1. Universities are especially good at thinking different.

2. Global problems require global partners.

3. Our variety supports our strength. United there little we cannot accomplish.

4. Knowledge emerges from debate, from disagreement, from questions, from doubt,from recognizing that every path must be open because any path might yield an answer.

5.Universities must be places where any and every topic can be broached, where any and every question can be asked.

6. Seeing beyond the horizon has been higher learning's special concern.

7. Universities must nurture such debate because discovery comes from the intellectual freedom to explore that rests at the heart of how we define our fundamental identity and values.

8. A third necessity is training students who will ask and answer big questions.

9. We expose students to diverse points of view.

10. The deepest knowledge joins with the freshest point of view.