Scott Cowen Quotes (20 Quotes)

It's not only important for Tulane to come back, it's important for the city of New Orleans to come back, ... We don't want to be an oasis in an otherwise desolate land.

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

We were talking at a very high level of conversation about principles and values. It's another thing to come up with real solutions. I'm only speaking personally, but if the solution they come up with is only to add a fifth bowl and a little more access, that is not a successful resolution of the issues.

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

The new model would fundamentally transform the look and feel of the New Orleans public schools. You hear the phrase, 'No child left behind,' I'd like to give meaning to that.

We will have brought back about 25,000 people to the parish. We have restaurant owners and store owners who every day thank me for us being open because they're seeing their business picking up dramatically.

I think we have to have a very comprehensive plan to rebuild the city,

The BCS presidents realized there was a public desire that we resolve this ourselves rather than decide it in courts or in Congress, ... We all put aside our egos and said, 'Let's come up with something.'

I deeply regret that employee reductions were necessary to secure the university's future. We have tried to make the reductions as strategically and humanely as possible, recognizing the hardship it places on those whose positions have been terminated.

We have to have a whole new mind-set about how we approach public education. If we can get our heads around true transformation, we can turn it around.

There's nothing in common about this model and what was in existence pre-Katrina.

We have an opportunity of a lifetime Out of adversity to create a school system that would be the envy of people around the country.

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face and name of Tulane University during this difficult time and we have worked out an arrangement within the context of the overall plan. This is made possible once again with assistance and generosity from colleges and universities -- those in Conference USA and those outside of the conference -- who have generously offered to help keep our teams together by providing not only academic opportunities but also practice facilities, playing facilities and general support.

It is difficult to describe what this situation feels like for those involved. It is surreal and unfathomable. But I hope you will be patient and understanding of our situation as we work our way through the complexities.

One could make a case for all five of those teams matching up with our criteria. The net result, I think, is Conference USA is going to be stronger than it is today in terms of alignment.

In any case, the fallout from the failed plan seems to have been limited, said Tulane University President Scott Cowen, who serves on the mayor's rebuilding committee. We have to develop a bigger plan for the city and figure out how the pieces fall into that plan, ... He floated that as an idea. One can say he shouldn't have floated it. But I think when he floats an idea and it doesn't get a lot of positive reaction, he'll say, 'OK, let's try something else.'

Speed is the most important thing to keep in mind, because we have a city that was decimated,

This is a model that is starting to emerge in America, and we could be the first to bless it.

We believe that chartering is a very good short-term intervention given our situation, but it's not a long-term solution to running a medium- or large-scale school district.

The level of criticism is fairly warranted. So you either do it the right way, which involves a playoff, or you go back to where there was no pretense that there was somebody matched together playing for the national championship. You just played the bowls, and the pollsters ranked 'em however they wanted and we lived with the controversy.