Something To Consider

"Can you think of any healthy, stable democracy anywhere in the world that is not nourished by strong and independent universities? Or the reverse question: Can you think of any authoritarian regime that tolerates academic freedom and independent universities? There is, I would argue, an inextricable link between long-term, steady democracies and strong universities, so too, with sustained economic development."

- Jonathan Fanton, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation