The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amou…

- Henry Rosovsky

I focus on faculty, as opposed to facilities, budgets, endowments or students. I do so because I believe, based on many decades of work as a teacher,…

- Henry Rosovsky

Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved directly in…

- Henry Rosovsky

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered…

- Henry Rosovsky

That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence. In the case of Harva…

- Henry Rosovsky

Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either it is minist…

- Henry Rosovsky

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thi…

- Henry Rosovsky

As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published…

- Henry Rosovsky

If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the que…

- Henry Rosovsky