It's all about team. Right now, we're trying to work together and move the ball quick.

What we're trying to do is make sense of this rash of standards. We're constantly being audited from all sides. We do our best to set priorities. The message, though, is that ROI has nothing to do with perceived value of assets. It's about protecting assets and maintaining consumer confidence.

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

We know there are many issues facing the state right now. We're just trying to keep ours on the front burner.

We're trying to find the right pieces to the puzzle.

Right now we're trying to work with faculty and professors about what to do with our classes.