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杨澜访谈录：李·鲍林格.在美国当校长 Lee Bollinger: I believe being a university president, at least in the United States, is one of the most difficult jobs. L: When you are defended in a lawsuit, its very hard to find friends. L: I think the great success of American higher education is this proliferation of many different kinds of universities. Y: Welcome to China again. L: Thank you very much. Y: We know that you have set up a committee for “Global Thoughts”. What have you found so far and what kinds of inspirations has China given you for this trip? L: Right. So as you said, we set up a committee on Global Thoughts, and the idea is centrally that we are facing, in this world today, changes that we are just not adequately studying and educating students on. And whats happening in China today... I mean, I visited here every few years. Its extraordinary. I mean, to the United States, it is simply stunning how China has developed. This poses an enormous set of questions for the world and for China and the United States. We need to have students educated in those issues and we need faculties to be doing research on them. That is what the committee of Global Thoughts supposed to do. Y: Colombia ranks as No.9 in the National Ranking of American Leading Colleges, 2 positions advanced than a year ago. Congratulations first! But then, how much do you care about ranking and what do you think has contributed to the improvement? L: First of all, we dont care about those rankings. Secondly, we do care about the rank. We dont care because most of these rankings take account of things that we dont particularly value as signs of whether you are a great university or not. Y: Such as? L: Well, I mean, we value alumni’s contributing to the university, but I dont think thats a real major of how well a student has been educated. So, universities are very complicated places that, you know, its very hard to rank them in these ways. And we do care about them because so many people pay attention to them.