Kenneth Thompson Quotes (8 Quotes)

If the university takes seriously the idea of globalization and becoming aware of what's going on throughout the world, it would seem to me that it's a missed opportunity to disallow Loyola Chicago faculty from teaching in Rome, ... You're cutting off one possible way of encouraging a global education for your faculty.

It's a risk, especially when the hiring is done by the dean over there, who is not an expert in all these different fields in which courses will be offered, ... I assume that in a well-run academic institution the people who are hired to teach the various areas are selected by peers in those areas.

When I was chairman of the philosophy department, one of the reasons some faculty applied to Loyola was precisely because of the opportunity to teach at the Rome Center,

(Como) has that wild caveman look. Mine is G.Q. smooth right here.

I'm looking for big things out of a lot of the freshmen and expect a lot of good leadership out of the sophomores.

If you make any noise, we kill you.

In the history of the Rome Center, there's always been a kind of tug between Chicago and Rome, ... The people who are in charge of the Rome Center feel as though they're under constraints from Chicago and the people in Chicago want to treat the Rome Center as if that's an extension of our school here.... If it's true that no full-time faculty are going over there at all ... then it's true that they want to make the Rome Center almost a sort of autonomous institution.

Most Red Cross volunteers are members of congregations. I've rarely met any who weren't. And people are donating all kinds of foodstuffs, clothing and other supplies to the shelters that are near them instead of taking them to their churches,