student body, a cross-cultural, comparative and contemporary curriculum that is marked by innovative interdisciplinarity, with an elegant campus in and of the city of Paris...

I see AUP becoming most fully itself with a curriculum built around the cross cultural and the comparative, providing an education of the highest rigor to future global citizens.  In the years ahead, I hope to preside over an AUP that is better resourced, that has a renovated, expanded campus in the 7th, and that has become internationally known...

What, ultimately, will separate good universities from great ones in our present global era? It is not, I believe, the criteria of the rankings, all those things we call “inputs,” not the facilities, not the number of books in the library, not the size of the endowment, not even the number of publications of their faculties, but their capacity to develop the world citizenship of their students...