'Minding the shop is too easy for me'

摘要

One of your aims is to reduce workloads. Can you explain? "I could say, 'Delft is in a fantastic position - lef s just carry on as we are and I'll mind the shop.' But that's too easy for me. And I know from experience that if s not in the nature of our staff and students, either. Our community always wants to make progress. To do more and to do it better. Thafs a fine quality, of course, but as a consequence our staff are finding more and more work on their plates. If we want to be a world-class university, and to remain one, we're goingto have to make choices. We'll have to say 'no' to certain things."