Joel Seligman Quotations

Most of our schools and other divisions have taken concrete steps to determine how they can support university students whose families have felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina, ... Several are accommodating students from Gulf Coast colleges whose plans have been entirely disrupted this fall.

We will have tuition increases over time. There is no commitment to any particular level. We will in part respond to the realities of the marketplace.

This was, I think, a very appropriate response by this hospital to say to the community, 'We are here for you. We will have doctors for you whether you have insurance or not,'

The most important thing I will be doing this year, other than the listening tour, is to begin strategic planning. In effect, I am asking each school, typically working with alumni, students and administrators, to focus hard on where we are going. Not just where we want to be a year from now, but what are the real stretch goals?

It's not so much the law as the sociology of the board. By and large, most people expect they are going to continue with the same management company. You assume it's their fund.

It's pretty clear what (Cox) is saying. He's saying San Francisco got way out ahead of itself.

An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many of those patients end up spending 10 to 15 hours in the emergency room while tests are done and we keep watch on them.