Zitat des Tages von Gordon Gee:
I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.
I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.
College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.
Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'
When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.
The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
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 simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.
Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.
You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.
Every time I get a lot of money, I cry, and I got a lot of tears left.
We play very fine schools on any given day.
The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.
I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
I'm probably one of most quotable guys in America.
I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.
I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.
What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.
I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.
